Peter Gizzi
- January 10, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Peter Gizzi |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Date Of Birth | Aug 7, 1959(1959-08-07) |
| Age | 65 |
| Birthplace | Alma |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Michigan |
| Horoscope | Leo |
Peter Gizzi Biography
| Name | Peter Gizzi |
| Birthday | Aug 7 |
| Birth Year | 1959 |
| Place Of Birth | Alma |
| Home Town | Michigan |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Leo |
| Siblings | Michael Gizzi, Tom Gizzi |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Willis |
Peter Gizzi is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on August 7, 1959 in Alma, Michigan, United States. Peter Gizzi (born 1959 in Alma, Michigan) is a famous American poet writer, essayist, editor and educator. He studied at New York University, Brown University as well as at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
In 1992, Peter Gizzi published his first full-length work, “Periplum” which won reviews of praise. The collection is followed up with “Artificial Heart”, a collection that helped to establish Gizzi’s status as a lyricist who writes as a contemporary troubadour in an allusive style and obscure.
Gizzi has taught at Brown University and The University of California, Santa Cruz. Since 2001, he has been a professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts Amherst. For several years, he was poetry editor at The Nation. He also is on the contributing editorial board to the literary journal Conjunctions. He is the brother of deceased poet Michael Gizzi; his other brother, Tom, a professional musician, died in 2019.
In 2003, “Some Values of Landscape and Weather” was published. The title poem of this collection is “a sustained examination of the relationship between public and private spaces, as well as a complex reflection on war”.
He began editing the lectures in 1991. began editing the Jack Spicer’s lectures for publication. He was accepted into SUNY Buffalo with support from Robert Creeley, Charles Bernstein along with Susan Howe, “and with the financial support (meager as it was) that working within an institution offered.” In 1993 after twelve issues and eight years He left o*blek the company soon dissolved.
Peter Gizzi Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Peter Gizzi is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Gizzi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In the latter half of the 1980s He was working at the tables while reading and editing O*blek: a journal for the arts of language, which was founded in 1987 by him and Connell McGrath.
In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011
In 1994 he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets (selected by John Ashbery). Gizzi has also held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, The Foundation of French Literature at Royaumont, Un Bureau Sur L’Atlantique, and the Centre International de Poesie Marseille. He has received fellowships from the Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (1998), and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In the spring of 2011, Gizzi held the position of Poet-in-Residence in the English Faculty of the University of Cambridge. In 2016 Archeophonics was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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