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University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

English Department

Faculty Profiles: Peter Gizzi



Contact Information:

487 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-2537
f: 413-545-3880
gizzi@hfa.umass.edu   

 

Professor

Educated at New York University, B.A., 1986, Brown University, M.F.A., 1991, State University of New York at Buffalo, Ph.D., 1997.


Areas of specialty: Modern and Contemporary poetry; creative writing; literary editing; film and visual culture; poetics.

Gizzi is the author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum. His editing projects have included The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, the international literary anthology The Exact Change Yearbook, and o-blek: a journal of language arts . He has been awarded artist grants from The Fund for Poetry, Rex Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. He is also a recipient of the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.

For more information on Professor Gizzi's work, please see http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/gizzi/