Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series: Lola Haskins & Maureen Sherbondy
Schedule
Sun Nov 09 2025 at 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
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!Like Zeros, Like Pearls (Charlotte Lit Press, 2025) is Lola Haskins’ 16th book of poetry. The collection prior to that, Homelight (Charlotte Lit Press, 2023), was named Poetry Book of the Year by Southern Literary Review and the one before that, Asylum (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), was featured in the NY Times. Past honors include the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two narrative poetry prizes, a Florida's Eden prize for environmental writing, and the Emily Dickinson prize from Poetry Society of America. She has served as Honorary Chancellor for FSPA since 2016.
Maureen Sherbondy's poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Feminist Studies, Calyx, New York Quarterly, and many other journals. She has won the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest, the North Carolina Poet Laureate Prize, and other awards. Her most recent books are Lines in Opposition, Dancing with Dali, The Art of Departure, and The Body Remembers. Maureen holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She also writes fiction. www.maureensherbondy.com
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