Z.Z. Van Tappen
Bio:
Z. Z. is hanging on for dear life.
Yersinia P
Bio:
may infect humans.
Reason for Signing Up:
results: disseminating chaos
Winter Dawn Burns
Bio:
Writer, Collagist, Gardener, Lover of Life
Reason for Signing Up:
I imagine the daily challenge of writing poetry will be very enjoyable.
wendyjett
Bio:
Wendy Jett is a long time fitness instructor, Improv junkie, decoupage nerd and loves to write. She does the best she can everyday. Some days are better than others.
Reason for Signing Up:
Community!
Wayne Willis
Bio:
Wayne is a retired professor of education, an active artist, working in oil, watercolor, and pen and ink.
Reason for Signing Up:
Did this last year, and loved it.
WackeyCathy
Bio:
Catherine Perkins, Lexington, KY resident, is the author of one semi-humorous collection of poetry, Udder Uproar, Accents Publishing, 2024. She enjoys laughing, writing, working and the LexPoMo community!
Reason for Signing Up:
I enjoy being part of the talented and vibrant community of LexPoMoians and wouldn't want to miss any part of this yearly poet party!
W.B. Laslie
Bio:
Will is a software engineer who secretly has no business writing poetry. A transplant from Louisiana, he misses seafood dearly, but knows Kentucky is where his heart belongs.
Reason for Signing Up:
It's like screaming my thoughts into the void, except hopefully someone will appreciate them.
Virginia Lee Alcott
Bio:
Virginia Lee Alcott is an artist, and a Kentucky Licensed Professional Art Therapist. She has exhibited her art in KY and IL. Her current interest is in photography and capturing images that reflect justice and equity. She has had a lifelong love of writing, even when work, family and time did not afford the opportunity to pursue a writing career. She has recently had a poem accepted in The Louisville Review, and received a writing/photography grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women to weave images and words related to ending violence against women. Virginia tries to capture images in her poetry that relate nature to healing, justice and relationships. She loves listening to, reading and writing poetry. Virginia lives in southcentral Kentucky and has two daughters and three grandchildren.
Reason for Signing Up:
This is my second year with LEXPOMO, and I loved the community experience and sharing of words that help to heal the world.
Victoria Gross
Bio:
Victoria is an author and poet based in Southeastern Kentucky. She loves her pets, and recently discovered her first gray hair. She's not having a crisis about it. Not at all.
Reason for Signing Up:
I'm a regular!
victoria cruz-falk
Bio:
victoria cruz-falk is a woman and a poet. The work she is most proud of is Campus Candor: Students' Stories Unmasked. victoria resides in Lexington, Kentucky where she works to infuse empathy and whimsy into local government.
Reason for Signing Up:
community <3
Vi
Bio:
Vi is apart of SCAPA Literary Arts as a freshman and is a part of The Pride of Bluegrass Band. He likes writing, archery, and reading. They also love listening to classic rock music while hanging out with their Chocolate Labrador (Neville) and crazy cat (Woodrow).
Reason for Signing Up:
My teacher suggested it to us.
vanesa
Bio:
Vanesa writes to remember her roots.
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."
Toni Menk
Bio:
Toni lives in the country and hangs out, mostly, with birds.
Reason for Signing Up:
Kim makes me do it.
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.
Tina Parker
Bio:
Tina Parker is the author of the poetry collections Lock Her Up, Mother May I, and Another Offering. Tina grew up in Bristol, Virginia. She is a long-time Kentucky resident and a juried member of the Women of Appalachia Project. Follow her on Instagram @tetched_poet.
Reason for Signing Up:
I have a new project that's ready to turn into poetry.
Thrower
Bio:
Jon Thrower (a.k.a. Thrower) is a partner, friend, editor, teacher, music-maker, artist, and poet.
Reason for Signing Up:
Came for the task, stayed for the community.
Terry Gabardine
Bio:
Terry Gabardine, using her auto-correct name, will be writing haiku again in 2025.
Reason for Signing Up:
Brain exercise.
Taunja Thomson
Bio:
Taunja Thomson is the co-author of Frame & Mount the Sky & author of Strum & Lull (2019), The Profusion (2019), & Plunge (2023). Poetry & cats are her passions, but she also savors art & gardening.
Reason for Signing Up:
Signed up to encourage myself to drop out of the busy world at least once a day & remember how much bliss I get from writing poetry.
Tania Horne
Bio:
Tania is still sorting out what it all means.
Reason for Signing Up:
I have enjoyed this for many years and always feel heartened, challenged, inspired. I love reading the entries and am humbled to be a part.
