Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 11:46am
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 @ 9:03pm
Bio:
a. a. kate lives with her family in a normal urban neighborhood. With chickens, honey bees, a geriatric parrot, cockatiel, and two dogs she spends most of her time tending to the animals and caring for her large backyard garden. Her growing interest in the environment is the spark for the majority of her writing.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up for LexPoMo because I wanted to try something new. I really need to start opening up about my writing and find fresh ways to create ideas, plus it will be a great experience for me, and will help fuel my writing interests.
Thursday, April 26, 2018 @ 5:37pm
Bio:
Anna Bryant has been writing in journals, scraps of paper, notepads, and sometimes just directly on her hand. She uses words to make sense of the world around and the vast worlds of her imagination. Every mark on a page has a story to tell.
Reason for signing up:
One of my dear friends encouraged me to take the time and take an adventure! Thank you S. Waterbury.
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Poems:
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June 02, 2018
Page by Page
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June 03, 2018
A Guest’s 1-2-3-4–
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June 04, 2018
Doubt
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June 05, 2018
A Sun’s Last Symphony
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June 06, 2018
Survivor
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June 07, 2018
A Voiceless Voice
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June 08, 2018
A Knock at the Door
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June 09, 2018
I Lub You!
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June 10, 2018
Until our Next Adventure
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June 11, 2018
The Dawn of I Do
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June 12, 2018
A Life
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June 13, 2018
Night’s Calamity
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June 23, 2018
Wind’s breath
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June 24, 2018
untitled
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June 25, 2018
Love‘s Gaze
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June 27, 2018
Age’s Divide
Saturday, May 19, 2018 @ 4:42am
Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 12:52pm
Bio:
Annette lives with her husband in Lexington and enjoys creating and enjoying all forms of creative arts. She is celebrating 60 years of life by participating in many new adventures including Lexington Poetry Month
Reason for signing up:
A new adventure, a new challenge, a new reason to create.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 7:51pm
Reason for signing up:
the process
Friday, May 18, 2018 @ 3:39pm
Bio:
Her names Yesenia Ramos
She has the diagnosis of Friedreich’s Ataxia
She uses her poetry to cope with her diagnosis as well as depression and anxiety.
Yesenia is homebound due to Friedreich’s Ataxia and shes also an introvert.
She is a bilingual Mexican.
Reason for signing up:
I’m into poetry, it has saved me from really dark times. Jude Lally recommended me to LexPoMo and I decided to sign up.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 @ 5:11pm
Bio:
Alyxandria (she/her/hers) is a transfemme writer and desperately wishes she'd been around for the 80s. She likes twinkly emo music from the midwest and tries hard to remember that we don't make mistakes; we have happy accidents.
Reason for signing up:
I love poems!
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 6:41pm
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 9:18am
Bio:
Amanda Kelley Corbin holds an MFA in Fiction from UK and a BFA from Morehead State. Her work has appeared in Kentucky Monthly's Writers' Showcase, JMWW, Eunoia Review, Fried Chicken and Coffee, and Madcap Review, among others. She lives in Lexington with her husband and sons.
Reason for signing up:
Fourth year and counting!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Stealing
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June 02, 2018
Squeezed
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June 03, 2018
Surviving
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June 04, 2018
Watch
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June 05, 2018
Wonders
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June 06, 2018
Intentions
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June 09, 2018
Slow Progress
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June 10, 2018
Learning to say goodbye
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June 12, 2018
A teacher in summer
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June 14, 2018
Leading
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June 19, 2018
Learning to ask for guidance
Friday, May 18, 2018 @ 8:03pm
Bio:
Amy Camuglia considers herself a folk poet. “Unschooled”, she enjoys the freedom poetry allows. Anything from short and silly rap to heartfelt truths..... she writes it all down...uncapitalized.
Reason for signing up:
Poetry.... the writing, and the reading.
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Poems:
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June 02, 2018
lake turtle
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June 03, 2018
scared shaveless
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June 04, 2018
rebeccah
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June 05, 2018
summer day
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June 06, 2018
wednesday
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June 07, 2018
b,b,babblin
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June 08, 2018
country kids count
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June 09, 2018
hit and run in little mexico
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June 10, 2018
divorce
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June 11, 2018
75 lbs., wit of a heavyweight
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June 12, 2018
inflatable food
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June 13, 2018
Roy G. Biv
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June 14, 2018
rapmaster c
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June 15, 2018
comedians cry too
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June 16, 2018
chainsaw massacre
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June 17, 2018
emily
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June 18, 2018
before and after
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June 19, 2018
a little poem
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June 20, 2018
DNA results
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June 21, 2018
i’ve got a case of the yellows
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June 22, 2018
working my way back to the sour cream
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June 23, 2018
god complex
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June 24, 2018
sea turtle
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June 25, 2018
brown bird scat
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June 26, 2018
in a pinch....
