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 cancer.

Iwasnever formally introduced to Andrea Gibson’s poetry. They just felt like kin from the beginning, like a queer cousin I always knew.

When the poet Andrea Gibson learned two years ago that their ovarian cancer was incurable, the news marked a turning point; ...

Gibson, who died this week, valued live performance and emotionally resonant language.

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 ...

Andrea Gibson, a poet known for their ability to drill into the details of a moment and to draw those experiences out in captivating spoken word performances, died July 14.

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 ...