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Wednesday 

6:30pm-8:30pm

Sacrificial Poets
Open Mic (every 1st & 3rd Wed)

The Sacrificial Poets and Flyleaf Books are teaming up to
provide a community wide open mic every 1st and 3rd Wednesday night. Come share
or listen to poems, prose, songs, or any other personal expression with an
audience of open minds and ears.
This event is open to contributors of all ages. 

The Sacrificial Poets are North Carolina’s only youth
Performance Poetry Team, composed of youth ages 13-19 from the Chapel
Hill-Durham area. The students are chosen in a local competition (Slam) and
required to attend practices, workshops, and local community performances. Now
in their fifth year, they teach how to work effectively in a team environment;
learn to effectively express themselves through poetry and performance; learn
how to become community opinion leaders and change makers in the community.  Sacrificial Poets recently formed a
partnership with the St. Josephs Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center in
Durham, and with these partners are striving to make Sacrificial Poets summer
camps and after school programs a reality in 2010.

Last year the new 2009 team reached the semi-finals at
Youth Speaks Brave New Voices in Chicago and placed top eight out of fifty plus
teams from around the globe. While at BNV, Sacrificial Poets members G Yamazawa
and Jake Jacoby were featured in the Youth Speaks annual Speak Green
competition. While this success demonstrates the caliber of our youth poets,
the true measure of our accomplishments lies in their fundamental growth as
human beings. Their achievements both on and off the stage demonstrate the
power of poetry as a tool for personal development and social change.

Thursday

10:30am
Pre-School storytime

Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday
morning at 10:30am

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Thursday

02/18/10   7pm-8pm

Ed Southern reads
from Parlous Angels: Stories

Ed Southern was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
and began making up characters and stories shortly after. Before he was 10
years old, his mother had decided that “either this child is going to be a
writer, or we’re going to have to spend a fortune on therapy for him.”  (Whether that was a valid either/or
proposition is still to be determined.) Southern’s previous work, all
nonfiction, includes The Jamestown Adventure, Voices of the American Revolution
in the Carolinas, and Sports in the Carolinas. 
He lives in Winston-Salem, and is executive director of the North
Carolina Writers’ Network.

 “Ed Southern's
stories are about hard work and hard times and what is required of a boy to
become a man in such a place and time. They are also about class—that taboo
subject in America—and about anger, love, and yearning. Carefully written, with
the best dialogue I've read in years, these terrific and utterly original
stories are made to last—like a stone pathway or a brick wall.”

— Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill and The Last
Girls

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Friday

2/19/10   7pm-8:30pm

William Ferris gives a multimedia
presentation on Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices
of the Mississippi Blues

Throughout
the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi,
documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed
the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now,
Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front
and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices
from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs
of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music and
a DVD of original film, the book features more than twenty interviews relating frank,
dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart
of the American South.

Here are
the stories of artists who have long memories and speak eloquently about their
lives, blues musicians who represent a wide range of musical traditions—from
one-strand instruments, bottle-blowing, and banjo to spirituals, hymns, and
prison work chants. Celebrities such as B. B. King and Willie Dixon, along with
performers known best in their neighborhoods, express the full range of human
and artistic experience—joyful and gritty, raw and painful.

In an
autobiographical introduction, Ferris reflects on how he fell in love with the vibrant
musical culture that was all around him but considered off limits to a white Mississippian
during a troubled era. This magnificent volume illuminates blues music, the
broader African American experience, and indeed the history and culture of
America itself.

William
Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate
director of the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC- Chapel Hill.
A former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris co
edited the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and is the author of Blues from the Delta.  Rolling Stone magazine has named him among the
top ten professors in the United States.

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Saturday

2/20/10  9:30am-11:00am

Writers Support Group Meeting: Voice to the World

The goal of the group is to encourage budding and already published writers to
finish their writing projects by providing support, encouragement, and
constructive critiques.    The meeting is
coordinated by Vonyee Carrington, who has written since a teenager but has
recently published a book of women's writings called Steps for Destiny: Poems, Stories and Experiences of Women.  This
meeting is open to the public and is free of charge.

