Event Detail Information
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NEW WRITING SERIES: Peter Gizzi & Elizabeth Willis |
| Start Date: | 10/19/2005 |
| End Date: | 10/19/2005 |
| Event Time: | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM |
| Title: | NEW WRITING SERIES: Peter Gizzi & Elizabeth Willis |
| Location: | |
| Other Location: | Visual Arts Performance Space |
| Event Category: | Lectures/Seminars |
| Sponsor: | Div of Arts & Humanities, Dept of Literature, Mandeville Special Collections, Muir Provost |
| Open to Public: | YES |
| Admission Cost: | Free |
| Contact Name: | Rae Armantrout |
| Contact Phone: | (858) 534-4618 Ext. |
| Contact Email: | rarmantrout@ucsd.edu |
| Description: | Peter Gizzi grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His poetry collections include Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Periplum and Other Poems 1987-1992 (Salt, 2004), and Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998). His editing projects include O€blek: a journal of language arts and The House that Jack Built: the Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998). Critic Marjorie Perloff has written, “Gizzi is master of the mot juste and of sound structure.†He is the recipient of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship. Elizabeth Willis is the author of three books of poetry, including The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995), which was selected for the National Poetry Series, and Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003). A fourth collection and a critical book are currently in progress. Willis was awarded a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002 and a Howard Foundation Fellowship for Poetry in 2004. She teaches at Wesleyan University. |
