Online Resources on Fred Chappell

Works by Fred Chappell Available Online

Fiction

• Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You Chapter 1, from The Washington Post
• Snake Handling Chapter 3 of Pete and Shirley The Great Tarheel Novel by 17 North Carolina Writers, published in the News and Observer.

Poetry

• "Pigs Rampant on a Field of Red" Two versions of a poem about the Kent State shootings

Essays and Criticism

• Our School Song: Keep Up Your Swords about his inclusion in the book A New Pleiade
• Poets at the Barricades An essay on modern poets who write in traditional verse, and a review of Edgar Bowers' Collected Poems. From the Raleigh News and Observer.
• Convocation Address, Georgia College and State University, August 19, 1998. "As a writer, failure is my stock in trade."
• Commencement Address East Carolina University, May 16, 1998. Discusses the importance of the university: "Our campus library is the repository of important voices, most of them belonging to dead people. I go there to listen to what they have to say and to think about it."
• The State of Poetry republished by the North Carolina Arts Council, from the Raleigh News and Observer

Reviews of Books by Fred Chappell

• Books by Fred Chappell from the North Carolina Bookstore: brief summaries and information on ordering from Amazon.com
• Dancing at the Throne of God A book review by Eilieen Amon, from Creative Loafing Online, Charlotte
• It Is Time Lord Review and ordering information, from LSU Press
• Spring Garden Review, a poem, and ordering information, from LSU Press
• A Way of Happening Essays and reviews of contemporary poety, from St. Martin's Press
• A Way of Happening reviewed by Sally Buckner, in Spectator Magazine Online
• Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You A reader's group guide from St. Martin's Press
• As She Lay Dying A review by Howard Frank Mosher of Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You, from the Washington Post

Background on Fred Chappell

• Fred Chappell by Crystal Black. Critical biography with bibliographies of primary and secondary works
• North Carolina's Poet Laureate biography from Poet Laureates of America
• About the Author biography from the News and Observer
• Fred Chappell's University of North Carolina Greensboro Web Page
• Fred Chappell biography by Mary Wheeling, Methodist College
• Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision of Fred Chappell Ed. Patrick Bizarro, from LSU Press
• Fred Chappell Bibliography Science fiction works, from the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• North Carolina Has New Poet Laureate from North Carolina Arts Council Newsletter

Awards

• North Carolina Literary Award Winners (lists the eight North Carolina awards won by Chappell)
• Aiken/Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Academy of American Poets
• World Fantasy Award, 1992; 1994.

Meet Fred Chappell at the upcoming Georgia Perimeter College Lyceum Symposium, April 6th at 7:30pm, Clarkston JCLRC auditorium (Lecture followed by questions), and April 7th at 12:30pm, Clarkston JCLRC Room 4190 (Explorations of Life as a Writer).