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Fred Chappell has 5 past events. (show) An Evening with Fred Chappell Fred Chappell, poetry. Fred Chappell taught creative writing at UNCG for 40 years and directed the MFA program in creative writing. He has published 8 novels, 17 volumes of poetry, 2 books of essays, 2 collections of short stories, and a multi-genre reader; he received the Yale Bollingen Poetry award and the N.C. Thomas Wolfe award. He was N.C. Poet Laureate from 1997-2002. Tickets are free and can be reserved at: http://2009fredchappell.eventbrite.com/?ref=elink (randolphcclibrary)… (more) Fred Chappell Fred ChappellNorth Carolina native Fred Chappell will read from and sign copies of his new poetry book, Shadow Box. In this poem-within-a-poem, Chappell explores the boundaries of poetic form and delights the imagination. Chappell is the award-winning author of a dozen other books of verse, two short story collections, and eight novels. (booksense) Fred Chappell to Read from New Poetry Collection Fred ChappellPoet and novelist Fred Chappell will be at the store on Friday, August 7th at 7:00 p.m. to read from his new collection, entitled Shadow Box: Poems, published by Louisiana State University Press. In this innovative collection, Chappell layers words and images to create a new and dramatic poetic form — the poem-within-a-poem. Like the shadow box in the volume’s title, each piece consists of an inner world that is contained, framed, supported by an outer — the two of which are interdependent, sometimes supplementary, often contrary. Chappell also introduces sonnets in which the sestet nests within the octet. Play serves as an important component, but the poems do not depend upon gamesmanship or verbal strategems. Instead, they trace human feelings, respond to the news of the world, and rejoice in humankind’s plentiful variety of attitudes and beliefs. Just as an x-ray can show the inner structure of a physical object, so the techniques in Shadow Box display the internal energies of the separate works. Chappell also has a new collection of stories coming out in November, and we’re delighted that he’ll be at the Great Smoky Mountains Book Fair here in Sylva on November 14th to promote that book as well as Shadow Box. Please see the story below for more information. (booksense)… (more)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | Growing up in the North Carolina mountains near Asheville, writer Fred Chappell, working to find his own literary voice, resisted association with the area’s literary legend, Thomas Wolfe. Wolfe, he said, had achieved the “status of folklore.” However, on October 6, Chappell graciously accepted the 2005 Thomas Wolfe Prize, which honors his impressive body of work, including seventeen collections of poetry, eight novels, two books of short fiction, two books of essays, and a multi-genre reader. Following the presentation, Chappell delivered the annual Thomas Wolfe Lecture to an appreciative capacity crowd in the Morehead Banquet Hall on campus. His remarks were characterized by his trademark rich prose, which distills folksiness, intellectualism, humor, and piercing insights into language and observations that delight and startle.
Chappell is the first native North Carolinian to receive the award that honors UNC’s most famous literary alumnus Thomas Wolfe (1920), author of Look Homeward, Angel. Chappell’s works include his masterpiece Midquest (1984), a four-book verse novel, and the tetralogy of Kirkman novels from I Am One of Your Forever (1985) through Look Back All the Green Valley (1999). Besides teaching writing and literature at UNC-Greensboro from 1964 to 2004, Chappell served as state Poet Laureate from 1997-2002.  | |
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