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Southern content will flavor some of the works read on Nov. 4 by Natchez, Miss., poet Peter Buttross at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The free public reading of his poems will be at 3 p.m. at UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, located at 410 E. Franklin St. Those wishing to attend should contact Lisa Beavers at (919) 962-0503 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Buttross’ books include “Natchez Cantos” (Red Dawn Press, 2001) and “Beyond the Bars: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose from a Mississippi Prison” (Red Dawn Press, 2004), which he edited with Thomas McNeely Jr. “Beyond the Bars” resulted from a Great Books Discussion Club the two lead in four Mississippi prisons.

Buttross has traveled to France as a Fulbright Scholar, Belgium as a Rotary International Fellow and Germany as a soldier in the U.S. Army. He pursued a career in banking before becoming a full-time poet in the mid 1990s.

Center for the Study of the American South contact: Lisa Beavers, (919) 962-0503, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .