H.A.
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
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
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.
EDL
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
Nancy Jentsch
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!
Shaun Turner
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
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.
Olivia Moore
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
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
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
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
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.
C. A. Grady
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
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
Bio:
A Bulgarian from Kentucky
Reason for Signing Up:
How could I not?
B. Elizabeth Beck
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
Katrina Rolfsen
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
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
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
Bio:
I'm here to write poems
Watch Baseball
And Drink Faygo
Reason for Signing Up:
Its what i do
