On February 6-7, 2012, the Department of English will host a visit by the poet Jeff Gundy. On Monday, February 6, Mr. Gundy will be reading from his poetry. On Tuesday, February 7, he will be delivering a lecture titled “Songs from an Empty Cage: Some Notes on Theopoetics.” Both events will be held at 8:00 p.m. in Dow Rooms A & B on the Hillsdale College campus. Both are free and open to the public.

Jeff Gundy’s five books of poems include, most recently, Spoken among the Trees (Akron, 2007), winner of the Poetry Award from the Society of Midland Authors, and Deerflies (WordTech Editions, 2004), winner of the Editions Poetry Prize and the Nancy Dasher Award. Earlier books of poems include Rhapsody with Dark Matter (Bottom Dog, 2000), Flatlands (Cleveland State U. Poetry Center, 1996), and Inquiries (Bottom Dog, 1992). His prose books include Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing (Cascadia, 2005), chosen for the Dale W. Brown Book Award, Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye (SUNY, 2003), and A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara (Illinois, 1996). He was the Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Salzburg in Austria in 2008. Other awards include multiple fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, two C. Henry Smith Peace Lectureships, and (as a regular reviewer of poetry and nonfiction for The Georgia Review) a share of a Silver Gamma Award. His poems and essays have appeared in Kenyon Review, Christian Century, The Sun, Cincinnati Review, Georgia Review, Antioch Review, Image, Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Quarterly West, River Styx, Tampa Review, Shenandoah, The Common Reader, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, and many other magazines. He teaches writing, literature, and other courses at Bluffton University in Ohio, where he was Faculty Scholar in 2004-05.