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Saturday

02/20/10  2pm-3pm

Jenifer Bubenik discusses her novel Thoughts from the Chicken Bus

Reeling from the loss of her relationship and burnt out
from her high-stress politico job, Jenifer Bubenik grabbed her resignation
letter off the printer and walked into her boss' office. Unaware of where to go
next, and stuck in a funk, she logged online and cashed in her airline miles to
book a ticket to Belize, unaware of where the country was really even located;
simply knowing that nine days from then her life would be transformed from
depression and desperation to sunshine and umbrella drinks. Armed with little
more than hiking boots and pepper spray,  the 29 year old set out solo to Central
America; with the goal to push her job and relationship out of her mind. What
began as a three-week restorative breathing trip soon ended up as a three-month
adventure through the back jungles, active volcanoes, and desolate beaches far
beyond the safety-net of Belize.

Jenifer Bubenik grew up in Texas and North Carolina. She is a graduate of
Appalachian State University and lives in San Diego. Thoughts From the Chicken Bus is her first novel.   Prior to writing this book, she worked in
government relations.

Entertaining novelist and poet Joanna Catherine Scott tells the story behind the writing of The Road fromChapel Hill and Child of the South.  

Thursday

10:30am
Pre-School storytime

Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday
morning at 10:30am

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Friday

2/26/09  7-8pm

Terrence Holt
reads from In The Valley of the Kings

Flyleaf Books is thrilled to host a local author who is making national literary waves. In the Valley of
the Kings marks the extraordinary debut of Terrence Holt, who fifteen years
ago abandoned a promising writing career to practice medicine. Moved by his
patients’ valor in the face of death, seeking to comprehend the mysteries
revealed at their bedside, Holt has taken up fiction again. He emerges now with
this astonishing collection of one novella and seven short stories that explore
the farthest reaches of the imagination in a style that recalls the
nineteenth-century American masters.

Holt leaps across genres and millennia, from small-town
America to deep space, daring his readers to journey with him into realms as
mysterious as they are unforgettable. The opening story, “‘Ο Λογοσ,” is a
chilling account of the last days of the human race, as the hospitalization of
a little girl in a New England town heralds a terrifying plague, transmitted
not by a microbe but by a single word. The final story, “Apocalypse,” returns
to small-town New England and another vision of the end, in an intimate account
of how a couple struggles to live and love under the shadow of the Earth’s
approaching doom. In between, these stories range from outer space, where—in
“Charybdis”—an astronaut alone on a doomed NASA mission comes to terms with his
fate, to the Egyptian desert of the title novella, where an archaeologist seeks
a fabulous tomb that holds the secret of immortality. Painting with lurid
colors and finely crafted prose, Holt offers his readers haunting visions of
the reefs and abysses of the human imagination. In the Valley of the Kings
redefines the art of the story, throwing aside the rules in search of the
enduring truths that ultimately make stories worth reading.

    “American short
fiction in particular—from Poe and Hawthorne to the present—unfurls at
midnight: a dark affair emphasizing our want of health in a civilization gone
sick. Terrence Holt’s first story collection, In the Valley of the Kings, now
joins the brigade....These stories will endue for as long as our hurt kind
remains to require the truth.” — William Giraldi, The New York Times Book Review

    “Starred
Review. In his debut collection, practicing physician Holt takes on the big
cosmological questions in stunning fashion, recalling writers like Conrad,
Hawthorne, and Melville in the scope of his interests and the grandeur of his
style....This collection represents a life's work of stories that are not well
known outside of the readership of literary journals. That's about to change,
and it's a good thing.” — Library Journal

    “Starred
Review. In this haunting collection, Holt's lush language pulls literary
treasures out of dark places, bringing readers ice from the rings of Saturn
'where seeing and vanishing are one,' a cartouche from deep within an ancient
tomb and the late-night conversations of a married couple awaiting the end of
the world....This collection, with its allusions to mythology and tragic
conundrums, demands intelligence and rewards the reader with Borgesian riches.”
— Publishers Weekly

Saturday

1/23/10  10am-12pm

Your Story
Writer’s Group (meets every 4th Saturday)

The focus of this informal group is personal writing and
memoir prep.  Sessions will use focused
writing, micro-instruction, prompts and critique.  This is an informal and open group and there
is no fee for participation. Facilitated by Gaines Steer, Personal Historian
and proprietor of Creative Writing Services in Orange County.

