Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series: Michael Hettich & Mackenzie Kozak

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Sun, 14 Sep, 2025 at 02:30 pm

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Flyleaf Books | 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!
Michael Hettich’s most recent book of poetry, The Halo of Bees: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2022 won the 2024 Brockman-Campbell Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in many journals and anthologies, and he has published more than a dozen books of poetry across four decades. His other honors include several Individual Artist Fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, the David Martinson/Meadowhawk Prize, a Florida Book Award, the Lena M. Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the inaugural Hudson-Fowler Prize from Slant magazine at the University of Central Arkansas. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Miami and taught for many years at Miami Dade College where he was awarded an Endowed Teaching Chair. A new book, And the Poet Said… was published in 2024. His website is michaelhettich.com.
Mackenzie Kozak is the author of no swaddle (University of Iowa Press, 2025), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the Iowa Poetry Prize. She holds a BA from Wake Forest University and an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, where she served as poetry editor of The Greensboro Review. Mackenzie's poetry appears in Boston Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, jubilat, Missouri Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She lives in Asheville, NC where she is an associate editor at Orison Books and works as a therapist specializing in grief counseling.
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