Peter Gizzi, an author published by Boise State Free Poetry, won the TS Eliot Prize for his collection “Fierce Elegy.” Informed by grief for his two brothers, “Fierce Elegy” received praise from the British poet Mimi Khalvati, Chair of judges, who described Gizzi’s collection as “infinitely sad, yet resolute, and so alive in body and spirit.”
Free Poetry, an independent press run by the Boise State Creative Writing MFA Program, published Gizzi’s “A User’s Guide to the Invisible World: Selected Interviews.” Gizzi also featured in the Fall 2021 Creative Writing MFA Reading Series, giving a reading of his work and meeting with students on campus.
About Free Poetry
Since 2005, with the inaugural publication of Jeremy Hooker’s Reflections on Ground and Seventeen Poems, Free Poetry has been publishing poetry, essays and translations by new and established poets from around the world. All Free Poetry chapbooks are available free of charge and without copyright. Readers are encouraged to photocopy or download these chapbooks and to distribute them ad infinitum. In 2020 Free Poetry began publishing books focusing on Poetics.
About the TS Eliot Poetry Prize
The TS Eliot Foundation each year selects one poetry collection from a shortlist of ten books for the prize. The £25,000 award, one of the most prestigious in the poetry world, goes to “the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland,” according to the Foundation’s website.
Learn more
You can read about the line-up of Spring 2025 writers in the Hemingway Center Reading series here.