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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"PhillyTalks #10"
Featuring Steven Farmer, Peter Gizzi

KWH, University of Pennsylvania | Monday, March 01, 1999; 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Free admission (Reservation not required)

Organized by Louis Cabri
PhillyTalks Series



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Steven Farmer's recent books are World of Shields (w.n.f., 1993) and Medieval (Krupskaya, forthcoming Spring 1999.) More work can be seen in Crayon #2 (ed. Andrew Levy / Bob Harrison, forthcoming any day) and Object (ed. Robert Fitterman, NY.) Educated at the University of California San Diego and Sonoma State University (MA English), he now lives in the Bay Area.

Peter Gizzi was born in 1959 and grew up in western Massachusetts. His publications include Periplum (1992), Music for Films (1992), Hours of the Book (1994), and two recent chapbooks: Ledger Domain (1995) and New Picnic Time (1995). In 1994 he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, selected by John Ashbery. His poems have recently appeared in the Best American Poetry 1995, Sixty Years of American Poetry and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North America Poetry 1993-94 and again in 1995-1996. His editing projects have included o·blêk: a journal of language arts (1987-93) and the Exact Change Yearbook (1995). He currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz.