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April 2, 2018

Celebrate Poetry (Every Damn Day!)

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 0

April is National Poetry Month which means a reason to celebrate poetry EVERY. DAMN. DAY. To be fair, I treat every month as national poetry month and every day as a poetry day. Here are a few ways to celebrate

April 21, 2016

New Publications

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 0

I’ve got a few publications and I’m excited to share them with everyone! First, my chapbook Siamese Sisters was featured on The Salonniere’s Apartments. There’s still plenty of time to order your copy of my chapbook – $10 if you’re local

April 6, 2015

Me & Megan Falley

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 0

A couple of weeks ago I drove up to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland so I could see one of my favorite poets, Megan Falley, perform live. Her reading at the school came shortly after I finished my one-on-one

March 23, 2015

Workshop With Megan Falley

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 1

My birthday gift to myself this year was a six week one-on-one workshop with Megan Falley. Last week, I had my last workshop with her and we walked through four of the poems I’d written over the course of the

January 8, 2015

Birthday Girl

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 2

Today is my birthday, I’m 36 years old! I love birthdays, in fact, I am not a Christmas person at all but so I could care less about decorating, presents, a Christmas tree, etc. but I love celebrating birthdays. This

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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...