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Jeff Gundy Starts 2016 Author’s Nights

The Friends of the Library are again sponsoring a new season of Author’s Nights.  These delightful Friday night events consist of one or more authors - prose, poetry, journaling, storytelling, or any form of the written word! - who read from their works and tell about themselves and their craft.   

Held at Montage Cafe in downtown Greenville, delicious food & drink is available to purchase - come early and have supper or enjoy a glass of wine.  Doors open at 6:00 and the program is at 7:00. To add a festive atmosphere guitarist Bill Westfall and clarinet /saxophonist J.R. Price provide live music before and after the program and during intermission.  

The line-up for 2016 is poet Jeff Gundy on January 8th, novelist Cyndi Pauwels on  February 12th, literary journalist David Nilsen on March 18th, and the Greenville Poets on April 22nd. 

It's a privilege to be able to host someone of Jeff Gundy's caliber at the January 8th Author's Night!  Jeff was born in Illinois and graduated from Goshen University before earning his doctorate in American Lit at Indiana University in Bloomington.  He taught four years at Hesston College in Kansas and since 1984 has been at Bluffton University where he is Professor of English and former chair of the English/Language department.

He has published six volumes of poetry and four books of creative non-fiction.  His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary and scholarly magazines and have won many prestigious awards.  He's served on the faculty of the Antioch Writers Workshop (in both nonfiction and poetry) as well as on workshops and conferences at universities around the country.  Please see Jeff Gundy on Amazon and htttp://www.bluffton.edu/~gundyj/ to get an idea of the scope of his work

As Philip Metres writes “If Whitman were born in the Midwest to Mennonite parents, listened to Dylan and the Dead and loved to laugh at himself, he'd sound just like Jeff Gundy... Gundy's poetry reminds us, over and over, that paying attention to the delights and troubles of existence becomes a kind of psalm to this botched and beautiful creation.”

Jeff has been married to Marlyce (Martens) Gundy since 1973, and they have three grown sons: Nathan, Ben, and Joel. His hobbies include playing guitar and handball, jogging, and soccer.  Be sure to join us for the  truly wonderful experience of hearing Jeff read aloud and share his life and works.


 
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