Flyleaf Poetry Reading & Open Mic Series feat Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar
05/10/2012 7:00 pm
Etc/GMT-4
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.
Location:
- Street:
- 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
- Additional:
- Next to Foster's Market & Kitchen
- City:
- Chapel Hill ,
- Province:
- North Carolina
- Postal Code:
- 27514
- Country:
- United States
