Jeffrey Gene Gundy (born 1952
Flanagan, Illinois
Flanagan is a village in Livingston County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,110 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Flanagan is located in western Livingston County at . Illinois Route 116 passes along the southern edge of the village, l ...
) is an American poet of
Mennonite descent based in
Ohio. Gundy has written eight books of poetry and four books of creative nonfiction and literary criticism, and was awarded the Ohio Poet of the Year in 2015. He teaches at
Bluffton University. He debuted with ''Inquiries'' in 1992, followed by ''Flatlands'' in 1995. His subsequent books of poems include ''Without a Plea,'' ''Somewhere Near Defiance'', ''Abandoned Homeland'', ''Spoken among the Trees'', ''Rhapsody with Dark Matter'' and ''Deerflies''. His prose books include ''Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace,'' and ''A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara.'' He is also known as an important contributor to
Mennonite literary criticism.
References
1952 births
American Christian writers
Living people
American Mennonites
Mennonite poets
Poets from Ohio
Poets from Illinois
People from Livingston County, Illinois
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
American male poets
21st-century American poets
20th-century American poets
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