Andrea Gibson documentary offers a tender look at love, loss and legacy

Driving the news: "Come See Me in the Good Light," a film tracing how Gibson's terminal diagnosis reshaped their art, worldview and daily life with their wife, poet Megan Falley, began streaming on Apple TV in mid-November.

• It approaches mortality head-on in Gibson's distinctive voice — radically tender, wry and hopeful.

The big picture: Beginning in January 2024, filmmakers visited the couple's Longmont home one week a month. What unfolds is both mundane and meaningful: poems and treatments, backyard birdwatching, mailbox hijinks, and the anxiety of test results and doctors appointments.

Flashback: Archival clips from Gibson's Boulder years — including strolls down Pearl Street Mall — root the story in the Front Range landscape where their voice took shape.

• For decades, Gibson was a force in the national slam poetry scene, exploring gender, heartbreak, depression and queer politics before sold-out crowds.

• In 2023, Gov. Jared Polis appointed Gibson Colorado's Poet Laureate.

The latest: A new poetry collection, "Begin Where You Are," gathers writing from all of Colorado's poets laureate, including never-before-seen work from Gibson, the Denver Post reports.

Between the lines: The collection arrives at a pivotal moment. In April, Colorado Humanities, the nonprofit that oversees the poet laureate program, warned it could face closure after losing federal funding.

• Proceeds from book sales will help fund Colorado's poet laureate program.