Peter Gizzi Poetry Reading

Professor Gizzi's poetry reading will take place from 5.30 to 7.00 in The Watson Room, Kennedy Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.

PETER GIZZI is the author of many collections of poetry, most recently, Fierce Elegy (2023), Now It's Dark (2020); Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award (2016), Threshold Songs (2011); and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011 (2014). In 2020 Carcanet brought out Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems. Penguin UK published Fierce Elegy in 2024. His honours include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets, and fellowships in poetry from The Rex Foundation, The Fund for Poetry, The Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and The Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Cambridge. In 2018 Wesleyan UP published In the Air: Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi. His editing projects have included o*blēk:
a journal of language arts (1986-93); The Exact Change Yearbook (1995); The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (1998); and, with Kevin Killian, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008). From 2007 to 2012 he was the poetry editor for The Nation. He teaches poetry and poetics in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

For further information please contact:
Anne Boyer [email protected]
Oli Hazzard [email protected]
David Herd [email protected]