Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series: Len Lawson and Christopher Shipman
Schedule
Sun Jul 12 2026 at 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd (Historic Airport Rd, Next to The Root Cellar), Chapel Hill, NC, United States, North Carolina 27514 | Chapel Hill, NC
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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!Len Lawson is author of New Names for Stars, winner of the Lit Fox Award (Lit Fox Books, 2026), Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023), and Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019). He is also editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair Press, 2021) and Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford Press, 2017). He has received fellowships from Tin House Summer Workshop, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Callaloo Barbados, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. His poetry appears in African American Review, Callaloo, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, and has been translated internationally. Len earned a PhD in English Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte. Born and living in South Carolina, he is Director of African American Studies and Assistant Professor of English at Newberry College.
Christopher Shipman lives in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches literature & creative writing at New Garden Friends School & plays drums in The Goodbye Horses. His work appears in journals such as Fence, New Ohio Review, Sixth Finch, Poetry, & The Southern Review, among many others. His experimental play Metaphysique D’ Ephemera has been staged at four universities & he is the author or coauthor of six books & four chapbooks. Mortar, his most recent collection, won the 2024 Brick Road Poetry Prize & has been supported by the NC Arts Council. More at www.cshipmanwriting.com
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