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SUMMARY:GRIEF'S UNDERMUSIC: An Elegy Workshop & Reading featuring Peter Gizzi
DESCRIPTION:The Woodberry Poetry Room is proud to partner with The Elegy 
 Project to host a two-part event\, featuring an afternoon elegy-writing 
 workshop and an evening reading by Peter Gizzi\, author of the T. S. Eliot 
 Prize-winning collection Fierce Elegy (Wesleyan\, 2023).\n\n\n3:00-5:00pm: 
 ELEGY WORKSHOP: At a time of profound personal\, cultural\, and political 
 loss\, we will come together to explore poems of mourning and memory\, 
 through a series of writing exercises and provocations that engage with the 
 Poetry Room’s book collection and our own experiences and histories. The 
 workshop will be led by David Sherman (Brandeis University) and Karen 
 Bishop (Rutgers University)\, founders of the non-profit literary 
 initiative The Elegy Project\, which distributes poems in public places as 
 a way to make grief less lonely and our shared world more 
 interesting.\n\nIn-Person Attendance: Woodberry Poetry Room\, Lamont 
 Library\, Room 330. No reservations required\, all poets welcome. Please 
 note: you do not have to participate in the workshop to attend the 
 reading.\n\n \n\n6:00pm: READING BY PETER GIZZI: A special reading by Peter 
 Gizzi\, author of Fierce Elegy\, introduced by Patrick Pritchett.  Book 
 sales provided by Grolier Poetry Book Shop. \n\nIn-Person Attendance: 
 Edison Newman Room\, Houghton Library. Free and open to the public. 
 \n\nOnline Attendance: Livestreaming available via the WPR YouTube 
 Channel.\n\n\n\n \n\nPETER GIZZI is the author of several collections of 
 poetry\, most recently Fierce Elegy (2023) Winner of the Massachusetts Book 
 Award\; Now It’s Dark (2020)\; and Archeophonics (2016)\, a Finalist for 
 the National Book Award\; all from Wesleyan. In the UK\, Carcanet published 
 Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems (2020) and in 2024 Penguin UK published 
 an expanded edition of Fierce Elegy (Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize). His 
 honors include fellowships from The Rex Foundation\, The Howard 
 Foundation\, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, and The Guggenheim 
 Foundation. He has twice been the recipient of The Judith E. Wilson 
 Visiting Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Cambridge. In 2018 
 Wesleyan published In the Air: Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi. He is 
 currently a Senior Global Fellow in Poetry at the University of St. Andrews 
 in Scotland. He teaches poetry and poetics at the University of 
 Massachusetts\, Amherst. \n\n\n\n \n\nPlease contact us with any questions 
 about this event. We can be reached by email at poetryrm@fas.harvard.edu or 
 via phone at (617) 495-2454. We encourage persons with disabilities who 
 would like to request accommodations or have questions about physical 
 access to contact Houghton Library at least three days in advance of the 
 reading.
LOCATION:Houghton Library\, Woodberry Poetry Room (Lamont Library\, Room 330)\, Woodberry Poetry Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary Graham":MAILTO:marywgraham@fas.harvard.edu
CATEGORIES:Reading/Lecture
CONTACT;CN="Mary Graham":MAILTO:marywgraham@fas.harvard.edu
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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