“Rocket Fantastic” Launch with Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Also featuring poet Tyree Daye

Tuesday, September 19th,
5:30 PM

Join us at the Love House & Hutchins Forum as we celebrate the publication of Rocket Fantastic, Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s new book of poetry. Calvocoressi is assistant professor and the Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry in the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill and was recently appointed poetry editor of the journal. Calvocoressi’s honors include a Stegner Fellowship, a Jones Lectureship at Stanford University, and a Rona Jaffe Women Writers’ Award.

Read an excerpt here. And purchase copies of the book at the Rocket Fantastic launch or your favorite local bookstore!

Tyree Daye is from Youngsville, North Carolina, and earned his MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner (for which he received the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award in the Fall 2015 issue), Nashville Review, Four Way Review, and Ploughshares (forthcoming). He is the winner of the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his book River Hymns and the Amy Clampitt Residency for 2018. Daye is a Cave Canem Fellow and longtime member of the editorial staff at Raleigh Review.

FREE | Love House & Hutchins Forum | 410 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC

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