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| Kenneth Chamlee |
Mountain Wordsmiths is honored to have as our featured reader, distinguished poet Kenneth Chamlee, on Thursday morning, May 26, at 10:30 via Zoom. Our monthly gathering, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West, is continuing its online presence because local writers, as well as writers from other states and cities, are joining us each month on Zoom.
Chamlee is a 2022 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet
for the North Carolina Poetry Society. His poems have appeared in The
North Carolina Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, The Asheville Poetry
Review, Ekphrasis, and many other journals, including several editions
of Kakalak: An Anthology of Carolina Poets. He has two
contest-winning chapbooks, Absolute Faith (ByLine Press)
and Logic of the Lost (Longleaf Press), and has done
residencies with the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for Creative
Arts, and the Hambidge Center.
Chamlee has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and in 2017 was a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize. An Emeritus Professor of English at Brevard College, NC, he was the first director of the Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference, held annually in Brevard.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North
Carolina-Greensboro and teaches for the Great Smokies Writing Program of
UNC-Asheville. His new collection of poems, If Not These
Things, will be published in the fall of 2022. His poetic biography of
19th century American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, The Best
Material for the Artist in the World, is forthcoming in 2023. Learn
more about him at www.kennethchamlee.com and @kenchamlee on
Twitter.
NCWN-West is continuing to stay in touch by using
technology to share our writing. We will offer writing events and
writing classes online until we can safely meet face-to-face again. Many
writers are enjoying the convenience and flexibility of Zoom meetings because
of the ability to join us from other locations.
Mountain Wordsmiths will continue its online presence. For those who enjoyed attending Coffee with the Poets and Writers which met at Moss Memorial Library, exciting news is coming soon!
Those wishing to attend Mountain Wordsmiths may contact Carroll Taylor at vibiaperpetua@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. We welcome those who would simply like to listen to the beauty of wordsmithing.
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