Poet, Funeral Director Thomas Lynch Offers Albion College’s 2006 Yinger Lecture
Posted Monday, February 13, 2006

Reported by Jake Weber

ALBION, Mich. – A local author with an international reputation for seeing the poetry in unusual corners of life presents Albion College’s annual Yinger Lecture Wednesday, March 1, at 7 p.m. in the Stockwell-Mudd Library. Funeral director, poet and essayist Thomas Lynch will read and discuss his works and creative process as the Yinger lecturer.

Lynch won several national prizes including the American Book Award for his first book of nonfiction, The Undertaking. Bodies in Motion and at Rest won the Great Lakes Book Award and Booking Passage was named a 2006 Notable Book by the Library of Michigan. Lynch’s poems, essays and stories have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Esquire, The New York Times, The Times of London and The Irish Times and have been broadcast by NPR, the BBC and RTE in Ireland. Currently an adjunct professor with the Graduate Department of English at the University of Michigan, Lynch lives in Milford, where he has been the funeral director since 1974, and in County Clare, Ireland where he keeps an ancestral cottage.

The annual Yinger lecture is given in honor of the many members of the Yinger family who are graduates of Albion College. The Rev. Emma Bancroft (class of 1904) and George Daniel Yinger (class of 1904) were the parents of six Albion College alumni. The lectureship was established by many families and friends, in order to sponsor distinguished lecturers in religion, drama, English literature, history and sociology.

This event is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Albion College’s English Department at 517-629-0232 or jlockyer@albion.edu.

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