This article is from the EMU News Archive. The approximate date of publication was in October 2003. Current EMU news is available at www.emu.edu/news

TO EMU HEADLINE NEWS | LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

Gundy to Lead 'Writers Read'

The language and literature department at Eastern Mennonite University will hold another “Writers Read” program 5:30 p.m. Thursday, November 6, 2003, in the west dining room of the university cafeteria.

Jeff Gundy, poet, essayist and professor of English at Bluffton (Ohio) College, will read from his creative non-fiction work at the dinner meeting.

Gundy’s latest book, “Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye” (SUNY, 2003), blends the history of the Amish and Mennonites, family history and his own life story in exploring how the author might live in harmony with the Mennonite ideal to “be in the world but not of it.”

He is also the author of “A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara” (University of Illinois, 1996) and of three books of poetry –“Rhapsody with Dark Matter”; “Poems; Flatlands” and “Inquiries: Poems.”

Gundy's poetry manuscript, "Deerflies," won the 2003 WordTech Edition prize and will be published the summer of 2004.

Admission to the program, which includes dinner, is $7. Advance reservations should be made by noon, Oct. 31, by calling the EMU box office at 540-432-4582.

Posted: October 23, 2003