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Noted Poet to Read Works at EMU

Michael Chitwood

The language and literature department at Eastern Mennonite University will hold its first "Writers Read" program of second semester 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in Martin Chapel of the seminary building at EMU.

Poet Michael Chitwood will read from his published works.

The Rocky Mount, Va., native currently lives in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he is a freelance writer and visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina.

Chitwood has published three full–length collections of poetry: "Salt Works" (Ohio Review Books, 1992), "Whet" (Ohio Review Books, 1995) and "The Weave Room" (The University of Chicago Press, 1998).

His collection of essays, "Hitting Below the Bible Belt: Blood Kin, Baptist Voodoo, Grandma's Teeth and Other Stories from the South," was published in 1998 by Down Home Press.

Chitwood earned a B.A. degree from Emory & Henry College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Virginia.

Admission to the program, which includes dinner, is $12. Students with I.D. will be admitted for $5. Advance reservations should be made by noon, Jan. 27, by calling the EMU box office at 540-432-4582.

— article by: Jim Bishop; posted January 16, 2006