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Size | 16.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 8,000 items) |
Abstract | Michael McFee was born in Asheville, N.C., on 4 June 1954. He received an A.B. (1976) and M.A. (1978) in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has taught at the University since 1984. McFee has published collections of poetry, served as assistant editor for poetry at DoubleTake magazine, and was coordinator of the Second Sunday Reading Series in Chapel Hill. The collection contains material related to McFee's writing, including drafts of poems and essays written between 1970 and 2002. Subjects of McFee's essays include writers A. R. Ammons, Doris Betts, and Fred Chappell. Material pertaining to McFee's published collections of poetry consists primarily of drafts, correspondence about publication matters, reviews and comments, and promotional material. Papers related to DoubleTake concern the selection of poems for publication in the magazine. Material from the Second Sunday Reading Series includes promotional pieces, drafts of reader introductions, and plans for the tenth anniversary celebration of the Series. Personal letters related to McFee's work as a poet and editor are scattered throughout the collection. |
Creator | McFee, Michael. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English. |
Full processing of this collection has been deferred pending expected additions. Materials have been kept in the order in which they were received. Note that McFee's original box and folder titles have, for the most part, been retained. There has been some checking of contents against folder labels, but, because materials are largely unprocessed, researchers should be aware that folder labels may not always comprehensively reflect folder contents.
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Michael McFee was born in Asheville, N.C., on 4 June 1954 andgrew up in the small town of Arden in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976 with an A.B. in English with highest honors in creative writing. He received an M.A. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1978. McFee served as poetry editor for Carolina Quarterly while attending graduate school. After completing his degree, he became book editor for Spectator magazine in Raleigh, N.C., and book commentator for WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill. Throughout that time, McFee was writing poems and submitting them for publication in various magazines. Since the late 1970s, his work has appeared in journals such as Southern Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The Nation, and The Atlantic Monthly.
McFee has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1984. He started in that year as visiting lecturer in Creative Writing and, in 2002, became professor of English. He also served as visiting assistant professor of English at Cornell University and Lawrence University. During those two decades, he published six collections of poetry.
McFee has spent his professional career supporting and promoting North Carolina literature. He edited an anthology of contemporary North Carolina poetry in 1994 and compiled an anthology of short stories by North Carolina writers six years later. In 1996, McFee became coordinator of the Second Sunday Reading Series, a series started by author Doris Betts to bring writers with North Carolina roots to Chapel Hill.
McFee has won numerous awards and fellowships for teaching and writing, including a Discovery/ The Nation Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing. He lives in Durham, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection contains material related to North Carolina poet Michael McFee's writing, including drafts of poems and essays written between 1970 and 2002. Subjects of McFee's essays include writers A. R. Ammons, Doris Betts, and Fred Chappell. Material pertaining to McFee's published collections of poetry consists primarily of drafts, correspondence about publication matters, reviews and comments, and promotional material. Papers related to DoubleTake concern the selection of poems for publication in the magazine. Material from the Second Sunday Reading Series includes promotional pieces, drafts of reader introductions, and plans for the tenth anniversary celebration of the Series. Personal letters related to McFee's work as a poet and editor are scattered throughout the collection.
Back to TopThe collection contains material related to North Carolina poet Michael McFee's writing, including drafts of poems and essays written between 1970 and 2002. Subjects of McFee's essays include writers A. R. Ammons, Doris Betts, and Fred Chappell. Material pertaining to McFee's published collections of poetry consists primarily of drafts, correspondence about publication matters, reviews and comments, and promotional material. Papers related to DoubleTake concern the selection of poems for publication in the magazine. Material from the Second Sunday Reading Series includes promotional pieces, drafts of reader introductions, and plans for the tenth anniversary celebration of the Series. Personal letters related to McFee's work as a poet and editor are scattered throughout the collection.
Folder 1-10
Folder 1Folder 2Folder 3Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10 |
Vanishing Acts (1989) |
Folder 11-26
Folder 11Folder 12Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26 |
Plain Air (1983) |
Folder 27-45
Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40Folder 41Folder 42Folder 43Folder 44Folder 45 |
The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat (1994) |
Folder 46-63 |
DoubleTake |
Folder 64-73 |
Drafts of poems, 1980s |
Folder 74-99 |
This Is Where We Live (2000) |
Folder 100-119 |
Drafts of poems, 1990s |
Folder 120-126 |
To See (1991) |
Folder 127-140 |
Sad Girl Sitting on a Running Board (1991) |
Folder 141-159 |
Drafts of poems, 1990s |
Folder 160-190 |
Drafts of essays, 1970s-2000 |
Folder 191-212 |
Drafts of poems, 1970s and 1980s |
Folder 213-221 |
Drafts of poems, 2000-2002 |
Folder 222-232 |
Second Sunday Readings, 1991-2002 |
Folder 233-235 |
Earthly(2001) |
Folder 236-250 |
Colander (1996) |
Image Folder PF-5099/1 |
Photographs |