By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Posted 3-31-08
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Poets Michael Chitwood and Michael McFee will read Thursday, April 24, at UNCG.
The reading – sponsored by The Greensboro Review in conjunction with the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, Poetry GSO and Cave Wall – begins at 7 p.m. in the Faculty Center on College Avenue.
Part of the 2nd Annual Spring Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival, the event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow.
Chitwood is the author of eight poetry collections, including “Spill,” “The Weave Room,” “Salt Works,” “From Whence” and “Whet,” as well as the essay collections “Hitting Below the Bible Belt” and “Finishing Touches.” He is a visiting lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill.
McFee is the author nine collections of poetry, including “The Smallest Talk,” “Shinemaster” and “Earthly,” co-winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society. He has also edited the anthologies “This Is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers” and “The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets.” He is a professor of English at UNC-Chapel Hill.
For more information, contact Terry Kennedy at (336) 334-5459 or terry_kennedy@uncg.edu.
