LexPoMo Participants

H.A.

Monday, May 5, 2025 @ 8:08am

Bio:

H.A. lives and writes in New York. When she isn't writing, she is running, hiking, swimming, chasing a brilliant sunrise, or counting stars.

Reason for signing up:

The PoMo poets inspire me.

Courtney Music-Johnson

Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 10:37pm

Bio:

Courtney is a poet who lives and writes in Morehead, Kentucky.

Reason for signing up:

This is a tradition that I continue to do every year with my husband.

Patrick Johnson

Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 10:35pm

Bio:

I am a father of five. I live and write in Morehead. I teach at Morehead State.

Reason for signing up:

Because this allows me to generate poetry and get live feedback.

Website:

wayfinderthreads.com

EDL

Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 6:17pm

Bio:

EIRILL DELONGE (EDL) IS A MULTIMEDIA ARTIST ORIGINATED FROM RAMBERG, LOFOTEN IN THE ARCTIC REGION NORDLAND IN NORTHERN NORWAY.
DELONGE CREATES ART WITHIN DIFFERENT CREATIVE FIELDS, LET IT BE PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPHY, CREATIVE WRITING, CLOTHING DESIGN, FASHION STYLING, MUSIC OR MODELING. THIS BROADNESS STEMS FROM THE ARTISTS EXPERIENCE EXPLORING A BIG VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE CREATIVE FIELDS.
EDL’S STYLE REPRESENTS EDGE, ATTITUDE AND BLUNTNESS. IT’S CLEAR THE ARTIST HAD NO INTENTION WHEN ENTERING THE SCENE, AND THE EXHIBITION ROOMS, TO COMFORT THE AUDIENCE. WITH A PROVOCATIVE NATURE DELONGE CHALLENGES THE AUDIENCE TO BRANCH OUT AND LOOK AT THE RAW BRUTALITY OF LIFE.

Reason for signing up:

I got some stuff to write about

Website:

eirilldelonge.com

Nancy Jentsch

Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 4:24pm

Bio:

Nancy is a second-career poet who loves to be in community with the LexPoMo folks. She has published 2 chapbooks and a collection, which is entitled "Between the Rows."

Reason for signing up:

June is for poets and poetry!

Website:

jentsch8.wixsite.com/my-site

Shaun Turner

Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 9:50am

Bio:

Shaun Turner is a writer, poet, and marketing specialist nestled in the heart of Kentucky. His writing has been published in Bayou Magazine, The South Carolina Review, and Tin House Online.

Reason for signing up:

There is no June without lexpomo.

Roberta Schultz

Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 4:54am

Bio:

Somehow, a big orange tabby cat ended up on the cover of her latest chapbook

Reason for signing up:

To find out what I don't know.

Website:

robertaschultz.com

Olivia Moore

Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 3:45am

Bio:

Olivia is currently an MFA in Writing student who loves long walks on the beach… while listening to a podcast or an audiobook of course.

Reason for signing up:

I just found out about this and would love to be a part of the community while sharing my love for writing!

Mrs Ladybug

Saturday, May 3, 2025 @ 7:47pm

Bio:

Christina is a whimsical poet who enjoys writing about fairies, her garden and adventures.

Reason for signing up:

It really holds you accountable to writing more poems and its fun to read the works of others.

Katie Hassall

Saturday, May 3, 2025 @ 7:11pm

Bio:

Katie is a poet, musician, and works in the mental health field. She loves to write about her daily life.

Reason for signing up:

I love Lexpomo!

Dani

Saturday, May 3, 2025 @ 2:15pm

Bio:

Dani is a wannabe poet, a wannabe author. Dani likes to try new things and loves the thrill of something new.

Reason for signing up:

I’m really wanting to learn more about poetry and writing in general. I was recommended to join this by one of my professors and I’m excited to see how it goes.

Michele LeNoir

Saturday, May 3, 2025 @ 9:11am

Bio:

Michele LeNoir, a retired educator, enjoys writing and family and being a life coach (her personal volunteer initiative) for a group of young adult refugees she once taught. She has studied with several of her favorite Kentucky poets and is putting together her first chapbook.

Reason for signing up:

For New Adventures.
For Joy & Inspiration. For Love & Want of This Community.

Website:

michelelenoir.com

C. A. Grady

Friday, May 2, 2025 @ 11:24pm

Bio:

C. A. Grady is an emerging poet and interdisciplinary writer whose work explores emotional isolation, repression, and fragmentation through experimental and hybrid forms. Drawing from a background in science and the arts, Grady often blurs the boundaries between visual and verbal expression.

Reason for signing up:

To have a writing community and feel supported. Writing is an isolating hobby but community is how art thrives.

JollyEllen

Friday, May 2, 2025 @ 5:27pm

Bio:

Ellen Austin-Li is jazzed to write with the Lexington poets! Her first full-length poetry collection, Incidental Pollen, comes out in May 2025 from Madville Publishing as the Arthur Smith Poetry Prize runner-up.

Reason for signing up:

Ellen skipped writing a poem a day in April so she'd be primed for June (not really, but it sounds good, right?)

Katerina Stoykova

Friday, May 2, 2025 @ 10:41am

Bio:

A Bulgarian from Kentucky

Reason for signing up:

How could I not?

