Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series: Joan Barasovska & Joey Lew

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!

Joan Barasovska lives in Chapel Hill, NC. She is an officer of the North Carolina Poetry Society and hosts a monthly poetry
series at independent bookstore McIntyre’s Books. Joan has been nominated for “Best of the Net” and four times for a Pushcart Prize. Her books have been reviewed in Pedestal Magazine, Big City Lit, North Carolina Literary Review, and The Main Street Rag. She is the author of Birthing Age, Carrying Clare, Orange Tulips, and Unblessed, Unsung, published by Main Street Rag in 2025.

Joey Lew holds an MFA in poetry from UNCG and an MD from UCSF and is currently a surgical resident at Duke. She placed first in the 2020 William Carlos Williams National Poetry Competition and the 2022 Lough Mask Poetry Competition, was shortlisted at the 2023 Wolverhampton Literary Festival Poetry Competition and was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. Her work can be seen in a number of literary magazines including most recently The MacGuffin and The San Antonio Review. Her poetry can also be found in medical journals, including The Journal of Medical Humanities and the American Journal of Surgery. Insensible Losses is her first book.