June 4 Town Hall concert: Hermsen and Gundy
The Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series will host poet and songwriter Terry Hermsen at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 4. Hermsen will be playing a set of original music dealing with climate crisis along with hope for change.
Bluffton's own Jeff Gundy will also be performing. The event takes place on the third floor of Bluffton Town Hall, 154 N. Main St.
Terry Hermsen is a poet from Ohio who has published four books of poems with Bottom Dog Press. He has conducted over 50 poetry residencies for the Ohio Art Council Artists in the Schools program, from 1979-2003, and has since taught poetry, art criticism and environmental literature at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.
He was part of Reading The Earth: The Language of Nature workshops at Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center from 1999-2012 and has translated two books by Christian Formoso, a contemporary Chilean poet: The Most Beautiful Cemetery in Chile (2015 )and bellezamericana. (2021).
Since 2017, Hermsen has concentrated his efforts on organizing climate change projects in central Ohio via ROAR (Regional Ohio Action for Resilience), which seeks to build cooperative bridges between area colleges, cities and citizenry to reduce our carbon footprint and build more supportive, ecologically-aware communities as a part of bioregional regeneration and connection.
Terry will be joined by local poet-author-musician Jeff Gundy, whose recent essays, poems, and reviews appear in The Georgia Review, The Sun, Kenyon Review, Forklift, Ohio, Terrain, Image, Cincinnati Review, and Artful Dodge.
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