Events

Thurs 5/12 7pm-8:30pm (social time @ 5:45 in Foster’s Market next door) Flyleaf Poetry Reading & Open Mic Series (2nd  Thursdays) Featured Poets: Joseph Bathanti & Irene Blair Honeycutt This monthly reading series is co-hosted by Stan Absher and Debra Kaufman and sponsored by Flyleaf Books.  An informal get-together before the reading will begin around 5:45 at the Chapel Hill Foster’s, next door to Flyleaf. Please join the group for an hour of conversation. Featured readers will each read for approximately 20 minutes and, after a short break for the readers to sign books, there will be an open mic. Please sign up to read no later than 7 pm. This month’s featured  poets: Joseph Bathanti is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Restoring Sacred Art (winner of the 2010 Roanoke Chowan Prize). His latest novel, Coventry, won the 2006 Novello Literary Award, and his book of stories, The High Heart, won the 2006 Spokane Prize. He teaches at Appalachian State University. “Joseph Bathanti is a strong, eloquent voice. … His poems emanate from deep within himself, a world of rich ethnic ties, … luminous details, and holy mysteries. These are poems of restoration.” – Jay Parini         Irene Blair Honeycutt is the author of three poetry books--Waiting for the Trout to Speak, It Comes as a Dark Surprise, and Before the Light Changes (a finalist for the 2009 Brockman-Campbell Book Award)--and the children’s book The Prince with the Golden Hair.   “Irene Honeycutt use[s] her past to create poems that touch the reader’s heart as she probes the machinations of her own. Before the Light Changes is further proof that … Honeycutt is one of North Carolina’s finest poets.” – Ron Rash