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Rescheduled from Sat 1/30 due to winter storm:

Saturday

2/06/10  6:00pm-8:00pm

Sacrificial PoetsYouth Poetry Slam

Sacrificial Poets will be hosting several youth slams (ages13-19) this year up until April to select its 2010 slam team. The top 6 poetswill earn a place on the team and an opportunity to travel and represent ChapelHill / Durham, NC at the International Brave New Voices Competition in LosAngeles, California. We encourage all community members to come support andenjoy spoken word by some of the best local youth poets around. 

The Sacrificial Poets are North Carolina’s only youthPerformance Poetry Team, composed of youth ages 13-19 from the ChapelHill-Durham area to compete in international competition. The students are chosen in a local competition (Slam) andrequired to attend practices, workshops, and local community performances. Nowin their fifth year, they teach how to work effectively in a team environment;learn to effectively express themselves through poetry and performance; learnhow to become community opinion leaders and change makers in thecommunity.  Sacrificial Poets recentlyformed a partnership with the St. Josephs Historic Foundation/Hayti HeritageCenter in Durham, and with these partners are striving to make Sacrificial Poetssummer camps and after school programs a reality in 2010.

Last year the new 2009 team reached the semi-finals atYouth Speaks Brave New Voices in Chicago and placed top eight out of fifty plusteams from around the globe. While at BNV, Sacrificial Poets members G Yamazawaand Jake Jacoby were featured in the Youth Speaks annual Speak Greencompetition. While this success demonstrates the caliber of our youth poets,the true measure of our accomplishments lies in their fundamental growth ashuman beings. Their achievements both on and off the stage demonstrate thepower of poetry as a tool for personal development and social change.

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Sunday

2/28/09  12pm-1pm

Mystery authors
reading: The Triple Threat Tour: Hank Phillippi Ryan, Karen E. Olson &
Julie Hyzy

The Triple Threat
Tour will visit North Carolina in February!

Agatha Award winner Hank Phillippi Ryan, Sara Ann Freed
Memorial Award winner Karen E. Olson, and Barry and Anthony Award winner Julie
Hyzy will join us. All these women are
great traditional mystery writers—each with her own personal twist on the
genre.

Multiple EMMY award winner Hank Phillippi Ryan is an
on-air investigative reporter for Boston's NBC affiliate. Her fictional
doppelganger Charlotte "Charlie" McNally titles include Prime Time
(winner), Face Time, Air Time, and Drive Time (Feb. 2010).

Karen E. Olson is a journalism veteran of 20 years who
now edits a medical journal at Yale University. Her Tattoo Shop series set in
Las Vegas includes The Missing Ink and Pretty in Ink (Feb. 2010). Her series
featuring New Haven police reporter Annie Seymour includes award winner Sacred
Cows, Secondhand Smoke, Dead of the Day, and Shot Girl.

Armed with a degree in business Julie Hyzy held several
positions in that field before deciding that writing fiction was her passion.
Her books include the White House Chef series featuring Ollie Paras, Hail to
the Chef, State of the Onion (award winner), and Eggsecutive Orders (Jan.
2010); the Alex St. James news reporter series Deadly Blessings, Deadly
Interest, and Dead Ringer; and a stand-alone, Artistic License.

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Monday

03/01/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Ben White
discusses Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide

A talk sponsored
by the Coalition for Peace with Justice

Indispensable for the Palestinian solidarity movement,
Israeli Apartheid distills the work of academics and experts into a highly
readable introduction. This is the book to read if you want to understand the
root of the conflict and how apartheid applies to the situation in Palestine.
Ben White begins by succinctly explaining the origins of Zionist theory and colonization
and details the treatment of Palestinians during the creation of Israel in 1948
then proceeds to examine current examples of Israeli apartheid. Packed with
absorbing content, the book is rooted in the author's extensive on-the-ground
experience in the region. It also includes short testimonies by Palestinians
who describe how Israeli apartheid affects their daily lives.

Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer
specializing in Palestine/Israel. He also writes on the broader Middle East,
Islam and Christianity, and the 'war on terror.' Ben has been to
Palestine/Israel many times since 2003 and has a BA in English Literature from
Cambridge University.

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Wednesday 

03/03/10   6:30pm-8:30pm

Sacrificial Poets Open Mic (every
1st & 3rd Wed)

The
Sacrificial Poets and Flyleaf Books are teaming up to provide a community wide
open mic every 1st and 3rd Wednesday night. Come share or listen to poems,
prose, songs, or any other personal expression with an audience of open minds
and ears. This event is open to contributors of all ages.

