Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Question: What North Carolina university did Poet Laureate Fred Chappell attend?

Answer: Fred Chappell attended Duke University, where he befriended fellow writers Anne Tyler, Reynolds Price, and James Applewhite. Chappell was North Carolina’s Poet Laureate from 1997 through 2002, and has received the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award, and many other awards.