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June 27, 2018
visiting relatives
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June 28, 2018
butterflies
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June 29, 2018
encouragement?
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June 30, 2018
everyone understands big and little
Friday, May 4, 2018 @ 11:30pm
Bio:
Amy Cunningham likes literary works in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.
Reason for signing up:
fun
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Heat
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June 02, 2018
Her Face Was an Outlet
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June 03, 2018
Ruse
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June 04, 2018
They Move and Impress
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June 05, 2018
That Backwards Goes
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June 06, 2018
Who Wonders at All?
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June 07, 2018
Killer Shrimp Soup Recipe
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June 08, 2018
Gun Dog
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June 09, 2018
Sun Damage is No Joke
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June 10, 2018
9000 Booths at the Columbus Arts Festival
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June 11, 2018
In the Word Tent
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June 12, 2018
Summer Before MTV
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June 13, 2018
TECH TAWK! Brush Library
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June 14, 2018
TECH TAWK! Content Creation
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June 15, 2018
TECH TAWK! Project Document
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June 16, 2018
Respond Like a Cat That Hates Her Sofa
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June 17, 2018
The Wonders of Hesdin
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June 18, 2018
Calendar
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June 19, 2018
Wind Rose
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June 20, 2018
Standard Bearer
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June 21, 2018
Fu on Big Producer
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June 22, 2018
Fu on Facebook
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June 23, 2018
Think and Walk
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June 24, 2018
You Are an Arm-Chair
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June 25, 2018
R. Crumb
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June 26, 2018
Another Planet for You
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June 27, 2018
Leave Paper Trails
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June 28, 2018
To the Boy Who Played Across the Street
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June 29, 2018
Today’s Office Crew
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June 30, 2018
Stoplight Tomatoes
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 9:22am
Bio:
Lover of life, literature, art, & travel // Wife & mom of F I V E. Teacher // Librarian // Constantly changing and growing // Saved by grace — thankful
Reason for signing up:
Because I need to write more!!!!
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Poems:
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June 02, 2018
Light Breaks, Night Falls
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June 03, 2018
Oppression
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June 06, 2018
Fear
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June 10, 2018
Low Tide
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June 12, 2018
A Dream with the Sea
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June 13, 2018
Haiku Wisdom #1
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June 14, 2018
in the pines
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June 19, 2018
Where is Lady Justice?
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June 20, 2018
I Do Not Think of You
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June 26, 2018
Moon-Drenched Heartache
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June 28, 2018
In the Dark
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July 01, 2018
Truth #18
Sunday, June 3, 2018 @ 2:42pm
Bio:
Andrew Depew has been writing for various sundry reasons for more than a decade. He's had poetry and prose published. This is maybe his third lexpomo. He doesn't keep good records.
Reason for signing up:
Habit and bugs
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Wild Hare or Wild Hair
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June 02, 2018
time toilet
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June 03, 2018
Irregardless
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June 06, 2018
Sex and Power
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June 07, 2018
Writing Comedy
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June 08, 2018
All the love I had in Store
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June 09, 2018
Anxiety
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June 10, 2018
Coming to Terms with Self
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June 13, 2018
By the/and Bye - etc
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June 30, 2018
Is The Bible an Anthology?
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 10:46pm
Bio:
Andrew Depew has been writing for various asundry reasons for more than a decade. Hes had poetry and prise published. This is maybe his third lexpomo. He doesnt keep good records.
Reason for signing up:
Habit
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 8:16pm
Bio:
Andrew Wilson is a Native Kentuckian and Eternal Oregonian, convinced he’s the Luckiest Man Alive.
Reason for signing up:
Meadow made me.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 @ 11:31am
Bio:
Classically trained NYC actress- She currently helps children prepare for auditions - singing (She was a singer) acting, speech, 'how to basics' of auditions - Also, teaches piano.