The
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composed of youth ages 13-19 from the Chapel Hill-Durham area. The students are
chosen in a local competition (Slam) and required to attend practices,
workshops, and local community performances. Now in their fifth year, they
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through poetry and performance, and learn how to become community opinion
leaders and change makers in the community. 
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poetry as a tool for personal development and social change.  The Sacrificial Poets recently formed a
partnership with the St. Josephs Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center in
Durham, and with these partners are striving to make Sacrificial Poets summer
camps and after school programs a reality in 2010.

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Thursday

03/04/10  10:30am
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Thursday

03/04/10  7:00pm
Michele Murdock discusses  A Journey of Courage:  The Amazing Story of Sister Dorothy Stang

Sister Dorothy Stang, an American missionary, was
murdered in 2005 in the Brazilian forest. Sister Dorothy was no stranger to
violence. For 40 years she had dedicated her life to bringing faith and justice
to the peasant settlers of

Brazil. She taught them how to form communities, to farm
for their living, to defend their human rights, and to work for social justice.
She helped to build more than thirty schools and chapels. And, she challenged
the land-greedy, illegal ranchers who were destroying the Amazon rain forest.
These ranchers threatened farmers, burned homes and even killed those who stood
up to them. They wanted her dead. They succeeded. A Journey of Courage tells
the story of Dorothy Stang’s extraordinary life, from a childhood in Ohio to
her tragic death in a faraway country that she loved.  In December 2008, Sister Dorothy Stang was
awarded the United Nations Human Rights Prize, posthumously, on the 60th
anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.

Michele Murdock, a graduate of Trinity College,
Washington D.C., is President of Murdock Communications, a media developer and
producer.

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Friday

03/05/10  7pm-8pm

Dr. Donnell Scott
discusses Workplace Politics: Survive and Advance

Workplace
Politics: Survive and Advance

Dr. Donnell Scott will be on hand to discuss his book Workplace Politics: Survive and Advance,
which teaches the reader how to successfully navigate through office
politics.  Though the book is ideal for
individuals just starting out in their careers, the book is not necessarily
geared towards any particular group of working adults.

Dr. Scott, after a long career with the IBM Corporation,
sought new challenges that have led him to his present position, Director of
the Executive Master of Public Administration Program (EMPA) at North Carolina
Central University (NCCU) in Durham, NC. 
Dr. Scot is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Public
Administration at NCCU, where he teaches Administrative Leadership and Ethics
in the Master of Public Administration program. He has conducted numerous
professional development workshops aligned with politics in the workplace. Dr.
Scott designed and taught Non-Profit Workplace Politics for the Duke University
School of Continuing Education, and created and implemented the Real World
Workplace Experience Initiative for the School of Graduate Studies at North
Carolina Central University. He has conducted Twenty- First Century Public
Administration workshops in Ghana for the University of Ghana, Legon Campus,
and created and implemented Central Government Internships for EMPA students for
the Liberian Government in Liberia. 

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Saturday

03/06/10  9:30am-11:00am

Writers Support
Group Meeting: Voice to the World

The goal of the group is to encourage budding and already
published writers to finish their writing projects by providing support,
encouragement, and constructive critiques.   
The meeting is coordinated by Vonyee Carrington, who has written since a
teenager but has recently published a book of women's writings called Steps for Destiny: Poems, Stories and
Experiences of Women.  This meeting is open to the public and is free
of charge.

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Saturday

03/06/10  2:00pm-3:00pm

Sonja Lillvik discusses and shares food from her cookbook memoir: The Painted
Fish and Other Mayan Feasts

Sonja Lillvik has lived 25 years as an expatriate on the
Yucatan peninsula with her Mayan fisherman husband, Armando Lopez.  Together they opened the rustic tourist
destination  known as Cuzan Guest House
in Punta Allen, Mexico. Cuzan’s restaurant features fresh seafood and other
Yucatec Maya meals.

Lillvik has written The
Painted Fish and Other Mayan Feasts, an edible memoir from the back roads
and beaches of the Yucatan a deliciously romantic Riviera Maya cookbook.  Drawing on her intimate knowledge of
contemporary Maya cuisine, she translated authentic thousand-year-old recipes
as well as modern Maya fare for the ease and convenience of the
English-speaking cook.  Throughout the
cookbook, Lillvik reveals culinary tips and “Maya Secretos” including the truly
burning issue of Chile Safety!

