Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series: Joseph Bathanti and Chelsea Krieg
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Join us for our Monthly Poetry series, an afternoon of poetic readings. Featured poets will each read for 20 minutes, followed by a short break to sign books, then an open mic. Please sign up by 2:30 pm, and limit your reading to one poem, one page. Hope to see you there!
Joseph Bathanti, former North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-14), is the recipient of the North Carolina Award in Literature, the state’s highest civilian literary honor; and an inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Author of over twenty books, Bathanti is McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Education at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and is the recipient of the Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award. He served as the 2016 Charles George VA Medical Center Writer-in-Residence in Asheville, NC, and is the co-founder of the Medical Center’s Creative Writing Program. His co-edited volume, The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry, from University of North Carolina Press, was released in February 2025. A novella, from Regal House Press, Too Glorious to Even Long for on Certain Days, appeared in summer 2025. His volume of poetry, Steady Daylight, from Louisiana State University Press, was published in February 2026.
Chelsea Krieg, was raised in southeastern Virginia. She is the author of Everything Is Water (Texas Review Press, 2026), which won the Virginia Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series. She received an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. Her work may be found in Fairy Tale Review, Writing the Land: Virginia Anthology, Terrain.org, Gulf Coast, New South, The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. IX: Virginia, and elsewhere. She was runner-up in Hub City’s New Southern Voices 2023 Poetry Prize and a finalist for the New South 2021 Poetry Prize. Chelsea lives in Durham, NC and teaches creative writing at North Carolina State University, where she also co-directs the MFA program. Find more about her work at www.chelseakrieg.com.
Joseph Bathanti, former North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-14), is the recipient of the North Carolina Award in Literature, the state’s highest civilian literary honor; and an inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Author of over twenty books, Bathanti is McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Education at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and is the recipient of the Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award. He served as the 2016 Charles George VA Medical Center Writer-in-Residence in Asheville, NC, and is the co-founder of the Medical Center’s Creative Writing Program. His co-edited volume, The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry, from University of North Carolina Press, was released in February 2025. A novella, from Regal House Press, Too Glorious to Even Long for on Certain Days, appeared in summer 2025. His volume of poetry, Steady Daylight, from Louisiana State University Press, was published in February 2026.
Chelsea Krieg, was raised in southeastern Virginia. She is the author of Everything Is Water (Texas Review Press, 2026), which won the Virginia Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series. She received an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. Her work may be found in Fairy Tale Review, Writing the Land: Virginia Anthology, Terrain.org, Gulf Coast, New South, The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. IX: Virginia, and elsewhere. She was runner-up in Hub City’s New Southern Voices 2023 Poetry Prize and a finalist for the New South 2021 Poetry Prize. Chelsea lives in Durham, NC and teaches creative writing at North Carolina State University, where she also co-directs the MFA program. Find more about her work at www.chelseakrieg.com.
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