Michael Chitwood
Michael Chitwood was born and raised in the foothills of the VA Blue Ridge Mountains but now works as a freelance writer and college lecturer in Chapel Hill, N.C. His many books of poetry include Salt Works, Whet, The Weave Room and Gospel Road Going, which received the 2003 Roanoke-Chowan Award. His poems can be found in Georgia Review, Poetry and many other venues.
Reading List
Skunk
A smell you can taste. Road-kill, its cloud is a sudden smother of summer night. Pole kitty, says the driver to cute up the stench. Just don’t frighten them you remember your father saying as they meandered near the porch. …
His Chair
After lunch and before he went back to the fields, he’d catch a nap there, a quick 15 minutes he said “percolated him.” He’s in the fields for good now and in that chair, now in my living room, his …
Dominion
We called them The Bible Couple because they had one, a spiffy leather-bound number with its own latch that snapped front cover to back as though the gospel were a snake that had to be secure din its carrying box. …