LexPoMo Participants

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Mya Sophia is a Black biracial poet with poetry in the anthology from Skinner House, Shelter in this Place, and BLUU Notes. She loves to write about identity, justice, and spirituality. When she is not writing she can be found talking about books on youtube, spending time with family and friends, and practicing joy as resistance.

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Kat is a lifelong writer. She has published poetry in numerous literary journals and has won several contests with both her poetry and prose. During her time living in Seattle, she was honored by the Seattle Art Museum with an evening dedicated to readings of her work. She is a former paralegal, has been classically trained in voice and in her spare times cares for and rescues animals.

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Je regrette

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Patrick is a poet

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Marianne is a poet who just recently moved to lexington. Her debut collection of poetry is No Distance Between Us , through Shadelandhouse Modern Press. Marianne lives w her partner Scott and has four daughters and one granddaughter. She has a second book coming out Fall of 2023.

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K. Nicole Wilson makes poems and paintings, including poems on paintings and paintings because of poems. She enjoys sharing her art, reading poems and spending quality time in community with other artists and musicians, kin and chosen family. K. Nicole dislikes bad sports officials and fascists.

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Poet mostly

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Trish Lindsey Jaggers is a Kentucky-born feminist poet, educator, amateur photographer, and vintage/antique/primitive collector. She earned her two undergraduate degrees (AS and AB) at WKU and an MFA in creative writing (poetry emphasis) from Spalding University.
Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Kentucky Monthly Magazine, Pirene's Fountain; New Millennium Writings (winner of the NMW Poetry Award #26); 'Merica Magazine; The Briar Cliff Review; The Louisville Review; The New Southerner; The Red Rock Review; Clackamas Literary Review, and other journals and anthologies.

Her chapbook, De-Composition: Rigor Mortis (a finalist in the NaPoWriMo contest) was published in 2019 by Local Gems Poetry Press, NY, and Holonym, Poems, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016.
She’s currently working on Birdshot: The Pellet Poems, narrative poems in her mother’s voice: poems that retrace the woundings from many, many little pellets—injuries that had her redirecting her pain (physically) onto her adopted daughter—woundings that culminated in a fatal self-inflicted gunshot.
Trish Lindsey Jaggers’ “Crazy Eights” writing motto insists on intricate simplicity:
“Write so an eight-year-old can read it,
an eighteen-year-old can understand it,
and an eighty-year-old will have lived it.”

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Ondine (they/them) is an artist, writer and activist who has called Lexington home since 2005. They published a Cuban cookbook in 2022 and are working on their first book of poetry.

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john like poetery and sometimes will write it.

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Patti is a KY native and currently lives in Georgetown.

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Carrie, a lifetime lover of words, hails from the hills and hollers of Mason County, Ky. She left home to attend college at the University of Louisville, and then settled down in Lexington, where she has lived for the past 18 years. She's a busy wife and mother, and a seeker of all things true, good, and beautiful.

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Jordan is blessed to participate in Lexington Poetry Month 2023 alongside so many talented creative voices. She relishes in coffee on her back porch in the mornings with her cat, Mindy, and finds peace in the ordinary. This year, Jordan hopes to delve deeper emotionally than she has before and become more acquainted with her truest self through her poetry.

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K Ka`imilani is a poet, is an essayist, is a teacher, a parent, a grandparent, a lover of land and solitude. She has a BA in English Literature from the University of Hawai`i, and a Masters in Creative Writing from Eastern Kentucky University. She tries to get at least one thing published a year, but hopes to have time to do much more.

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KJ (she/they) is an occasional poet. She loves her people who help her get through the things she writes about. KJ would like to thank their people.

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In love with friends and uninvested in melancholy. Recently graduated senior from SCAPA Literary Arts.

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Full-time public employee, part-time grad student, very sometimes burlesque dancer, and every-once-in-a-while-when-the-mood-strikes writer.

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Kit is an English teacher in south central Kentucky where she lives with her husband and their four wild children.