Friday March 14 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * Free / donations

Celebrate the DC launch of EMOTION INDUSTRY (Barrelhouse 2024) with readings & performances by the author & friends: Courtney LeBlanc, Tracy Dimond, Amanda McCormick, and Tonee Mae Moll. Books will be available for purchase.

Courtney LeBlanc is the author of Her Dark Everything (forthcoming 2025), Her Whole Bright Life, winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize, Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart, and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. www.courtneyleblanc.com.

Tracy Dimond is a 2016 Baker Artist Award finalist. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry (Barrelhouse), and four chapbooks, including: TO TRACY LIKE / TO LIKE / LIKE (akinoga press) and Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today (Ink Press), winner of Baltimore City Paper’s Best Chapbook. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Smartish Pace, Lines + Stars, Barrelhouse, The Little Patuxent Review, Pinwheel, Sink Review, and other places. Find her online at poetsthatsweat.com.

Amanda McCormick is a feminist poet, bookbinder, lover, healer & all around artist + alchemist living in Maryland. Amanda is the founder of multiple creative brands including THE HOUSE Handcrafted, a waste-reducing art studio and magical oddity shop located in Northeast Baltimore. Amanda holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Publication Arts and has been a bookmaker for more than 20 years. A natural collaborator and empath, Amanda has devoted their life to finding treasure in trash and continues to inspire others to do the same with innovation that blurs the lines of artistic material and form.

Dr. Tonee Mae Moll is a queer & trans writer & educator in Baltimore. Her debut memoir, Out of Step, won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award, and was featured that year on the American Library Association’s annual list of notable LGBTQ+ books. Her latest poetry collection, You Cannot Save Here, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Tonee Mae’s poetry has also received the Adele V. Holden award for creative excellence and the Bill Knott Poetry Prize. She has been a finalist for the Baker Award, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net. She holds a PhD in English from Morgan State University and an MFA in creative writing & publishing art from University of Baltimore. Her scholarly work explores feminist pedagogies & epistemologies, poetry, and punk. She is, most notably, a Gemini.