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	History of the Plutzik Reading Series Dannie Abse Edward Albee John Ashberry James Baldwin Toni Cade Bambara John Barth Dan Beachy-Quick Madison Smartt Bell John Berryman Linda Bierds Elizabeth Bishop Gwendolyn Brooks J. M. Coetzee Robert Coover Robert Creeley Robertson Davies Lydia Davis Kathryn Davis Samuel Delany James Dickey Daniel Donaghy Beverly Donofrio Rita Dove Rikki Ducornet Ralph Ellison Clayton Eshleman Brian Evenson Alan Ginsberg Dana Gioia Joy Harjo Matthea Harvey Anthony Hecht John Hollander Maureen Howard Richard Howard Fanny Howe Christine Hume Shelly Jackson LeRoi Jones Erica Jong Ilya Kaminsky Sally Keith Galway Kinnell Maxine Kumin Denise Levertov James Longenbach Robert Lowell Alison Lurie Nathaniel Mackey Gerard Malenga Ben Markus Heather McHugh Christopher Merrill W. S. Merwin Stephen Millhauser Rick Moody Michael Ondaatje Alicia Ostriker Michael Palmer Carl Phillips Tom Piazza Marge Piercy Robert Pinsky Bin Ramke Donald Revell Adrienne Rich Salman Rushdie Joanna Scott Alan Shapiro William De Witt Snodgrass John Updike Helen Vendler Ellen Bryant Voigt Andrei Vosnesensky Derek Walcott Richard Wilbur C K Williams James Wright Charles Wright Dean Young Paul Zimmer Tom Piazza 12 Oct 2005 More about Tom Piazza Tom Piazza was born on Long Island and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Known both as a fiction writer and as a music writer, his work has appeared in many magazines and other publications, including the New York Times, the Oxford American, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, the Village Voice, the Quarterly, Story, and American Short Fiction. His books include the novel My Cold War (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2003), the short-story collection Blues And Trouble (St. Martin's Press, 1996), which won the James Michener Award for Fiction, and The Guide To Classic Recorded Jazz (University of Iowa Press, 1995), which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing. His 1999 book True Adventures With the King of Bluegrass (Country Music Foundation/Vanderbilt University Press), a portrait of bluegrass legend Jimmy Martin, was a finalist for the Ralph J. Gleason Award.
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