Open Mic following the Featured Readers — feel free to share one poem, one page.
At Casey Community Center, 810 S Frederick Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full-length collections Her Dark Everything; Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She is the Arlington County Poet Laureate and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. She’s also the founder of the Poetry Coven, a monthly generative workshop she runs out of her home. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Find her online at www.courtneyleblanc.com.
Mike Reis is a writer and environmental historian whose poems have appeared in Narrative Northeast, North of Oxford, Woven Tale, Gargoyle, Crossways, Lucille, The Broadkill Review, The Galway Review, The Raven’s Perch, Grand Little Things, Amelia, Northern New England Review, The Seventh Quarry, WWPH Writes, Superpresent, and the Maryland Literary Review. My work has also been published in the anthologies Cabin Fever, Pandemic of Violence II: Poets Speak, and Traitor/Patriot: A Reflection of January 6.
DiVerse Gaithersburg 