She too has cats - 3
Reason for signing up:
Did this last year - it's like falling into a different world - No one 'on the outside' can get in! I've so missed it!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Little Black Bug
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June 02, 2018
Inside My Refrigerator
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June 05, 2018
Girl Gone
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June 06, 2018
Mind Strain/Migraine
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June 08, 2018
Looking Back
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June 11, 2018
The Scary Shoes
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June 13, 2018
The Mango Tree - For My Nicaraguan Girl
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June 15, 2018
3:22 A.M.
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June 21, 2018
No Title to be Had
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June 24, 2018
Sunday Morning Rhymes
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June 26, 2018
The Bird Bath
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June 28, 2018
Elizabeth
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June 30, 2018
30th June - 2018
Monday, April 23, 2018 @ 1:38pm
Reason for signing up:
Two words; Chris McCurry
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 @ 7:09pm
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 4:14pm
Bio:
Ashley Marie is from Lexington Kentucky. She is 25 years old,currently works at saint Joseph east in dietary and has a 6month old son with her fiancé Michael.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because in my spare time I enjoy writing whatever is on my mind or writing small pieces over the years that have crossed my mind,some are unfinished, some are yet to come. My mother in law does this every year and I asked about it, she recommended that I sign up so here I am!
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 10:22pm
Bio:
i am mostly misery, flowers and stories that have already been told elsewhere, topped with anxiety and a bad diet, and i have no pets. female, 20s, every bad thing you ever heard about a Pisces
Reason for signing up:
Bronson sent me here
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Poems:
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June 06, 2018
On Kassites, Elamites, others
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June 07, 2018
(lo que significa) ser mitad ciervo
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June 08, 2018
two dreams, improper filial conduct
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June 09, 2018
an ache sometimes
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June 10, 2018
a poem about Star Wars
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June 11, 2018
Catalogue of Dead Bugs to Be Vacuumed
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June 12, 2018
Procris to Cephalus
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June 13, 2018
Procris in the Underworld
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June 14, 2018
untitled
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June 15, 2018
I40 Zodiac (excerpts 1)
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June 16, 2018
I40 Zodiac (excerpts 2)
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June 17, 2018
Stanton
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June 18, 2018
#me
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June 19, 2018
“Нет, и не под чуждым небосводом”
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June 20, 2018
untitled
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June 21, 2018
advice to throw your fortunes into a sea
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June 22, 2018
untitled
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June 23, 2018
'Watership Down' mentioned
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June 30, 2018
crime, quicksilver, legalism and pride
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 @ 12:24pm
Bio:
Austin is a Kentuckian by way of Western North Carolina. He enjoys board games, sports and Kanye West albums.
Reason for signing up:
I swear, one of these years I will finish 30 poems. Will it be this year...stay tuned to find out!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Cute Little Place
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June 02, 2018
Snowflakes
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June 03, 2018
For the Feel of It
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June 04, 2018
Rightbackatcha
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June 05, 2018
Here All the Bombs Fade Away
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June 06, 2018
Painstaking
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June 07, 2018
Agricola
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June 25, 2018
Mainfesto
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June 26, 2018
City Nights (S02E13)
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June 30, 2018
forfoxsakes
Sunday, May 6, 2018 @ 5:53pm
Bio:
Autumn Hines is a senior at Lafayette High School. She has been a member of SCAPA's Literary Arts program for the past eight years.
Reason for signing up:
Last year I signed up because my teacher offered extra credit if we submitted at least five poems. This year, however, I am doing it purely as a challenge to myself. Last year I did the bare minimum, but this LexPoMo, I would like to push myself to my full potential and see what I can really accomplish.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 2:41pm
Bio:
A displaced Kentuckian currently living in Missouri, Beatrice dabbles in all genres of writing, although poetry is her first love. She is also a vegetarian, a crafter, a linguist, and a traveler.
Reason for signing up:
Challenges are great to get the creative juices flowing. I also love writing with such a wonderful and supportive group of poets every year.
Friday, May 4, 2018 @ 5:54pm
Bio:
Bernie Deville teaches at Providence Montessori Middle School. He also can occasionally channel chaos.
