LMNL featuring Doc McLemore, T. Clark, Justin Lacour, & Rickey Laurentiis!

Come join us at Twelve Mile Limit for a night of incredible readings and performances!

Doc McLemore is a writer based out of New Orleans. Their first book, Someday We Won’t Remember This: a Forensic Memoir of My Father’s Secrets, will be released in Fall 2026 with University Press of Kentucky.

T Clark's short story collection All This Want (and I Can't Get None) comes out June 2026 with One World Books. Their fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. A member of Intramural Theater Company, they live and write in New Orleans.

Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans with his wife and three children and edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. His first full-length collection of poems, A Reading from the Book of Panic, was recently published by Lavender Ink.

Rickey Laurentiis was born & raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, to be reacquainted with the light. Boy with Thorn, their debut book, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Levis Reading Prize, and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her other honors include fellowships from the Lannan Literary Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh as the Inaugural Fellow. Their poems have appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic, the New York Times, Poetry & other journals. In 2022, Laurentiis was named a Living Legends Honoree by the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, an organization which celebrates black trans lives. Her second book, Death of the First Idea, published this year by Knopf, was longlisted for the National Book Award.

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