Nov 15
POETRY READING: Courtney Le Blanc & Alexa Patrick
Add to Calendar2023-11-15 19:00:002023-11-15 19:00:00America/HavanaPOETRY READING: Courtney Le Blanc & Alexa Patrick POETRY READING Courtney LeBlanc Alexa Patrick Wednesday, November 15, 2023  at  7:00 pm FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (RSVP required) Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full-length collections Her Whole Bright Life; Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She is the Arlington County Poet Laureate, a Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellow, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. Alexa Patrick is a vocalist and poet from Connecticut. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and more. Alexa is currently the Programs Director for Shout Mouse Press. In spring 2023, Alexa made her stage production debut as Un/Sung in the opera We Shall Not Be Moved, directed by Kennedy Center honors awardee Bill T. Jones. You may find her work in publications including The Adroit Journal, CRWN Magazine, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. Her debut collection Remedies for Disappearing will be published by Haymarket Books in June. Called "hauntingly beautiful" by the Southern Review of Books, LeBlanc's poems explore themes of self-awareness and loss, as in these lines from the poem I Don't Eat After 8 pm: I once read you shouldn’t eat after 8pm if you want to lose weight and I, a woman who hated her body for a decade, always wanted less to hate. The week my dad died I ate my mother’s pretzel dessert with a spoon, pan held beneath my chin like a trough, the salty-sweet combination filling my belly with calories I couldn’t begin to count. Patrick's poems seek connection while calling for movement toward social change, as in this excerpt from The Black Men Outside the Waterfront Safeway: are a steady ballet of hands, cipher of dab and dozen transform Southwest street corner into Carnegie Hall. I walk by. They quiet, shield me from what profanity fills the gaps in their teeth, those golden smiles, the slick tongues that make them. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. Doors open at 6:30 pm and program will begin 7:00 pm.  Discounted parking available  2001 Pennsylvania Ave. Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St NW Washington DC 20006Arts Club of Washingtonemail@gmail.com

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From:Wed, November 15, 2023
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7:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST

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Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St NW Washington DC 20006

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POETRY READING

Courtney LeBlanc

Alexa Patrick

Wednesday, November 15, 2023  at  7:00 pm

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

(RSVP required)

Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full-length collections Her Whole Bright Life; Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She is the Arlington County Poet Laureate, a Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellow, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press.

Alexa Patrick is a vocalist and poet from Connecticut. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and more. Alexa is currently the Programs Director for Shout Mouse Press. In spring 2023, Alexa made her stage production debut as Un/Sung in the opera We Shall Not Be Moved, directed by Kennedy Center honors awardee Bill T. Jones. You may find her work in publications including The Adroit Journal, CRWN Magazine, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. Her debut collection Remedies for Disappearing will be published by Haymarket Books in June.

Called "hauntingly beautiful" by the Southern Review of Books, LeBlanc's poems explore themes of self-awareness and loss, as in these lines from the poem I Don't Eat After 8 pm:

I once read you shouldn’t

eat after 8pm if you want to lose

weight and I, a woman who hated

her body for a decade, always wanted

less to hate. The week my dad died

I ate my mother’s pretzel dessert

with a spoon, pan held beneath

my chin like a trough, the salty-sweet

combination filling my belly with

calories I couldn’t begin to count.


Patrick's poems seek connection while calling for movement toward social change, as in this excerpt from The Black Men Outside the Waterfront Safeway:

are a steady ballet of hands,

cipher of dab and dozen

transform Southwest street corner

into Carnegie Hall.

I walk by. They quiet,

shield me from what profanity

fills the gaps in their teeth,

those golden smiles, the slick

tongues that make them.


The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.

Doors open at 6:30 pm and program will begin 7:00 pm. 

Discounted parking available  2001 Pennsylvania Ave.


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