Friends' formal tea features poet Jeff Gundy
Library fundraiser also includes silent auction
The Friends of the Bluffton Public Library will hold a Spring Tea and Silent Auction at 6:00 p.m.on Thursday, April 27 at the library, 145 S. Main.
Tickets are $15 and will go on sale at the library on March 15. The event includes a formal tea, a light meal. The number of tickets is limited, so please get your tickets early.
Local writer and poet Jeff Gundy is the guest speaker. Gundy is Distinguished Poet in Residence at Bluffton University, where he has taught writing, literature and other courses since 1984.
Gundy's latest book, Wind Farm: Landscape with Stories and Towers, is a memoir about the central Illinois prairie where he grew up. Other recent books include Without a Plea and Abandoned Homeland (poetry from Bottom Dog Press) and Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace (criticism).
Gundy’s poems and essays have appeared in Georgia Review, The Sun, Kenyon Review, Forklift, Ohio, Christian Century, Image, Cincinnati Review, and Terrain.org. He held a Fulbright lectureship at the University of Salzburg in 2008 and was named the 2015 Ohio Poet of the Year for Somewhere Near Defiance.
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The silent auction will include teapots made by local potter Bruce Chesser, Bluffton College ceremonial plates, vintage books, hand-made nursery rhyme decorations and a puzzle featuring fine bone china cups and saucers.
The Friends of the Library support programming at the library by raising funds for activities and projects not covered by the library budget.
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