courtney marie
courtney marie is a writer and artist based in Denton, Texas. she enjoys working with text as an art medium and performance object. she is the co-founder and director of Spiderweb Salon, a Denton-based literary, performance, and artist collective now six years running. As a recent finalist for the Lorien Prize, courtney marie's first chapbook, don't get your hopes up, was recently released in a joint chapbook through Thoughtcrime Press with her dear moonsister Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi. she lives with two cats and writes a lot of letters.
photo credit: Dallas-based photographer Leah Jonestime [is imaginary]
dead dog creek
when you told me about dead dog creek i didn’t quite believe you. i didn’t believe the bit about the dog and i didn’t really believe there was a creek but we walked away from the trail and you showed me the creek and even though there was no dog i began to believe every […]
construction/paper
i build myself a deep nest. collect kindling, fiberglass strings, scraps of priceless tinder gathered like matches, photographs and dead grass. newspaper clippings and countless volumes of evergreen stored on bookcases that might as well be cedar branches. i live in a dry summer. postcards line the wall. ships sailing, trips without my echo, reminders […]