My name is Courtney LeBlanc and I am a Word Perv. I’m a poet, feminist, runner, dog mom who lives in Arlington, Virginia.

I’m the author of the full length collections Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize, published by Write Bloody, 2023);  Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat, 2021); and Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press, 2020). I am the Arlington 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. I love nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning.

This blog is a platform where I write about poetry – I’ll post poems I’ve written, any publications I’ve gotten, workshops and conferences I attend, and pretty much anything poetry related. You can find more info about my writing on my website, you can like me on Facebook, follow me on IG, and you can follow me on Twitter.

I hope you’ll join me as I babble about poetry.

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“I think poetry’s always a kind of faith. It is the kind I have.” ~Natasha Tretheway