[Yale-readings] Sat. June 23, Noon: ROSE GARDEN READING, Lonnie Black & Peter Gizzi

[Kuhl, Nancy]

2012 ROSE GARDEN READING

Featuring poets Lonnie Black and Peter Gizzi

Saturday June 23, Noon

Pond House, Elizabeth Park, Hartford CT



Lonnie Black was the driving force behind Northeast Magazine’s interest

in and publication of poetry and has been named co-founder of the

Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. Named a Master Teacher Artist by the

Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Lonnie has served as poet in the

classroom on every level from elementary through post-secondary. Lonnie

lectures and conducts creative writing workshops/master classes

throughout Connecticut. He is also an English As-A-Second Language

Instructor and Creative Writing Instructor for Litchfield Performing

Arts. In 1991 Mr. Black became Poetry Director of Artworks Gallery and

created the program of 'Three Connecticut Poets' and he’s now carrying

the program (in its twentieth year) at the West Hartford Art League.



Peter Gizzi is the author of several collections of poetry, including

Threshold Songs (2011), The Outernationale (2007), and Artificial Heart

(1998). He has been poetry editor for The Nation as well as founding

co-editor, with Connell McGrath, of o•blék: a journal of language arts.

He has also edited The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of

Jack Spicer (1998), and has co-edited My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The

Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008) with Kevin Killian. Gizzi has

won the Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of

American Poets as well as fellowships from t he Howard Foundation, the

Rex Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the

Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at

Amherst.



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Free Event.

Part of the Rose Festival at Elizabeth Park in Hartford

http://www.elizabethpark.org/rose_weekend.htm



This event bought to you by the Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens

http://www.stevenspoetry.org



For more info contact Jim Finnegan

JforJames at aol.com<mailto:JforJames at aol.com>

860-508-2810

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