Tracing the lives of Sonja and Armando through recipes,
drawings and photos will give you a glimpse of the riches of the daily life of
these two adventures that pioneered eco-tourism in Punta Allen, Mexico.  Cuzan Guest House, their home base for twenty
five years, attracts the intrepid traveler and lures saltwater fly-fishing
enthusiasts to this remote fishing village located in the world biosphere of
Sian Ka’an Reserve, a UNESCO Historic Heritage Site.

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Tuesday

03/09/10  11:30-am-12:30pm

Martha Dow
Fehsenfeld, co-editor, discusses The
Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol 1, 1929–1940

Martha “Marty” Dow Fehsenfeld will discuss the critically
acclaimed collection she co-edited of Samuel Beckett’s letters.

The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and
1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark
the gradual emergence of Beckett’s unique voice and sensibility.

The only authorized publication of Beckett’s selected
letters, this volume offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters
of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.

Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15,000
extant letters, they include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as
well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues in the world of
literature and theatre. For anyone interested in twentieth-century literature
and theatre this edition is essential reading.

Praise for The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol 1,
1929–1940:

'It would hardly seem possible were the evidence not
right here: Samuel Beckett, that most taciturn and private of 20th-century
writers - the man who said 'every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence
and nothingness' - was in fact one of the century’s great correspondents. …
reading it is far from homework: the Beckett we meet in these piquant letters,
most written when he was in his late 20s and early 30s, is rude, mordantly
witty and scatological yet often (and this is perhaps the biggest surprise)
affectionate and wholehearted. … There are many moments in these letters when
it seems Samuel Beckett can’t go on. But as we await Volumes 2, 3 and 4 of his
busy correspondence, it’s exceedingly clear that, happily, he will go on.' The
New York Times

'This is an extraordinary work of scholarship … the
taciturn youth who became an artist of studied silences turns out to have been
an inveterate letter writer - and, what's more, a fine one, which can't be said
for many authors … The correspondent who so frequently signs himself 'Sam'
emerges from these letters a fully fleshed human being, by turns arrogant and
kindly, depressed and determined.' Los Angeles Times

'What this selection of letters reveals is not the great
writer to come but an extraordinarily brilliant, tormentedly self-conscious and
unhappy young man with a compelling urge to write. … Beckett knew too much and
felt too much about what he knew. … This first of a promised four volumes (to
include 2,500 out of a total 15,000 items of correspondence) represents already
a heroic achievement by the editors who embarked on the project nearly a
quarter of a century ago. … The editorial team deserves all our thanks for
their patience, their stamina and their scholarly rigour. Tom Stoppard is
quoted on the back cover saying 'one must hope to stay alive until the fourth
volume is safely delivered'. Agreed – we must wait on for the later, greater
Beckett.' The Irish Times

‘For Beckett enthusiasts, these letters are crammed with
unexpected treasures.’ The Sunday Times Culture '… an edition more sumptuous
than one ever imagined …' The Washington Post

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Public Meeting in the Flyleaf Events Space:

Transition Carrboro – Chapel Hill (www.transitioncch.org)  is a group of individuals and organizations
growing a pathway towards a positive local future that meets our needs in the
context of the twin challenges of climate change and the end of cheap oil.  We are part of an international, grassroots
network called The Transition Network. 
We follow the Transition Towns Model developed by Rob Hopkins in his
book The Transition Handbook.  Transition Carrboro – Chapel Hill is
composed entirely of volunteer
members from the Chapel Hill and Carrboro community. Our members are concerned
about the local community, and are interested in making a difference in some
small way.

Today’s meeting will include two
20-minute videos from the Powerdown Show, which is a 10-part TV series that
takes a fresh and engaging look at the community responses to the converging
challenges of climate change and peak oil. A discussion period will follow the
film showings.

The Transition Handbook and The Transition Timeline will be available for purchase at Flyleaf
books but pre-ordering by 5pm Sunday 3/7 is recommended to ensure you have a
copy for this meeting.

