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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. For more information, please contact Dr. Kellie Brown at 461-8978.