A Reading and Conversation with Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi will be reading from his newly released In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011(Wesleyan University Press, 2014).

Gizzi  is the author of six collections, includingThreshold Songs (2011) and The Outernationale (2007), as well as numerous chapbooks and artist-books. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets, and artist grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Howard Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2011 he was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.