Reason for signing up:
Must write more!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
The Descent
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June 02, 2018
Through the Gritted Teeth
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June 03, 2018
Vase & Flower
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June 05, 2018
Hacku
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June 06, 2018
Sunrise Surf
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June 07, 2018
Process
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June 09, 2018
Work the Edges
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June 10, 2018
Sinking Down
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June 11, 2018
Reading, Feeding
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June 14, 2018
One-sided Conversation
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June 15, 2018
Abandoned on Ellis Island
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June 16, 2018
Manifest of a Manifesto
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June 17, 2018
All I Have To Do
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June 18, 2018
Maze
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June 19, 2018
A Pear, This Time
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June 20, 2018
Home [of]
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June 21, 2018
Flora
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June 24, 2018
Breton
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June 26, 2018
Rorschach Impulse
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June 28, 2018
Cubist Summer Song
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June 29, 2018
I Still Have a Mouth, I Must Scream
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 @ 7:07pm
Bio:
Betsie is a small town writer. She is an activist and teacher. Betsie loves her friends and cat. She writes to keep breathing.
Reason for signing up:
I love the challenge to make time for writing.
Saturday, May 26, 2018 @ 8:06pm
Bio:
Bianca Bargo is an Appalachian logophile whose day job is in public education. Her chapbook, “How I Became an Angry Woman”, was published by Accents Publishing in 2015. She lives in Lexington with her husband and pets and writes when inspiration strikes.
Reason for signing up:
1) Christopher McCurry
2) Living my best life
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Loving myself
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June 02, 2018
Burning Day (From the Diaries of a Phoenix)
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June 03, 2018
Jealousy (From a Young Girl)
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June 04, 2018
Body of Work
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June 05, 2018
Another Leg Poem
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June 06, 2018
Tip of the Tongue
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June 07, 2018
Reading a Poem I Don’t Understand
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June 08, 2018
One of Our Conversations
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June 09, 2018
Between the Panes
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June 10, 2018
Book Lungs
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June 11, 2018
While You're Away
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June 12, 2018
Letter to My Friends (Explanation, Not Excuse)
Thursday, May 24, 2018 @ 8:47am
Bio:
Lexington resident. Long time reader, first time writer.
Reason for signing up:
I'm here for the challenge of writing everyday and connecting with other writers.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 2:50pm
Bio:
Bobby Steve Baker is a writer in Lexington Kentucky who grew-up on the Canadian side of Lake Huron and he still craves the Big Water. However, by the time you read this he will probably be calling Orlando Florida home (I miss you already). His work has appeared in Cold Mountain Review, Cloudbank, Picaroon, Prick of the Spindle, Into the Void, and many others.
Reason for signing up:
obsessive-compulsive narcissistic procrastinator
looking for community of like minded
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Poems:
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June 05, 2018
Miss Manners. Please Clarify
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June 08, 2018
Time Is Air
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June 09, 2018
After the Summit
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June 10, 2018
The dna of Black Sand Soul
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June 11, 2018
Jim Crow Was Not Dead Just Resting
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June 12, 2018
This Beautiful Disease
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June 13, 2018
The Blues Had A Baby
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June 15, 2018
Looking Through the Ice
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June 16, 2018
Little Bluff Bluff Names Imaginary Friends*
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June 20, 2018
When You Cage Children *
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June 24, 2018
New Computer
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 2:59pm
Bio:
Bree is a poet and author of memoirs and biographies who published poets and artists of the very small press having founded Green Panda Press in 2001. In 2016 she was awarded an Artist Enrichment Grant from KFW and has since focused primarily on poetry and visual art.
Reason for signing up:
to meet others, engage, read, write.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Landing
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June 02, 2018
if it is Spring
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June 03, 2018
Fur Certain
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June 04, 2018
This Mighty Oak
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June 05, 2018
You Were My Tree
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June 06, 2018
dear line cook
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June 07, 2018
Kinsman Lake
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June 08, 2018
where our state-lines entwine
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June 10, 2018
As If
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June 11, 2018
creatures like you
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June 12, 2018
changing the curve in Grayson, KY
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June 13, 2018
watching wrens
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June 14, 2018
Grandiflora
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June 15, 2018
Blackberry Gin (song)
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June 16, 2018
and it is delirious
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June 18, 2018
Interlopers
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June 22, 2018
Tomorrow
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June 25, 2018
Aloof of Hoof
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June 26, 2018
they really turned up the flames
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June 27, 2018
the white between my eyes is yours
Sunday, April 22, 2018 @ 12:47pm
Bio:
Fiction writer, web developer, father of an awesome 2-year-old who just wants to read Astro Boy and watch Charlie’s Colorform Cities, and husband to the coolest dork in the whole world.
Reason for signing up:
I once heard Robert E Howard kept writing Conan books because he sincerely believed Conan the Barbarian was a real person who threatened to keep writing them or else he'd lob off his head. That's not how I feel, but man isn't that a fun story?