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Thursday

03/11/10  10:30am
Pre-School Storytime & Activity

Please join us for pre-school storytime and activity every Thursday
morning at 10:30am

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Thursday

03/11/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Main Street Rag Publishing
Co Reading & Open Mic Series (every 2nd  Thursday)
Featured Authors: Jason Mott & Maureen Sherbondy

Main Street Rag Publishing Company have joined together  as the newest location for the Main Street Rag
Reading Series.  Every Second Thursday at
7pm, co-hosts Debra Kaufman and Stan Absher will start the evening by introducing
two of our authors as featured readers, followed by an Open Mic.  Readers, writers and appreciators of poetry,
short fiction and creative non-fiction are invited to join in.

The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, a bindery and a
publisher based in Charlotte, has published a quarterly print magazine since
1996. Among its features are poetry, short fiction, photography and graphic
images, essays, interviews, reviews, cartoons and commentary.  MSR also publishes poetry through their
annual chapbook and full-length poetry collection contests.  They also help writers self-publish their
works; from design, layout and printing to shipping the books out.

Jason Mott received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in Creative
Writing from UNC Wilmington.  His fiction and poetry has been published in
journals such as The Thomas Wolfe Review, Chautauqua and Measure.  He was
also recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for Poetry.  When he's not
writing poetry about the subject of love, he spends his time writing poetry
about the subject of superheroes.

Maureen Sherbondy received a BA degree from Rutgers
University. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including European Judaism, Calyx, Feminist Studies,
13th Moon, Cairn, Comstock Review, Crucible, The Roanoke Review and
the Raleigh News & Observer. Her poems have won first place in: The Deane
Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize, The Lyricist
Statewide Poetry Contest, and the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award from Kent
State University. Main Street Rag published her first book, After the Fairy Tale, in 2007. Praying at Coffee Shops was published in
2008. Her short story collection, The
Slow Vanishing, was released in 2009.

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Friday 3/12  7pm-8pm

Gen Kelsang Tilopa,
resident teacher of Kosala Buddhist Center, will give a talk “The Source of
Happiness” based on the book 8 Steps to
Happiness by Kadampa Meditation Master Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

This event is
sponsored by the Kosala Buddhist Center of Chapel Hill (meditationinchapelhill.org)

"Eight Steps to Happiness" is a commentary on a
12th Century poem which describes the complete path to pure peace and happiness
to be found only within our mind.

Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but
very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. We tend
to look for happiness outside ourself.

We spend almost all our time adjusting our external world,
but we still fail to find pure and lasting happiness.

If our mind is pure and peaceful we will be happy regardless
of our external circumstances, but if it 

is unpure and unpeaceful we can never be happy no matter how
hard we try to change our external circumstances.

Gen Kelsang Tilopa will explain the meaning of this eight
verse poem, and show how to engage in the practice of "Eight Steps to Happiness".

Prompt Writing with Nancy Peacock

Serious writing begins with playful writing. Please join this unique ongoing group of supportive adult writers and play your way into the possibilities of the written word.

Based on the work of Natalie Goldberg (WRITING DOWN THE BONES, WILD MIND) we set a timer for fifteen minutes and write using prompts as our launch pads. This class is free and open to the public.Come early, grab a coffee at Foster's and get a good seat!

Nancy Peacock’s first book LIFE WITHOUT WATER was published and chosen as a New York Times ON WRITING, HOUSECLEANING, AND LIFE.  Nancy lives in Chatham County and runs writing workshops in her studio and this Prompt Writing class every second Saturday at Flyleaf Books.
Notable Book. It was followed a few years later by another novel HOME ACROSS THE ROAD and most recently by a work of nonfiction, A BROOM OF ONE’S OWN: WORDS

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Saturday

03/13/10  2pm-3pm 
*Kids Event*  Ages 9-12

John Claude Bemis:
The Nine Pound Hammer: Book 1 of The
Clockwork Dark

In his debut middle grade adventure, former elementary
school teacher John Claude Bemis asks the question “What if the legendary John
Henry had a son?” THE NINE POUND HAMMER: Book 1 of the Clockwork Dark offers
young readers a fresh approach to epic fantasy, unearthing characters from
American folklore and sending them on a wild ride through the post–Civil War
South.  The misty magic of Appalachia
lends both the history and the mystery to the first book in this riveting
trilogy.   

In his debut novel, John Claude Bemis takes American tall
tales and reinvents them in a fresh and exciting manner. The Ramblers,
defenders of the natural world, must take up arms in the 1890s South against
their ancient foes: industry and machinery. This series harkens back to time
when man was one with the soil beneath his feet, a fascinating topic to tackle
in today’s environment of green awareness. While young readers will recognize
the timeliness of this subject, they will also be entertained by the medley of
sideshow performers—the fire-eater, the sword swallower, the strong man, and
the crocodile-riding queen of pirates!

