2012
ROSE GARDEN READING
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PETER GIZZI | LONNIE BLACK |
Saturday June 23, Noon
Pond House, Elizabeth Park, Hartford CT
Lonnie Black was the driving force behind Northeast Magazine’s interest
in and publication of poetry and has been named co-founder of the
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. Named a Master Teacher Artist by the Connecticut
Commission on the Arts, Lonnie has served as poet in the classroom on
every level from elementary through post-secondary. Lonnie lectures and
conducts creative writing workshops/master classes throughout Connecticut.
He is also an English As-A-Second Language Instructor and Creative Writing
Instructor for Litchfield Performing Arts. In 1991 Mr. Black became
Poetry Director of Artworks Gallery and created the program of 'Three
Connecticut Poets' and he’s now carrying the program (in its twentieth year)
at the West Hartford Art League.
Peter Gizzi is the author of several collections of poetry, including Threshold Songs (2011),
The Outernationale (2007), and Artificial Heart (1998). He has been poetry editor for The Nation as
well as founding co-editor, with Connell McGrath, of o•blék: a journal of language arts.
He has also edited The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (1998),
and has co-edited My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008) with Kevin Killian.
Gizzi has won the Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets as well as fellowships from t
he Howard Foundation, the Rex Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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