[Yale-readings] Poetry Reading: Peter Gizzi at Beinecke Library, October 26th, 4:00 pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

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 at yale.edu.

Peter Gizzi is the author of poetry collections including Some Values of 
Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 
1998), Periplum (Avec, 1992), and several limited and special edition 
chapbooks. He is the editor of Exact Change Yearbook and The House That 
Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer and was the editor of the 
literary journal o-blek: a journal of language arts. 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.

For information about and examples of Peter Gizzi's work visit:
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/gizzi/
http://www.umass.edu/umhome/news/articles/14778.php
http://www.ubu.com/papers/oei/gizzi.html
http://versemag.blogspot.com/2004/12/new-review-of-peter-gizzi.html


For additional information please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or 
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu

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