Peter Gizzi - Western Illinois University

College of Arts and Sciences

Spring 2019 Case Writer: Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Archeophonics (finalist for the 2016 National Book Award), In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011, and Threshold Songs. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, a Howard Foundation Grant, and the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellowship in Poetry at Cambridge University. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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