Fred Chappell
Fred Chappell is the author of thirty books of fiction, essays and poetry. His Midquest (LSU, 1981) received the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and his other awards include the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. He taught for 40 years at UNC-Greensboro and served as the N. C. Poet Laureate. “Halloween Moon Over Huddle Knob Graveyard” originally appeared in Shenandoah 55/1. Halloween Moon Over Huddle Knob Graveyard
Skinny McCaudle is called forth on Huddle And in his bone hand his skedaddle fiddle That used to put cloggers to their sweaty mettle Cries out again While the moon swoops out of the wind And the wind swoons into … Continue reading