Award-winning poet and former North Carolina Poet Laureate Fred Chappell will give a poetry reading at the University of Mary Washington on Thursday, November 15. The poetry reading will take place at 5 p.m. in Combs Hall, Room 139, and will be followed by a reception and book signing. The event is free and open to the public.
Chappell, who grew up in the mountains of North Carolina, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Duke University. He taught writing and literature at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro from 1964 to 2004 and served as the North Carolina Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002.
Chappell is the author of more than 40 books of poetry, fiction and essays. He has been the recipient of Yale University Library’s Bollingen Prize in Poetry, France’s Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Thomas Wolfe Prize and the World Fantasy Award. He also has been inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
For more information about the poetry reading, contact Warren G. Rochelle, associate professor of English, at (540) 654-1393.