Poetry & Fiction Series: Peter Gizzi

Join us for a reading by Peter Gizzi, presented as part of the Poetry & Fiction Series. The reading will be delivered virtually and is free and open to the public.

About Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi is the author of Archeophonics (Finalist for the National Book Award, Wesleyan, 2016); In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011 (Wesleyan, 2014); Threshold Songs (Wesleyan, 2011); The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003); Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998); and Periplum (Avec Books, 1992). In 2004 Salt Publishing of England reprinted an expanded edition of his first book as Periplum and other poems 1987-92. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets (1994) and fellowships in poetry from The Fund for Poetry (1993), The Rex Foundation (1993), Howard Foundation (1998), The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1999), and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005). In 2011 he was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. He teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

About the Poetry & Fiction Series at Simon's Rock
For over thirty years the Simon's Rock Poetry & Fiction Series has hosted prominent and upcoming poets and fiction writers, including Seamus Heaney, Annie Proulx, Derek Walcott, John Edgar Wideman, Susan Sontag, Rita Dove, and many more. Open to the community, the readings are preceded by a conversation with Simon's Rock students and followed by a Q & A with the attending audience. Co-coordinated by faculty members Peter Filkins and Brendan Mathews, the series consists of four readings done over the course of each fall semester.

Join the Event (free and open to the public)
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