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
bullying poem #01: anime club
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June 02, 2018
haiku #1
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June 07, 2018
WATCH THESE STUPID LIBERALS BELIEVE TRUMP’S KIDS HUNTED A DINOSAUR
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June 09, 2018
I Want to Die a Dinosaur Sponge
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June 10, 2018
bullying poem #02: favors
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June 11, 2018
bullying poem #3: one up
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June 13, 2018
bullying poem #4: Because I want to write something sweet but we’re still fighting right now
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June 14, 2018
haiku #2
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June 18, 2018
haiku #4
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June 19, 2018
haiku #5
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June 20, 2018
YOU DEMOCRATS DON’T KNOW ANYTHING
Monday, April 30, 2018 @ 9:51am
Bio:
Caden is a jaded sophomore in the SCAPA Lit. Arts program. Is in need of a publishing credit
Reason for signing up:
teacher made me
Monday, April 30, 2018 @ 9:51am
Bio:
Caden is a jaded junior in the SCAPA Lit. Arts program. Is in need of a publishing credit
Reason for signing up:
teacher made me
Saturday, May 12, 2018 @ 12:17pm
Bio:
Lives with three cats and usually has chipped nail polish. Senior editor at HOW + Print.
Reason for signing up:
Looking for some summertime inspiration!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
a warm up
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June 02, 2018
incline house
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June 03, 2018
road to twin creeks
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June 04, 2018
atlanta, georgia 2016
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June 05, 2018
the slackline
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June 06, 2018
i’ll get my shit together
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June 08, 2018
RIP the person i didn’t know
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June 14, 2018
used to
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June 29, 2018
day 29
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 8:42am
Bio:
native of Eastern Kentucky, Candace studied poetry at UK with Kentucky Poets Laureate Jane Vance and Gurney Norman before launching a career spanning arts journalism, academic book publishing, and non-profit leadership roles. She continues to freelance write for area publications like the Lexington Herald-Leader and Smiley Pete Publishing and plans to pursue an MFA in creative writing. She is currently the Katerina Stoykova scholarship recipient for The Gauntlet, an intensive, year-long generative workshop in which poets commit to writing 100 poems in a year. She is a frequent creative collaborator with Bolivar Gallery director Becky Alley and is also the founder of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference Prize for Women Playwrights. She is an excellent roller skater and bad cook.
Reason for signing up:
Because I sign up every year and fail but every year I fail better and that's what old Sam Beckett said to do.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 6:38am
Bio:
Carole Johnston is obsessed with Japanese short form poetry, Labrador Retrievers, grandchildren and teaching.Her latest book of poems is, “Purple Ink: A Childhood in Tanka.”
Reason for signing up:
It’s always fun.
Monday, May 28, 2018 @ 12:49am
Reason for signing up:
Because I miss who I use to be when I was me
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 1:57pm
Bio:
ex-furniture mover turned blind blues singer. Favorite poets in order of preference: W.B. Yeats, W.S. Merwin, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Emily Dickinson.
Reason for signing up:
because I am the best living english language poet in the continental United States (W.S. Merwin lives in Hawaii) and the world needs to know
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Minimalism, no.
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June 02, 2018
DISCHARGE
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June 03, 2018
H19
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June 04, 2018
Spoonin and Fishin
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June 04, 2018
Spoonin and Fishin
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June 05, 2018
JUNKIE LOVE
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June 06, 2018
MIRROR
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June 07, 2018
SING-CALL THE DAYLIGHT THRUSH
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June 08, 2018
ARCHANGEL
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June 09, 2018
NOT OF TIME BUT REAL
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June 10, 2018
THE BLOOD
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June 11, 2018
H20 (Tribal)
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June 12, 2018
Unbound Haiku
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June 13, 2018
HAIKU-LOWKU
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June 14, 2018
wake up sex
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June 15, 2018
BIRD EYE
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June 16, 2018
VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
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June 17, 2018
FATHER'S DAY 2018
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June 20, 2018
GIFT OF THE PRESENT
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June 22, 2018
PRESUPPOSITION OF HIS SORROW
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June 24, 2018
INTUITIVE SYNTHESIS OF BASIC POETIC STRUCTURES
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June 25, 2018
HEROIN
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June 26, 2018
To Sonya
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June 27, 2018
BRIEFLY, A CANDLE
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June 28, 2018
WOMEN POSING
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June 29, 2018
MY DARKLING HOURS
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June 30, 2018
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
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June 30, 2018
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 12:20am
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 2:25pm
Bio:
Christina Bowman is currently living in Georgetown, Ky. In her spare time she likes to take naps.
