The Black Mountain Center for the Arts has announced that Fred Chappell, the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997–2002 (and apparent flower lover) will do a reading at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 20 as part of this year’s Art in Bloom. The Center is located at 225 W. State St. in Black Mountain.
Art in Bloom, the center’s largest fundraiser, will present three days of flowers and art from Friday, June 18 through Sunday, June 20. It will involve hundreds of volunteers, a gallery show, dozens of floral arrangements by western and Ikebana florists, a cottage garden tour, a big party, and the reading by Chappell.
Fred Davis Chappell was born in Canton, NC and is an author and poet. He was an English professor for 40 years (1964-2004) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997–2002.
His 1968 novel Dagon, which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Académie française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic. His literary awards include the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
For more information about the event, visit the Black Mountain Center for the Arts’ website.
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