Friday, April 10th 2026
7-10pm
Family Meal: A Poetry Reading featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Free | RSVP Coming Soon...
A community-based experiential poetry reading & family meal featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Poetry Foundation Fellows, with meal contributions from local chefs.
The 2025 fellows of the Poetry Foundation are Jada Renée Allen, DeeSoul Carson, Andres Cordoba, Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, and Aris Kian.
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Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s new collection of poetry, The New Economy, was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. Other collections include The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing, and Rocket Fantastic, which is the winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. They serve on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets and live in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Visit they website here.
About the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. Among the largest awards offered to young poets in the US, the $27,000 prize is intended to support exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age. The fellowships were established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly and expanded in 2013 with a gift from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. Learn more here.
RSVP goes live on March 16!