SEPTEMBER 21- Michael McFee

MY INNER HILLBILLY, A POETRY AND ESSAY READING

September 21, 2010 at 4pm in the Royall Room, UNC Alumni Center

Free and Open to the Public

Author or editor of thirteen books, Asheville native Michael McFee is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. He will read an essay and some poems about growing up in the North Carolina mountains, living as an Appalachian-in-exile for nearly four decades, and — despite misgivings — coming to terms with his enduring inner hillbilly.

Michael McFee has published nine collections of poetry, most recently The Smallest Talk (Bull City Press, 2007). In 2006, he published his first collection of essays, The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview (University of Tennessee Press). He also edited This is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2000, a companion anthology to The Language They Speak is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets, published by UNC Press in1994.