John Ashbery Poetry Series and Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading with Peter Gizzi

On Monday, March 2, at 5:30pm in the Campus Center North Multipurpose Room, poet Peter Gizzi will read from his work. This reading is free and open to the public.

Peter Gizzi is the author of many collections of poetry, including Fierce Elegy (2023), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award, Now It's Dark (2020), Archeophonics (2016), a finalist for the National Book Award, Threshold Songs (2011), and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011 (2014), a finalist for the LA Times Book Award. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. Marjorie Perloff has called him "a master of the mot juste and of sound structure;" Robert Creeley, "one of the most exceptional poets of his generation." Adrienne Rich has said "his disturbing lyricism is like no other;" and John Ashbery thought him "the most exciting new poet to come along in quite a while." He lives in Holyoke, MA.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: North Campus Center, Multipurpose Room

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