The Writer’s Center and Poet Lore welcome poets Natasha Sajé (The Future Will Call You Something Else) and Courtney LeBlanc (Her Whole Bright Life) for a reading and discussion of their brand new books. Moderated by Sandra Beasley. Book signing to follow.
Free and open to the public, limited space, registration required. Please view and agree to COVID Policies before attending our live events.
Natasha Sajé is the author of five books of poems; a postmodern poetry handbook (Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory); and a memoir-in-essays. Her work has been honored with the Robert Winner and Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards, a Fulbright fellowship, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, and the Utah Book Award. Terroir: Love, Out of Place was a finalist for Pen, Lambda, CMLP, and Indie Book Awards, and was awarded first prizes by Foreword Reviews and IPPY. Sajé is a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. in Writing Program and lives in Washington, D.C.
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full-length collections Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize, Write Bloody, 2023), Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat, 2021) and Beautiful & Full of Monsters (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020). She is a Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellow (2022) 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 courtneyleblanc.com. Follow her on twitter: @wordperv, and IG: @wordperv79.
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