Celebrating Andrea Gibson's poetry

Back in July, I posted a couple of items here about Andrea Gibson, Colorado's poet laurate, who had recently died of ovarian cancer at 49. I also nominated the queer, non-binary poet's first collection, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, for our 2026 reading list, but it came up short in the voting. (Democracy doesn't always work! :-).

I had only read the first few pages of the book then, but now that I've finished it, I highly recommend Gibson's work to you. These poems are all brief (the longest is three pages), but pack a real punch. The same is true of "Come See Me in the Good Light," an award-winning documentary that follows Gibson and their wife Megan Falley in the aftermath of Gibson's terminal cancer diagnosis. Anything but maudlin, it's simply one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. It's currently streaming on Apple+ TV.