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Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of four poetry collections: The New Economy; Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry; Apocalyptic Swing, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist; and The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Connecticut Book Award Winner and Northern California Book Award Finalist. More about this author >
A devotional to the ungendered vessel as it ages, dreams, and survives. A practice of radical collaboration, failure, and renewal. A world of “Miss You” poems opening a portal to all those we’ve lost and would love to visit for a while. In Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s latest collection, The New Economy, poems are haunted by the ghosts of loved ones and childhood memories, by changing landscapes and bodies. Calvocoressi’s own figure is examined—investigating the desire to protect the body one is born with and the longing to have been born in another. Cisterns sing with the musicality of a poet who understands both the power of sound and silence—those quiet spaces inviting us to consider the words we cannot hear. “The days I don’t kill myself are extraordinary” one poem says. “Why don’t we have a name for it?”
The New Economy invites us to name our fears and sorrows, to write to who or what has left us, to create practices that can hold both the darkness and light of this (in)finite life.
A meditation on the aging, ungendered body, Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s The New Economy interrogates childhood memory, great loss, and the longing to both protect one’s body and inhabit another. Calvocoressi’s poetic cisterns hold grief, joy, and yearning—resonant spaces where absence echoes and beauty endures. With lyrical precision and emotional depth, this incandescent collection explores transformation, resilience, and the quiet power of persistence. An unflinching reflection on what it means to endure and to remain.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi at the 2025 National Book Awards Finalist Reading
