Peter Gizzi

Poet, editor and teacher Peter Gizzi visits the PRB at 2220 for a weekend residency, kicking things off on Saturday night with a solo reading, followed by a session of "Late Listening" – a freewheeling conversation where we listen to records, read poems and talk about Peter's work and those of friends and other writers until the night wraps up.

Doors at 7, reading at 7:30, talk and records at 9pm.

PETER GIZZI is the author of eight collections of poetry including Archeophonics, Threshold Songs, and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books.

Peter's latest collection is Now It's Dark, a set of poems concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion." With litany, elegy, and prose, Gizzi continues his pursuit toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with luminous detail, these original poems possess, even in their sorrowing moments, a dizzying freedom. He lives in Holyoke, MA.