Sylvan Fein
Bio:
A wanderer and pilgrim.
Reason for Signing Up:
To recover my voice.
Sylvia Ahrens
Bio:
Poet and cozy mystery writer
Beatrice Underwood-Sweet
Bio:
Beatrice is a language nerd, high school teacher, writer, and avid reader. She looks forward to Lexington Poetry Month every year, but writes novels the rest of the year.
Reason for Signing Up:
I love LexPoMo and look forward to it every year. I love everything about it, but especially the challenge and the writing community.
Christina Joy
Bio:
Christina is a tree-hugging, dirt-worshiping, take-no-$**t hippie; really from Woodstock, NY but has lived in KY almost as long now as there. She reads Runes, cooks ancestral foods, and posts poems on her FB page occasionally (aka 'shouting into the void')
Reason for Signing Up:
LexPoMo is still here,and I'm still here, so it's tradition now.
Hannah
Bio:
I have a lot to say sometimes
Reason for Signing Up:
to write with a friend
Kristina Erny
Bio:
Kristina Erny is a third culture poet and visual artist, author of ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS (Solum Literary Press) and PUT A COMMA IN FRONT OF A PERSON, winner of the Harbor Review Editor's Prize, 2024. She was born in Kentucky but currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.
Reason for Signing Up:
This is so fun! And I have some poetry group friends who are doing this challenge as well.
Renée Rigdon
Bio:
Renée Rigdon seeks to translate a tiny fraction of the unstructured abundance and calculated grief of the universe into symbols and lines. Their first full length poetry book, "Plant Daddy" was published by Accents Publishing in 2025.
Reason for Signing Up:
Because it's always worth doing the creativity thing.
Laurence White
Bio:
Laurence White, a poet and singer-songwriter, is happily positioned in the bewildering search for truth rapturously pursued through the lens of the poetic inquiry. Laurence’s most recent publication is featured in an anthology released by Anti-Heroin Chic. Enamored with devotion, ecstatic experience and the stunning promise of liberation, Laurence’s work aims to inspire communion with these aspects of the human condition. Laurence released an EP titled Blue Eye recorded in Oakland, California with Shallow Dive Records. When Laurence is not speaking, singing or listening, they are in silence or seeking for its stillness. There, you will find them
Reason for Signing Up:
I want to make more writer friends and create more connection around my poetry practice
Katelyn Donley-Weldon
Bio:
Katelyn is a Thomas More University Alumni receiving her Bachelor’s of Science in Biology with a minor in Spanish in 2024. She is a current medical student at the University of Kentucky-NKY College of Medicine and enjoys writing poetry in her free time! While being involved on campus, she also works as a dance teacher at a local studio and is the assistant coach of the Thomas More University dance team.
Reason for Signing Up:
blue3670@icloud.com
Samantha
Bio:
Samantha isn’t a poet.
t.l andry
Bio:
t.l andry is a writer and outsider artist. She collects perfumes and ashtrays.
Reason for Signing Up:
Old habits die hard.
Autumn Cook
Bio:
Autumn tries her hardest to write when she finds time. She’s heartbroken that she can’t seem to find much.
Reason for Signing Up:
I love to write.
Ann Haney
Bio:
Ann Haney is primarily a visual artist who is intrigued by poetry and enjoys the Lexpomo Experience.
Marie Slone
Bio:
Marie Slone is a lifelong writer and artist who tries desperately to find moments in the midst of motherhood to connect with the world through expression. She finds joy in the authentic and comfort in connection.
Reason for Signing Up:
In my personal and
professional life, I am always caring for and supporting others. Somehow, I always forget myself. Creative expression is my favorite form of self care.
Laverne Zabielski
Bio:
Laverne ran off with a long haired Mexican hippie in 1974 to work for Jerry Spry, the Rock Hairdresser to the Stars. In 1977 she opened her avant-garde hair salon Om Hair Designs. In 1983 she began writng and reading her poetry to her clients.
Reason for Signing Up:
There is nothing more powerful that sharing our stories which become the transformative resistance that will keep us strong. I want to write and read those stories.
Lisa Jensen
Bio:
Lisa is a poet, novelist, forest therapy guide, and single mom of three. Her happiest moments occur in nature, with or without a pen in hand.
Reason for Signing Up:
I'd love to connect with more Lexington poets!
Jasmine Robinson
Bio:
Jasmine is a writer living in Lexington, Kentucky.
Reason for Signing Up:
I love the celebration of poetry that is lexpomo!
H. E. Larch
Bio:
Writer and neuroscientist, originally from Lexington and dwelling briefly in D.C.
Reason for Signing Up:
It has been a few years and I've missed it.
mtpoet
Bio:
Rudy is a writer/poet with many publications worldwide and 30 books in print. He missed Lexpomo in 2023 for the only time since it began. He was suffering from covid for the fourth time.
Reason for Signing Up:
I am happy to be back in the world of the living.
