<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Dear All--</span></font></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">just a reminder that Peter Gizzi reads tonight:</span></font></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></b></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Peter Gizzi<br>Thursday, November 5</span></font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> at 7:00, LC 317<br></span></font><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Peter Gizzi’s books include </span></font><a href="http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6736-1.html"><em><font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Outernationale</font></span></font></font></em></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">, </span></font><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=YqxbUTEKx68C&dq=Some+Values+of+Landscape+and+Weather&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=d1cqCfTmn5&sig=q9IcEfS99lrQknDzOhNRJoihqvE&hl=en&ei=NdG7Su-kDYv6MKffpbcO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false"><em><font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Some Values of Landscape and Weather</font></span></font></font></em></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">, </span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Artificial Heart</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">, and </span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Periplum and other poems 1987-92</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">. His many honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the editor of </span></font><a href="http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6339-0.html"><em><font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer</font></span></font></font></em></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> and, with Kevin Killian, of </span></font><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=J_lC5ntXuEwC&dq=My+Vocabulary+Did+This+To+Me:+The+Collected+Poetry+of+Jack+Spicer&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=SmEchBGmi6&sig=ZJ9mIr22MWVDcccGCEtNSJRxB4U&hl=en&ei=JtK7Soa0BoGyNsX6qLcO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false"><em><font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer</font></span></font></font></em></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">. Currently he teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.</span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Presented by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium and the Graduates Poets’ Reading Series.</span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Tomorrow, he meets with the WGCP from 3-5 in room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center. All are welcome!</span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Also a last footnote: Jennifer Gross sends along the Van Gogh image below: </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> she wanted to follow up her point at our last session about Gizzi's poem "Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures," and how the cadence and imagery in it reminded her of this very specific Van Gogh, the very last painting he made in his life. Specifically, Jennifer was also thinking in terms of the bifurcation of the painting (along the horizon) and the way Gizzi's poem reverses the lines of the first half in the second half of the poem, so that the poem, as well as the painting, have a sutured effect.</span></font></p></span></div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>