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Award winning author to visit Milligan
MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (October 1, 2003) —Milligan College
Arts Council will host award-winning author and lecturer Gary Gildner on
Thursday, Oct. 9. Gildner will speak in chapel and hold several poetry and
prose readings throughout the day.
Gildner is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction,
Pushcart Prizes in fiction and non-fiction, the Robert Frost Fellowship,
the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes, and two
National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. ForeWord Magazine named his
second memoir, My Grandfather’s Book, a Top Ten University Press Book of
the Year. His book, The Bunker in the Parsley Fields, received the 1996
Iowa Poetry Prize.
He has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to Poland and Czechoslovakia and
writer-in-residence at Reed College, Davidson College, Seattle University
and Michigan State University.
Gildner has given readings of his work at the Library of Congress, the
Academy of American Poets, Manhattan Theatre Club, and at some 300
colleges and schools in the United Sates and abroad. Currently Gilder
lives and writes on a ranch in Idaho’s Clearwater Mountains.
Gildner will share readings with the student body and community on Oct. 9,
at 11 a.m., in Seeger Chapel. He will perform an outdoor poetry and prose
reading at 3:30 p.m. on the side steps of Derthick Hall and an evening
poetry & prose reading at 7:30 p.m. in Hyder Auditorium. All events are
free and open to the public.
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