[FAC] Jean and Louis Janzen Writers Series Tonight

[Cindy Wathen]

*Poetry reading at FPU*

Fresno Pacific University will hold a poetry reading and book signing 
with Jeff Gundy at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Ashley Auditorium, 1717 S. 
Chestnut Ave.

This free event is part of the Jean and Louis Janzen Visiting Writers 
Series.

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In 1975, Gundy received his BA in English from Goshen College. By this 
time he had already compiled two collections of poems, /Back Home in 
Babylon: Poems/ (1974) and /Johnny America Takes on Mother Nature 
/(1975), published by Goshen's Pinchpenny Press. After receiving his BA, 
Gundy went on to do graduate work at Indiana University, Bloomington. He 
eventually acquired an MA in creative writing and a PhD in American 
literature.

Since the completion of his PhD, Gundy has focused his professional 
energies on his writings and his teaching career. Gundy has held 
teaching positions at a number of institutions including Indiana 
University in Bloomington, Goshen College, Hesston College, and Bluffton 
University. He is currently a professor of English at Bluffton, where he 
has been since 1984. Along with teaching, Gundy has continued publishing 
poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction, as well as doing readings and 
poetry workshops and serving as an organizer for the "Mennonite/s 
Writing" conferences. 

Gundy's recent poetic publications include /Rhapsody with Dark Matter/ 
(2000) and /Deerflies /(2004), which won the 2005 Nancy Dasher Award 
from the College English Association of Ohio for the best creative 
writing book of the year. A new book, /Spoken among the Trees/, is 
scheduled to come out in the fall of 2007. His important prose works 
include /A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara/ (1995), 
/Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye /(2003), and/ Walker in 
the Fog: On Mennonite Writing /(2005). Gundy's poetry and essays have 
appeared in numerous publications including /Poet Lore/, /Shenandoah/, 
/Poetry Northwest/, /Spoon River Quarterly/, /Creative Nonfiction/, 
/Image/, /Cincinnati Poetry Review/, /Indiana Review/, /Artful Dodge/, 
/Mid-American Review/, and /Mennonite Quarterly Review./

Details: (559) 453-4610.

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