with Special Guests Keith Flynn & Glenis Redmond
Tuesday, June 12, 7:30 pm
$12, $10 for BMCM+AC members and students w/ID
Event Raffle: A signed, limited-edition fine art broadside of Charles Wright’s “China Traces” created at Book Works Studio.
“Anybody who knows anything about Southern writing knows that Fred Chappell is our resident genius, our shining light, the one truly great writer we have among us.” Lee Smith
"As a writer, failure is my stock in trade." Fred Chappell
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is pleased to present three award-winning writers from North Carolina for a stellar night of poetry on Tuesday, June 12 from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Asheville-based author and editor of Rivendell, Sebastian Matthews will host the night and introduce each of these dynamic and much-admired authors. The reading will celebrate the publication of Native Genius, the recent issue of Rivendell featuring Southern Appalachian writers and highlights of the Asheville-area poetry scene.
Fred Chappell was born in Canton, North Carolina and educated at Duke University. Chappell has written fourteen books of verse, two volumes of stories, one of criticism and eight novels. Chappell is a former North Carolina Poet Laureate and has received numerous other awards and honors over his long career including: the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize (1973), the North Carolina Award for Literature (1980), Yale University Library's Bollingen Prize in poetry (1985), a literature award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters (1968) and the Aiken Taylor Award in poetry (1996). His works of fiction include I Am One of You Forever and Brighten The Corner Where You Are, and a new volume of poetry, Spring Garden. He was the Burlington Industries Excellence Professor of English at UNC Greensboro and is a current faculty member emeritus of the University’s MFA Writing Program. He taught at UNC Greensboro from 1964 to 2004 and helped found its writing program. Chappell lives in Greensboro with his wife, Susan.
Keith Flynn was born August 4, 1962. He studied at Mars Hill College and the UNC-Asheville. Flynn is the author of four collections of poetry The Talking Drum, The Book of Monsters, The Lost Sea and The Golden Ratio. Flynn is the founder and managing editor of Asheville Poetry Review, a biannual literary journal. He has a new prose book out from Writer’s Digest Books, The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz, and Memory: How to Make Your Poetry Swing.
Glenis Redmond has won numerous awards including The Carrie McCray Literary Award in Poetry, a study fellowship from Vermont Writing Center, study scholarships to the Atlantic Center for the Arts and a week of study with Natalie Goldberg. She is the 1997 and the 1998 Southeast Regional Individual Poetry Slam Champion. Redmond placed in the Top 10 in 1996 and 1997 for the National Individual Slam Championship and has recently released her second CD, Monumental.
Co-sponsored by Rivendell Literary Arts, Book Works Studio, Malaprop’s Bookstore, & The Captain’s Bookshelf
