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Sports Desk [by Gabrielle Calvocoressi]

I am preparing a performance piece in which the curators’ vision is inspired by sports (particularly boxing) and poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi (a friend of one of my fellow LMCC residents, Alicia Jo Rabbins) is approaching a current body of work in much the same fashion.  It’s interesting reading her volume (Apocalyptic Swing) and her blog entries, as they connect with my own upbringing in a rabidly obsessed college football town (GO GATORS!).  For a short time, in my early, early childhood, my father raised me as a single parent and I can still remember snatches of three audio artifacts:  The theme to The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, The spoken intro to Thundarr: The Barbarian, and the sneaker squeak of a professional basketball game. After moving to Gainesville, Florida I was thoroughly indoctrinated into the ways of The Gator and continue to enjoy the melodrama that is collegiate and professional sports (although without a television my exposure has been sporadic).  In either case, I love her depiction of these quintessentially American towns and the nostalgic realities of the John Deere Store…