{"id":4804,"date":"2019-02-11T21:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:45:24","slug":"new-faces-at-lebanon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2019\/02\/11\/new-faces-at-lebanon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"New faces at Lebanon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Raeann Walquist ’20, staff writer<\/p>\n

With an ever-evolving student body and faculty, it can be challenging to get to know new faces around campus.\u00a0 This semester, LVC welcomed Dr. William Greenway, a poet, writer and editor onto campus. <\/span><\/p>\n

Greenway stumbled across LVC on a trip to Hersheypark with his wife and daughter after receiving his Ph.D. in modern literature and poetry and teaching at Youngstown State for 30 years. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShortly after I retired from Youngstown State in Ohio and moved my family here, I was driving my Lititz-born wife Mindi and my daughter Rosalee to Hershey Park, when I passed a sign that read Lebanon Valley College,\u201d Greenway said. \u201cIt sounded so bucolic and archetypal I fantasized about teaching here because I missed being in the classroom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to teaching, Greenway is an award-winning author and poet with more than 800 published poems and some in the works, including his new favorite piece, \u201cEverything We Bring, All We Leave Behind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI started out as a \u201860\u2019s folk singer and songwriter, but gradually the lyrics became more interesting and better than the music,\u201d Greenway said. \u201cI ended up starting a Celtic music band that eventually made three CDs. I still play my guitar every day and perform every chance I get.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Greenway finds inspiration for his writing in his childhood, Dylan Thomas, Florida summers and newly the scenery of Central Pennsylvania. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife teases me by saying that all of my poems could be titled \u2018I\u2019m from the South and My Mama Didn\u2019t Love Me None,\u2019 but I write about everything that occurs to me,\u201d Greenway said. <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to writing, Greenway enjoys editing and is even teaching the editing class on campus this semester. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI started out in complete ignorance, but the projects I was invited to participate in, such as the anthology of Ohio poems, I Have My Own Song For It,<\/em> I couldn\u2019t resist,\u201d Greenway said. \u201cIt was a steep learning curve at the beginning, but I\u2019m delighted to be able to pass along what I\u2019ve learned in my editing course here at LVC.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Outside of the classroom, Greenway enjoys spending time with his daughter and fishing, especially on the idyllic Gulf Coast. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou haven\u2019t lived until you\u2019ve felt a bull shark trying to steal your stringer of fish from around your waist as you wade-fish in the surf,\u201d Greenway said. <\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, if Greenway could offer some advice to his students and aspiring writers on campus, he would encourage them to interact with writing as much as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRead everything, and especially poetry, and keep a journal, which is, for me, the seedbed of all my poems,\u201d Greenway said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students interested in poetry, editing or publishing, or those who wish to reach out to Greenway may contact him at whgreenway@ysu.edu.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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