RIPON, Wis. – Author Gary Gildner will share his fiction and poetry at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25 in the Caestecker Gallery of Ripon College’s Rodman Center for the Arts.
Gildner has written 20 published books, including Blue Like the Heavens: New and Selected Poems, memoir My Grandfather’s Book. and his novel, The Second Bridge. The Warsaw Sparks is a memoir about coaching a baseball team in Poland in 1980. Most recently, two of his poetry books were published, titled Somewhere Geese are Flying: New and Selected Stories and Cleaning a Rainbow.
He has received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
A Michigan native, Gildner currently resides on a ranch in Idaho’s Clearwater mountains and is one of a dwindling number of authors to eschew word-processing programs in favor of a mechanical typewriter. Gildner received his Bachelor’s of Arts degree in English from Michigan State University.
Gildner’s visit is being sponsored by the Ripon College Visiting Writers Series with assistance from the Schang Family Visiting Writer’s Fund. The series has been bringing top literary talent to campus for 20 years. For more information, contact Kate Sontag, Department of English, at 748-8723.
About Ripon College
Ripon College, founded in 1851, prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Ripon’s liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education. Ripon has consistently been recognized as a “best value” and “Best 366 College” by The Princeton Review, a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s, a “Best Liberal-Arts College” by Washington Monthly, and is listed among the 160 best schools in the nation by Colleges of Distinction. For more information about Ripon College, visit www.ripon.edu. |
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