B. Elizabeth Beck

Friday, May 2, 2025 @ 8:07am

Bio:

B. Elizabeth Beck is a writer and artist. Author of five poetry collections, the Summer Tour Trilogy, and Swan Songs, a collection of short stories. She is the founder of the Teen Howl Poetry Series and Poetry at the Table.

Reason for signing up:

"Inspiration, move me brightly"
-Grateful Dead

Website:

elizbeck.com

Katrina Rolfsen

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 9:48pm

Bio:

Katrina is a writer and a scientist, a Gatsby apologist and a Marvel fan, a Swiftie and an emo. If you ask her where she sees herself in five years, she’ll probably quote Oscar Wilde.

Reason for signing up:

In celebration of her fourth LexPoMo anniversary!

Sonya Pavona

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 6:40pm

Bio:

Sonya is a student at Georgetown College studying English Literature, and is currently wrapping up her semester studying abroad at the University of Oxford in England. She is the Art Director and Editor of Georgetown College’s literary magazine, Inscape. In her spare time, you can find her reading, writing poetry, and generally romanticizing her life.

Reason for signing up:

It's June!

Chelsie Kreitzman

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 4:49pm

Bio:

Chelsie Kreitzman is a native of Michigan living in Lexington, Kentucky. She loves working with kids, spending time with her family, being around animals, and the great outdoors.

Reason for signing up:

LexPoMo is a great community and provides motivation to write!

Dangerfield Yella

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 3:56pm

Bio:

I'm here to write poems
Watch Baseball
And Drink Faygo

Reason for signing up:

Its what i do

Patti Miller

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 3:38pm

Rafael Ribeiro

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 3:23pm

Bio:

Rafael Ribeiro is a fictional character in the collected files of a Kentucky poet and author, whose other names include Pedro Ribeiro de Corolla, Mariela Quintana, Francisco Fernando, and "El Mataor Esmallao". His most vast manner is marriage in a manner of speaking, and to marry is to make one of two. And two and two is four. He has failed altogether and is begging to shed his self of his self for you and your self. And if this weren't enough, remember that mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. When asked if he was God, Rafael replied, "That's simple. When I pray to Him, I find I am talking to myself." He has more souls than one. His currency is his word.

Reason for signing up:

Why climb a mountain? Because it's there.

Jessica Swafford

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 2:58pm

Bill Brymer

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 2:52pm

Bio:

Bill Brymer is a poet and photographer living in Louisville, Ky.

Reason for signing up:

Love LexPoMo! Can't wait to read everyone's poems.

Website:

brymerphotography.com

Bethany Robinson

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 12:27pm

Bio:

Bethany, Beth, is a short story writer and poet originally from Eastern Kentucky. She is a researcher, a lover of nature, a yoga instructor, a dancer, and the creator of the nonprofit, The Period Project Lexington KY.

Christopher McCurry

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 11:56am

Bio:

Christopher McCurry loves his wife, kids, and writing poetry during June.

Reason for signing up:

Because the only thing I've been doing longer than Lexington Poetry Month is teaching and breathing.

Website:

workhorsewriters.com

Christopher Mattingly

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 11:48am

Bio:

Chris is a professional musician and avid reader, sometimes writer.

Reason for signing up:

I saw a friend post on this site and figured I could join. I'd like to get some feedback on what I write.

Website:

SeeMatt

Amy Le Ann Richardson

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 11:19am

Bio:

Amy Le Ann Richardson earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University (‘09) and is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Make Believe Worlds We Built Together (Bottlecap Press, 2023) and Who You Grow Into (Finishing Line Press, 2024), as well as a full collection, Out of Places (Pine Row Press, 2025). Her work has been featured in journals such as Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and Still: The Journal. She currently lives and works on her family farm in Carter County, Kentucky, where she writes, grows food, and engages with her community through art and environmental advocacy.

Reason for signing up:

I love and appreciate this community of writers and the inspiration from being part of it. What a joy to be here.

Website:

amyleannrichardson.com

Leah Tenney

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 10:32am

Bio:

Leah writes poetry & fiction, and loves all things ancient. She lives with her husband and 2 cats in the green grass of northern Kentucky.

Reason for signing up:

I participated for the first time last year, and it was a wonderful experience!

Website:

threadconfessional.com

John W. McCauley

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 10:12am

Bio:

John W. McCauley writes non-fiction and poetry. His new book, "Kentucky Is My Home: A Journey into the Life of Jesse Hilton Stuart" was recently released by the Jesse Stuart Foundation and available on jsfbooks.com and Amazon.com. The book has already reached #3 on the Jesse Stuart Foundation Best Seller List. His work has been published in anthologies, literary journals, magazines, newsletters, and newspapers. His poem "Appalachian Christmas" was published last December alongside Christmas poems by legendary author's Jesse Stuart and Jim Wayne Miller.

Reason for signing up:

Last year was my first time to participate in LexPoMo and it was a lot of fun reading and networking with other writers.

Christopher Miller

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 9:12am

Bio:

Chris grew up in Detroit, MI but has called Lexington home for 21 years. Returning to writing poetry after a near 10-year hiatus, he is starting back at the beginning in terms of his development. His quotidian concerns include Buddhism, heavy metal and punk music, and being at the beck and call of his calico cat, HRH Chessie.

Laura Foley

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 7:45am

Website:

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Leah Tolle

Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 7:17am