POLYply: Peter Gizzi and Drew Milne

Peter Gizzi is author of The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and Periplum (Avec Books, 1992; republished by Salt, 2004). His editing projects have included oblék: a journal of language arts (1987-1993), The Exact Change Yearbook (Exact Change/Carcanet, 1995), The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998), and My Vocabulary Did This to Me: TheCollected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 2008). He is the poetry editor for The Nation.

Drew Milne's books of poetry include Go Figure (2003); Mars Disarmed (2002); The Damage: new and selected poems (2001); Bench Marks (1998); andSheet Mettle (1994). He edits the occasional imprint Parataxis Editions, and has also edited Modern Critical Thought (2003);and, with Terry Eagleton, Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader (1996).He is the Judith E Wilson Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. http://drewmilne.tripod.com/

Time: 7:00pm