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March 24, 2020

Poetry During a Pandemic

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 0

Of all the things I could have guessed would impact my book launch, a pandemic would probably have been one of the last. And yet, here we are: a couple weeks into the coronavirus pandemic, practicing social distancing or full-on

May 7, 2018

Launched!

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 0

On Sunday evening I launched my new chapbook, The Violence Within. It was published in February 2018 by Flutter Press, but for a variety of reasons I didn’t have the launch party until early May. There was books and booze and

May 1, 2018

30/30

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 1

Now that National Poetry Month has come to an end I can tally up the poems I wrote during the month of April. Like other poets, I took the challenge to write at least one poem a day for the

October 11, 2016

An Intimate Gathering

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 1

Last Saturday I had the west coast book launch / poetry reading for my chapbook, All in the Family. It was an intimate gathering of friends and poetry lovers and I was excited to share my poems with them.

September 22, 2015

Book Launch Party!

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 0

Two of my poems are included in the soon-to-be-released NoVa Bards Anthology! For those in the DMV (that’s DC-Maryland-Virginia for those who don’t know) please consider coming to either the official book launch party or the library reading. I’ll be

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Best New Poets 2012: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

by Matthew Dickman

My goal for 2015 is to read more poetry and find more poets I love so I picked this up from the library. Unfortunately only one poem really stood out to me, Why My Mother is Afraid of Heights by Shevaun Brannigan. The rest were okay but ...

Word Alchemy

by Lenore Kandel

This was the first book I read in 2015 when I stumbled upon it while renting a house with friends over NYE. It was an interesting read with a few nuggets but not enough to warrant a great rating from me. Some of the poems seem to be tryi...

The Book of Summers

by Emylia Hall

Perhaps my favorite part of this book was that the plot twist was truly a surprise - often I guess what's going to happen and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, it's also nice to be surprised once in a while. =)

by Evan Mandery

The premise of this book is fantastic - an older man travels back in time to tell his younger self not to marry the love of his life, a woman named Q. The younger self follows this advice and when the future life doesn't turn out as hope...

Post Marked

by Mark R. Trost

I decided to read this book for two reasons: 1) at that time it had 12 5-star reviews on Amazon, and 2) it was free. Given it's high ratings and no cost I simply had to read. Sadly, I was nothing but disappointed with this book. The cha...