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When the poet Andrea Gibson learned two years ago that their ovarian cancer was incurable, the news marked a turning point; ...
Gibson was an artist and activist, whose spoken word poetry captivated millions and defied the hyperindividualism that ...
As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson ...
Author Andrea Gibson, best known for their spoken word poetry and LGBTQ activism, died after a four-year battle with ovarian ...
Andrea had a unique ability to offer their readers and listeners a way of living, to show us how much we need tenderness, and ...
Gibson, who died this week, valued live performance and emotionally resonant language.
Iwasnever formally introduced to Andrea Gibson’s poetry. They just felt like kin from the beginning, like a queer cousin I always knew.
Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The literary world has lost two writers, including a celebrated poet. Andrea Gibson, who used the pronoun they, explored gender identity, ...
Andrea Gibson died on July 14. I admired their poetry, most especially their bravery to accept their mortality after learning ...
Here’s a fact that will ruffle some hollers: poetry is not only for silent classrooms or forgotten bookshelves. For Andrea Gibson, it was a lifeline a method to rage, love, and live out loud. The 2025 ...
O n July 14, beloved spoken-word poet Andrea Gibson died of cancer at their home in Colorado at age 49. A powerful voice in queer letters, Gibson innately understood poetry to be ...
Andrea Gibson was a celebrated poet and spoken word artist who wrote about love, queerness and death. They recently passed ...