June Little Lecture - An Afternoon with Poet Doug Van Gundy

Join us this summer and enjoy 2 more lectures that highlight the "Current Voices in Appalachia." These lectures bring you up to speed on some of the latest and greatest in West Virginia and regional fiction and poetry!

The series is one of the many ways the Humanities Council shares our historic property with the community. Seating is limited (thus “Little” Lectures) and reservations are suggested. Admission is $10 per person and includes refreshments after the lecture. When the weather is nice refreshments are enjoyed outdoors under our pergola.

This month, we are happy to welcome poet, musician, and Elkins native Doug Van Gundy. He has been featured on Mountain Stage and served as a visiting poet across Appalachia. This celebrated raconteur will guide the audience through some of the brightest new voices in West Virginia poetry, along with a selection of his own recent work. Van Gundy directs the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at West Virginia Wesleyan College. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including "Poets & Writers," "Poetry," and the "Oxford American." He is the author of a book of poems, "A Life Above Water," and coeditor of the anthology "Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia."

This year’s program is made possible in part by generous funding from the Herscher Foundation.

Learn more here : https://wvhumanities.org/programs/little-lectures/.

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