Rice resident earns multiple awards at statewide competition

Rice resident earns multiple awards at statewide competition

Local author and Rice resident Chapman Hood Frazier won three first-place awards in this year’s 2024 Poetry Society of Virginia’s annual competition.  Two of the poems will appear in his most recently completed though currently unpublished collection, Appalachian Sutra.  The third poem, Goldfinch on Thistle is a key poem in a collaborative collection of poetry and wood engravings titled A Prophecy of Birds and is still in production. His poem, O…