Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series: Colin Dekeersgieter and Ashley Lumpkin

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!

Colin Dekeersgieter is the author of Opium and Ambergris (Kent State University Press, 2024), his debut collection and winner of the 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize judged by Marilyn Chin. A poet and teacher born in North Carolina and raised in Vermont, he holds an MA from the CUNY, Graduate Center, an MFA from New York University, and is a PhD candidate at UNC-CH. His work has appeared in Brink, The Greensboro Review, North American Review, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere

Ashley Lumpkin is the author of a hybrid-memoir, The Sad Stays (Scuppernong Editions, 2024), a candid look at her ongoing journey with mental health, as well as a full-length poetry collection, #AshleyLumpkin, and four chapbooks. She is a Georgia-raised, Carolina-based writer, editor, performance artist, and educator. Her book, I Hate You All Equally, recounts conversations from her years as a classroom teacher. She has been a competing member of the Bull City Slam Team since 2015 and currently serves as its coach