{"id":940,"date":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/peter-gizzi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:00:39","slug":"peter-gizzi","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/peter-gizzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gizzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gizzi was born in Alma, Michigan. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including: <em>Now It\u2019s Dark <\/em>(2020); <em>Archeophonics<\/em> (2016), a finalist for the National Book Award; <em>Threshold Songs<\/em> (2011); <em>In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987\u20132011<\/em> (2014); and <em>Sky Burial: New &amp; Selected Poems<\/em> (Carcanet Press 2020). In 2018, his work was the subject of <em>In the Air: Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi<\/em> (Wesleyan). Gizzi\u2019s honours include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and fellowships in poetry from the Howard Foundation, the Rex Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has been a Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University twice, and has taught at Brown University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Program at Naropa, and elsewhere. He lives in Holyoake, Massachusetts.\u00a0<em>Author photo \u00a9 Carol Lollis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gizzi was born in Alma, Michigan. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including: Now It\u2019s Dark (2020); Archeophonics (2016), a finalist for the National Book Award; Threshold Songs (2011); In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987\u20132011 (2014); and Sky Burial: New &amp; Selected Poems (Carcanet Press 2020). In 2018, his work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9395,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-940","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}