The Nature of Poetry

Next date: Saturday, October 24, 2026 | 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Join Courtney LeBlanc, former Arlington Poet Laureate, for a short walk through Lubber Run Park. The walk will include several stops where the group will gather and Courtney will read a poem that has a nature theme. A brief discussion about the poem will follow. Courtney will provide a prompt at the conclusion of the walk, and the group can write their own nature-inspired poem.

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[Please note: This date is rescheduled from a previous date (Oct. 3) that was cancelled due to rain.]

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Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat, 2025),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 (VA Press, 2020). She is the Arlington Poet Laureate Emeritus (2023-2025), a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow (2022), and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press and Poetry Coven, a monthly generative poetry workshop. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning.

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Lubber Run Park, 300 N Park Dr, Arlington, VA, 22203, View Map