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!

Grey Brown is the author of two chapbooks, Staying In, winner of the North Carolina Writers' Network Chapbook contest, and When They Tell Me, and of two full length collections, What It Takes and Communion. Her poems have been published in Tar River Poetry, Greensboro Review, Cave Wall, Atlantic, Cold Mountain, JAMA and others. Her poem, “Don't Be So Serious” was nominated for a Pushcart in 2025. Grey has taught poetry and creative writing at Duke University, the Osher Institute for Life Long Learning and the NC Writers' Network. She lives in Chapel Hill with Nona, her cat and sometimes muse.

Michael Hettich’s most recent book of poems, Waking Up Alone, won the Lena M. Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. His previous book, A Sharper Silence, published by Terrapin Books in 2025, has been called a “heartfelt, heartbreaking collection” (Marie Harris), and his 2023 book, The Halo of Bees: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2022 won the 2024 Brockman-Campbell Book Award. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in many journals and anthologies. 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, and the inaugural Hudson-Fowler Prize from Slant magazine at the University of Central Arkansas. A book of interviews, And the Poet Said… was published in 2024. He lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina. His website is michaelhettich.com.