UNCA Professor Richard Chess to Read at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe Nov. 19

UNCA’s Writers at Home reading series continues at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood St., Asheville, with a reading by Richard Chess. Writers at Home is part of the Great Smokies Writing Program, a consortium of the Western North Carolina writers’ community and UNC Asheville’s Creative Writing Program. The program is free and open to the public.

Chess is a UNCA associate professor of literature and language and director of UNCA’s Center for Jewish Studies. His poetry has been widely published in periodicals and in anthologies, including "Telling and Remembering: A Century of American-Jewish Poetry" and "Ravishing Disunities: An Anthology of Real Ghazals." His first book of poems, "Tekiah," was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1994.

For more information, call UNCA’s Literature and Language Department at 828/251-6411.

Media Contacts:

• Tommy Hays, Great Smokies Writing Program Director, 828/254-1389
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant, 828/251-6526