Poetry Workshop with Poet Jeff Gundy - In-Person Option

This is a hybrid event. In-person and virtual registrations are separate. This is the registration for in-person attendance. If you wish to attend virtually (via Zoom), please go to this link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-workshop-with-jeff-gundy-virtual-option-tickets-1147349967639?aff=oddtdtcreator

About the Workshop "Exploring Phantom Power(s)"

Condenser microphones need “phantom power” to operate—but phantom powers, weak and strong, are all around us. What powers operate in and on the world, in and on us, that deserve more (or different) attention, naming, narrating, than we have yet given them? From the quantum realm to plant and animal communication, from the inner workings of our beings (psychological, spiritual, and material) to the ways we experience the so-called real world, powers we cannot fully identify circulate everywhere. We will explore some poems that investigate and seek to name phantom powers, and begin some new explorations of our own.

About the Poet

Jeff Gundy’s thirteen books of poetry and nonfiction include, most recently, Wind Farm: Landscape with Stories and Towers (Dos Madres, 2021, creative nonfiction) and Without a Plea (Bottom Dog, 2019, poems). A former Fulbright lecturer in Salzburg, Austria, he was named Ohio Poet of the Year for Somewhere Near Defiance (Anhinga, 2014). His work appears in many journals, including Georgia Review, The Sun, River Teeth, Kenyon Review, Forklift, Ohio, Christian Century, Cincinnati Review, and Terrain.org. He received a major grant from the Seattle Foundation to serve as 2023-25 Writer in (Non)Residence at Bluffton University and is at work on a long-term project with the working title Phantom Power(s), and a volume of new and selected poems.

Workshop location details

We are excited to partner with the Royal Oak Initiative to hold this quarterly workshop at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Arts Center (80 Parsons Avenue) in the Olde Town East neighborhood near downtown Columbus.

In-person attendance is limited to 40. This event is open to the public.

Registration closes on Friday, April 11, 2025, at 5 p.m. EDT.

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