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Please join us for a reading by poet Peter Gizzi on Wednesday, October
26th, at 4:00 pm at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121
Wall Street. A reception will follow; this event is free and open to the
public. For additional information about the Yale Collection of American
Literature Reading Series please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu.<br><br>
Peter Gizzi is the author of poetry collections including <i>Some Values
of Landscape and Weather</i> (Wesleyan, 2003), <i>Artificial Heart</i>
(Burning Deck, 1998), <i>Periplum</i> (Avec, 1992), and several limited
and special edition chapbooks. He is the editor of <i>Exact Change
Yearbook</i> and <i>The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of
Jack Spicer </i>and was the editor of the literary journal <i>o-blek: a
journal of language arts</i>. He has been awarded grants from The Fund
for Poetry, the Rex Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the Foundation
for Contemporary Performance Arts. In 1994, he received the prestigious
Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets. He was
awarded a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. He is currently a professor of English at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.<br><br>
For information about and examples of Peter Gizzi's work visit:<br>
<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/gizzi/" eudora="autourl">
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/gizzi/<br>
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<a href="http://www.umass.edu/umhome/news/articles/14778.php" eudora="autourl">
http://www.umass.edu/umhome/news/articles/14778.php<br>
</a><a href="http://www.ubu.com/papers/oei/gizzi.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ubu.com/papers/oei/gizzi.html<br>
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<a href="http://versemag.blogspot.com/2004/12/new-review-of-peter-gizzi.html" eudora="autourl">
http://versemag.blogspot.com/2004/12/new-review-of-peter-gizzi.html<br>
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</a>For additional information please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu<br><br>
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