In 2023, Gibson was named Colorado’s tenth state poet laureate, a role created to promote poetry appreciation in the state and honor local wordsmiths.

Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ova...

“And because I knew I wasn’t allowed/to spend four years studying only my jump shot,/I said, ‘I guess I’ll learn/to write some poems/while I’m here.’ ”