Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry

Please join us Sunday September 14 at 2:30 pm, as we host poets Michael Hettich & Mackenzie Kozak. Each poet will read for about 20 minutes, followed by a short break to sign books, and then an Open Mic. (Please limit your reading to one poem, one page.)

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. mackenziekozak.com.

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 journals and anthologies, and he has published more than a dozen books of poetry across four decades. His 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. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Miami and taught for many years at Miami Dade College. A new book, And the Poet Said… was published in 2024. michaelhettich.com.

Come early to socialize and sign up for the Open Mic. Hope to see you there!