Poet Andrea Gibson, Candid Explorer of Life, Death and Politics, Dies at 49

In Memory of Andrea Gibson, We Revisit Eight of Their Life-Affirming Poems

The beloved spoken-word poet died of cancer this week at age 49.

‘A Portal to Here’: Andrea Gibson Brought Theology Down From the Clouds

I don’t remember how I first came to know of Andrea Gibson. I do know ever since I have been aware of them, I have understood they were dying of an incurable cancer growing in their beautiful, brilliant body.   Bodies are tough companions. We need them. We love them. Or, maybe we hate them. But either way, all our experiences, if they exist anywhere at all, exist within them. And we each, over time, become quite accustomed to our surroundings. B…

Andrea Gibson taught us how to grieve — and how to resist this political moment

Andrea Gibson, the poet laureate of Colorado and one of America’s best contemporary poets, died on Monday at age 49, after navigating an ovarian cancer diagnosis for the last four years.

Poet Andrea Gibson reads 'Love Letter From the Afterlife' to fiancée just months before dying

For Andrea Gibson, life was a poem—a beautifully complex spectrum of gender, time, and life itself. Gibson (who used they/them pronouns) was a poet, an activist, a filmmaker, a friend—but most of all—an inspiration to anyone on this planet who dares to push back against the societal constructs which are woven into us at such an early age. See on Instagram Comedian Tig Notaro sat down with them for Interview Magazine in which Gibson shone through…

Andrea Gibson Refused to ‘Battle’ Cancer

The last years of the poet’s life were among their most joyful.

Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson dies at 49, leaves ‘Love Letter from the Afterlife’

In the months leading up to their death, Gibson, who was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer in 2021, had been writing about mortality, joy, and the intimacy of impermanence.