Andrea Gibson
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Sep 23, 2026
Anthony MasonHOST
Yeah.
Sara BareillesGUEST
But Andrea Gibson, the incredible p- poet laureate of Colorado, who I've done a lot of work around-
Anthony MasonHOST
Yeah
Sara BareillesGUEST
...
Mike PayneHOST
All right, welcome back.
Mike PayneHOST
So the first poem that you heard is entitled The Nutritionist, and that was performed by the late great Andrea Gibson.
Mike PayneHOST
The second poem that you heard is entitled As I Am, and that was performed by friend of the podcast, Asia Samson.
Mike PayneHOST
You can follow Asia on Instagram @theasiaproject.
Rebecca SchatzHOST
Grief is the evidence of love.
Rebecca SchatzHOST
Andrea Gibson writes, but I did not meet this life until I met its brevity.
Rebecca SchatzHOST
Did not meet my voice until I knew every word could be my last.
Rebecca SchatzHOST
I did not know what prayer was until I started praying for what I already have.
Sarah FontaineGUEST
Like they just get to be here.
Sarah FontaineGUEST
It's the Andrea Gibson poem that I just keep yelling about the one tincture.
Sarah FontaineGUEST
It's just talking about how like imagining how the soul is so wants to hear from the body when the body dies, like about what it feels like to be on earth incarnated.
Sarah FontaineGUEST
Cause it's so special and it's so special.
Gemma HoskinsGUEST
It's called Come See Me in the Good Light.
Gemma HoskinsGUEST
And it's a story of poet, artist, Andrea Gibson, who was the poet laureate for Colorado.
Gemma HoskinsGUEST
She had a cancer diagnosis.
Gemma HoskinsGUEST
And so the documentary documents the last, I guess, year and a half of her life.
Erin PrestonHOST
Who could that be? Hmm.
Erin PrestonHOST
Literally later that day, I was walking into Red Rocks for the premiere of Andrea Gibson's new film.
Erin PrestonHOST
I got to security, looked over, and there was Mace.
Erin PrestonHOST
The last time I saw her, we were on set for PBS's Human Eye series, and afterwards, we did that thing that a lot of us do and said, hey, we should grab coffee sometime.
Patricia KarpasHOST
What worked, what didn't work, what is the wisdom that is guiding your next choice? And I love what you said about you go from grief to curiosity to learning.
Patricia KarpasHOST
And Andrea Gibson, the poet, said in one of her poems that often we don't know the difference between our gifts and our tragedies.
Patricia KarpasHOST
I found [chuckles] that to be so profound because when you're in it, you can't see what the good is.
Patricia KarpasHOST
But you talk about that quite often is that where you will transition into knowing why this is a good next step.
Anese CavanaughGUEST
Yeah, big time.
Anese CavanaughGUEST
And first of all, I love Andrea Gibson.
Anese CavanaughGUEST
Ugh, oh my God.
Patricia KarpasHOST
[chuckles]
Zach AncellHOST
Yeah.
speaker_0GUEST
And even as I say that, I'm thinking back to this moment earlier this year, I traveled to Colorado to Red Rocks to go to this event called Love Letters from the Afterlife, which was the final performance of Andrea Gibson, who is a poet that I really loved, who died last year.
speaker_0GUEST
I'm
Zach AncellHOST
getting goosebumps hearing you talk about it.
Sara BareillesGUEST
Yeah.
Sara BareillesGUEST
I feel, uh, Andrea Gibson is this incredible poet.
Catherine LawHOST
Mm.
Sara BareillesGUEST
And they, I was involved in this documentary about Andrea and their wife Meg called Come See Me in the Good Light, and I have learned so much from Andrea.
Sara BareillesGUEST
Yeah.
Sara BareillesGUEST
I feel – Andrea Gibson is this incredible poet and they – I was involved in this documentary about Andrea and their wife Meg called Come See Me in the Good Light.
Sara BareillesGUEST
And I have learned so much from Andrea.
Sara BareillesGUEST
Yeah.
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