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Friends of DCDL Annual Meeting

with Andrew Grace on "A Brief History of the Midwest"

The Friends of the Library will present a recap of the past year, a sneak peek at future plans, and welcome guests to hear from Professor Andrew Grace. Registration recommended for planning purposes.

Whether you have officially joined the Friends of the Library as a member or not, join us at the Liberty Library to learn more about "A Brief History of the Midwest" with Professor Andrew Grace. The presentation will follow a brief annual meeting and election of officers for the Friends of the Delaware County District Library. Please RSVP to help with planning. 

Speaker

Andrew Grace was born in 1978 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where his family has farmed for several generations.

He studied English literature at Kenyon College in Ohio, and earned his MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. He attended Stanford as a Stegner Fellow, and earned his Doctoral degree from the University of Cincinnati.

He is the author of three books of poems, A Belonging Field (Salt Publishing), Shadeland (Ohio State University Press) and SANCTA (Ahsahta/Foundlings). His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, New Criterion and Adroit Journal amongst others. He is also a Senior Editor at the Kenyon Review.

He now teaches poetry at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio where he lives with his wife Tory and their two daughters.

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