Events

Thu 5/10 7pm-8:30pm Flyleaf Poetry Reading & Open Mic Series (2nd Thursdays) Featured Poets:   Dorianne Laux, The Book of Men & Joseph Millar, Blue Rust 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: Dorianne Laux, The Book of Men (WW Norton) & Joseph Millar, Blue Rust (Carnegie Mellon Univ Press)   Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection of poetry, The Book of Men (W.W. Norton), “charge[s] through the summer of love into the present day, where she compassionately paints the smoky bars, graffiti, and addiction of urban life.” Winner of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship, she teaches at NC State and in Pacific University’s low residency program.         In his newest poetry collection, Blue Rust (Carnegie-Mellon 2012), Joseph Millar “looks hard at a world that is doomed and beautiful.” He received a Guggenheim fellowship this year. He has worked at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman, and now teaches in Pacific University’s low residency program.