Flyleaf Second Sunday Poetry Series: Janis Harrington and J.S. Absher

Flyleaf Books is pleased to welcome back our regular Poetry Series! Join us on the Second Sunday of the month for an afternoon of poetic readings. All are welcome.

Janis Harrington’s second full-length book, How to Cut a Woman in Half, was a Finalist for the Able Muse Press Book Award. She won the Lena Shull Book Award, given by the North Carolina Poetry Society, for her first collection, Waiting for the Hurricane. In 2022, she was a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize and the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. A Chapel Hill resident, she has published poems in Tar River Poetry, Journal of the American Medical Association, and North Carolina Literary Review, and other journals.

Stan Absher’s first collection, Mouth Work, won the 2015 Lena Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. He is also the author of two chapbooks. His nonfiction books, Love Letters of a Mississippi Lawyer and My Own Life, or The Deserted Wife, were published in 2021. His poems have appeared in many journals including the North Carolina Literary Review, San Pedro River Review and Tar River Poetry. In 2018, he won the Larson Poetry Prize from BYU Studies Quarterly. He lives in Raleigh with his wife, Patti.