Join us at 118 Elliot to celebrate Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s poetry collection, The New Economy, alongside Jill Lepore, with opening poet Michael Carter. The heart of The New Economy is the wish to meet new neighbors, to open portals of compassion and kindness and radical possibility.
Free & Open to the public. RSVP here to join the potluck preceding the reading.
We will be accepting nonperishable donations for Foodworks and 69A at the door. See the list of desired items here.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry, The New Economy, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry.
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ‘41 Professor of American History and Professor of Law at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include These Truths: A History of the United States, The Deadline, and most recently, We the People: A History of the Constitution, a New York Times notable book of the year and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2025. She directs Amend, a public archive of proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Much of Lepore’s scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the histories and technologies of evidence.
Michael Carter [bio forthcoming]
Event Contact: morganenglishwrites@gmail.com