Austen Reilley
Bio:
Writer, teacher, mom, singer, ginger kitty & house plant enthusiast.
Reason for Signing Up:
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
Jennifer Barricklow
Bio:
Jennifer Barricklow is a writer and freelance editor in Lexington KY. In addition to writing poetry, she studies tarot, putters in the garden, and makes stuff out of yarn. She participates in the literary ecosystem, locally and globally, as much as possible.
Reason for Signing Up:
I love Lexington's poetry community, and LexPoMo lets me be right in the middle of it.
Makia Adkins
Bio:
Makia is a poet who started writing in the 3rd grade. She is in the process of completing her first book. She loves to write poems whose content is remnants of real life situations. She often uses her poetry to tell a story. Her beautiful cat Promise is often her muse. She has written on and off for over 30yrs and has always been afraid of being good enough. She found out that she is, and now she plans to self publish her first book.
Reason for Signing Up:
I sign up because this challenges me, inspires me and heals me through words.
I love it.
Meredith McCurry
Bio:
Meredith loves her family!
Reason for Signing Up:
I like noticing the world in June.
PBSartist
Bio:
Trish holds a brush in her hand 90% of the time, but for the other 10%, a pen <3
Reason for Signing Up:
I love the commitment and dedication of this effort!
carrieelam1998@gmail.com Elam Spillman
Bio:
Another year older, none the wiser.
Reason for Signing Up:
Dreams never die I suppose
Kerfoot
Bio:
Kerfoot is a mere example of what life can do to you.
Tom Hunley
Bio:
Tom C. Hunley is the author of eight full-length collections, eight chapbooks, two textbooks, and two produced films. He and his wife of twenty-eight years have four amazing kids. Tom’s partially disabled now with a degenerative bone disease, but he enjoys living anyway. Sometimes he fronts rock bands. Right or wrong, he believes he has impeccable taste when it comes to literature, film, music, and the one woman who has his whole heart. He seriously lacks inner resources, and he’s almost certain that his liver is diseased. He despises generative AI, groupthink, the tortured language of propaganda, big government, and bloated bureaucracies, especially in universities. He has published poems in journals with names beginning with every letter of the alphabet, from Atlanta Review to Zone 3.
Reason for Signing Up:
I do this every year. I enjoy the challenge and the community.
Pam Campbell
Bio:
Pam is a poet.
Reason for Signing Up:
I love writing with a bunch of good poets!
Mary Potts
Bio:
Mary, a Lexington native and mother to a spunky 11 year old girl, has found solace in writing since she was a young girl and continues to challenge herself to grow.
She is a supervisor of a team of amazing social workers and values providing supportive services to our most vulnerable.
Mary can be found coaching on the soccer fields, once in awhile at a random Karaoke bar, or hanging with her daughter and best friends. She continues to "take it to the page" through life's most recent heartaches and relish in the beauty surrounding her.
Reason for Signing Up:
I'm on my third round of "LexPoMo" and looking forward to continued connection with the other beautiful, talented, kind and encouraging writers in this group! I have learned so much here and I want to continue to be pushed outside of the box I tend to put myself in. Let's do this! :)
Evyn Weaver
Bio:
Writer, saxophonist, curious cat!
Reason for Signing Up:
to write more this summer
Joseph Allen Nichols
Bio:
Joseph Allen Nichols is a poet, lyric essayist, and novelist living in Lexington, KY with a 15 year old, an innocent yorkie, and two less-than-innocent ragdoll cats.
Reason for Signing Up:
josephnichols.email@gmail.com
Tony Wheary
Bio:
Tony Wheary is a contemporary poet whose work captures the subtle tensions between stillness and transformation, the personal and the universal. Drawing on rich imagery from everyday life and echoes of rural or small-town culture, his poems explore how language holds space for grief, joy, and wonder. With a voice both grounded and lyrical, Wheary turns the intimate moments of existence into shared human experiences.
Often inspired by Kentucky landscapes, barroom conversations, and the quiet mystery of morning light, Wheary’s writing bridges the visceral with the philosophical. He brings a unique eye for detail and a compassionate sense of timing, inviting readers to sit with each line like a pour of well-aged bourbon—slow, intentional, and resonant.
Reason for Signing Up:
"The bourbon burned like memory—
not sharp, but certain.
I sipped the silence between stories
and called it prayer."
A.R. Koehler
Bio:
Ayla is an avid studier of soils and grower of plants
Stefan Delipoglou
Bio:
Stefan Delipoglou is a poem
Reason for Signing Up:
I must be indexed
Greg Friedman
Bio:
Greg is a Franciscan friar, writer and pilgrim guide. He draws inspiration from the beatufiul "Land of Enchantment," as well as from creative and thoughtful people of all walks of life and beliefs.
Reason for Signing Up:
Each year, LexPoMo has been a creative environment in the challenge to write and the shared community of poets.
Jerielle
Bio:
Jerielle often doesn't sleep. Puts very little above wonder, wakes up crying sometimes, has a beautiful cat, loves coffee, loves mining the color frequencies from the interplay of light and whatever it is that it's bouncing off of, is interested fully in what is and from where comes essence.
Reason for Signing Up:
Because I always do, Gosh!!!