John Claude Bemis grew up in rural North Carolina, where
he loved reading the Jack tales and African American trickster stories, as well
as fantasy and science fiction classics. A songwriter and musician in an
American roots band, John found inspiration for his fiction in old-time country
and blues music and the Southern folklore at its heart. John lives with his
family in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he was an elementary school
teacher for 11 years before becoming a full-time writer.

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Sat  3/13 
4-5pm

Ages: Kindergarten
to adult

Passover Story
time featuring Tilda Balsley and her book Let
My People Go!

The Passover story will come alive when Let My People Go! author Tilda Balsley
is performed at this special story time. With clever rhyme and zany pictures, the
saga of the ten plagues is presented in a Readers' Theater format, sure to
enlighten and amuse readers young and old as the audience is encouraged to
participate. From the Burning Bush to the crossing of the Red Sea, the
imaginative retelling features parts for a Narrator, Moses, Pharaoh, the
Egyptians, and a chorus.  

The telling of
other Passover stories will be told after the feature presentation.

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Wednesday 

03/17/10  

6:30pm-8:30pm

Sacrificial Poets
Open Mic (every 1st & 3rd Wed)  Open to all ages

The Sacrificial Poets and Flyleaf Books are teaming up to
provide a community wide open mic every 1st and 3rd Wednesday night. Come share
or listen to poems, prose, songs, or any other personal expression with an audience
of open minds and ears. 

The Sacrificial Poets are North Carolina’s only youth
Performance Poetry Team, composed of youth ages 13-19 from the Chapel
Hill-Durham area. The students are chosen in a local competition (Slam) and
required to attend practices, workshops, and local community performances. Now
in their fifth year, they teach how to work effectively in a team environment;
learn to effectively express themselves through poetry and performance; learn
how to become community opinion leaders and change makers in the
community.  Sacrificial Poets recently
formed a partnership with the St. Josephs Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage
Center in Durham, and with these partners are striving to make Sacrificial Poets
summer camps and after school programs a reality in 2010.

Last year the new 2009 team reached the semi-finals at
Youth Speaks Brave New Voices in Chicago and placed top eight out of fifty plus
teams from around the globe. While at BNV, Sacrificial Poets members G Yamazawa
and Jake Jacoby were featured in the Youth Speaks annual Speak Green
competition. While this success demonstrates the caliber of our youth poets,
the true measure of our accomplishments lies in their fundamental growth as
human beings. Their achievements both on and off the stage demonstrate the
power of poetry as a tool for personal development and social change.

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Thursday

03/18/10  10:30am
Pre-School storytime & activity

Please join us for pre-school storytime and activity
every Thursday morning at 10:30am

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Thursday

3/18/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Andrew Park
discusses BETWEEN A CHURCH AND A HARD PLACE: One Faith-Free Father’s Struggle
to Understand What it Means to be Religious (or Not)

When his three-year-old son first said the word “God,” panic
erupted over Park’s face. Teaching his children about ethics, good manners,
penmanship and the perfect free throw were no problem for Park. But when his
son started asking about religion, he was stumped. Raised without a religious
tradition in a family where teenage rebellion meant being born again as an
Evangelical Christian (as his brother did), Park always believed he’d be a
nonbeliever. But when his children confronted him with questions, Park knew it
was time to find the answers.

In BETWEEN A CHURCH AND A HARD PLACE Park takes
readers along on his tour through religion in America on his quest to find a
comfortable middle ground for himself and his family.  Colorful and
though-provoking, Park chronicles his explorations through the varied and often
contradictory influences of religion in his life so far ― his great-grandfather’s pioneering role in the
Pentecostal movement of the early 20th century, his liberal
intellectual parents’ rejection of the Protestant faiths in which they were
raised, his childhood in the Bible Belt city that produced Billy Graham and Jim
Bakker, and witnessing his older brother’s rebellious immersion in a
Charismatic church.

Along the way, Park grapples with what it means to be
irreligious in an exceptionally religious society and whether peaceful coexistence
with people of faith can ever truly be achieved. With the perfect blend of
humor and humility, he uncovers what it means to embrace religion–or not–while
still being a good role model, and most importantly, still being true to
himself.