Three Poets at Kramers

We are celebrating the publication of Courtney LeBlanc's new book, Her Dark Everything, with this poetry reading featuring the author and two additional poets, Holly Karapetkova and Tracy Dimond. The three will be reading from their original work for 10-15 minutes each. Join us in lauding poet laureates and chapbook champions!

Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full-length collections Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. Her next collection, Her Dark Everything, is forthcoming in April 2025. She is the Arlington County Poet Laureate and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Find her online at www.courtneyleblanc.com.

Tracy Dimond is a 2016 Baker Artist Award finalist. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry (Barrelhouse), and four chapbooks, including: TO TRACY LIKE / TO LIKE / LIKE (akinoga press) and Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today (Ink Press), winner of Baltimore City Paper’s Best Chapbook. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Nervous Breakdown, Lines + Stars, Barrelhouse, The Little Patuxent Review, Pinwheel, Sink Review, and other places. Dimond holds her MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. Find her online at poetsthatsweat.com.

Holly Karapetkova is Poet Laureate Emerita of Arlington County and recipient of a 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. Her third book, Dear Empire, was recently selected as co-winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press. She serves on the board of Washington Writers’ Publishing House, the oldest continually operating nonprofit cooperative press in the United States, and is an editor at Mid-Atlantic Review. ails to come

Host or Publisher Kramers