Reason for signing up:
I wanted to.
Sunday, April 22, 2018 @ 9:10pm
Bio:
Christopher McCurry is a high school English teacher and father.
Reason for signing up:
I like to write poems and Lexington Poetry Month is the best place to write those poems.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 12:40pm
Bio:
RPCV. Social worker. Therapist. Writer.
Reason for signing up:
To push myself back into writing.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 4:33pm
Thursday, May 10, 2018 @ 4:29pm
Bio:
Catherine Perkins, a high school graduate with one year of college, devoted her entire working life to horses and the Thoroughbred Racing Industry. She began to get serious about her writing when she found and started taking classes at, The Carnegie Center For Literacy and Learning, in Lexington, KY. She has a few published poems, thanks in part to LexPoMo anthologies, &Grace and This Wretched Vessel (Accents Publishing), she has one poem in Circe's Lament (Accents Publishing, 2016) and most recently, My Post Inaugural Speech in killjoylitmag.
Reason for signing up:
I like being a part of the Lexington poets and writer's community. I would have done this last year but there was a glich that did not allow me to log in.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 10:05pm
Reason for signing up:
Incentive to write.
Thursday, May 3, 2018 @ 2:30pm
Bio:
“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe”
-Frantz Fanon
Reason for signing up:
Because it is necessary
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Batting Practice or Yard
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June 02, 2018
Love's Taxicab Blues or Observations at the Gas Station
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June 03, 2018
Love's Taxicab Blues in Dub or 2am observations in IHOP
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June 04, 2018
Love's Taxicab Blues or The Law & Order of the Bachelorette
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June 05, 2018
On My Block IV or Loud On
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June 06, 2018
On My Block V or Makes Sense to Me
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June 07, 2018
Hey Batta Batta or Don't Go Back to Her is She Breaks Your Heart
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June 10, 2018
Love's Taxicab Blues or who's there? No joke
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June 12, 2018
Aries or Summer
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June 20, 2018
Proverbs 22:23 or Deuteronomy 32:35
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June 21, 2018
Needle drop or two left feet
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June 26, 2018
And the Band Played On or ...on first seeing a work by Miles Anies
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June 30, 2018
Vittles or Gender Rolled
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 @ 9:49am
Reason for signing up:
poetry reminds me
Thursday, June 7, 2018 @ 3:58pm
Bio:
LaDawn Garvin started off journaling her thoughts as she went through life starting in the early 80’s and wrote poems for others as encouragement. She did not know she had the talent of writing until a very close friend encouraged her to share her writings with other. In July of 2017, her first book was written and published; The Rose in the Mirror: The Reflection of a Woman; Reflection of You. From that point on, she continued to write and put her writings together to get ready to publish her second book and has already started on the third book.
LaDawn is passionate about writing and is attending the University of Kentucky to earn her Bachelor degree in Writing. She wants to share her passion with others rather it is writing books or speaking to an audience about her journey in life that has brought her to this point. LaDawn was born in a small town of Jeannette, PA and moved to Louisville, KY when she was a young girl. It wasn’t until she moved to Lexington, KY in 2016 that she began to work on her first published book. She needed away from the chaos in Louisville to begin a new beginning.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because i like to write and write poetry and wanted to meet others in the community that have the same passion as i do.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 11:03am
Bio:
A writing evangelist who believes everyone is a writer and everyone should be a writer, Deanna teaches writers and writing teachers both in person and online, directs the Morehead Writing Project, and runs the Writing Studio at Morehead State University. She blogs about writing, teaching, and stories.
Reason for signing up:
I need more poetry in my life.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
One Who Eats at the Table of Another
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June 03, 2018
John 13:35
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June 04, 2018
MIA
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June 05, 2018
Duty
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June 06, 2018
The Not-Good-Enough Sandwich
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June 09, 2018
Some Day
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June 11, 2018
Just Once
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June 14, 2018
Push and Pull
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June 15, 2018
Naturalization
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June 19, 2018
I Believe
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June 20, 2018
They
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June 25, 2018
Fare Thee Well
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June 26, 2018
Detritus
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June 28, 2018
the road to harlan
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June 30, 2018
A gut punch poem
Saturday, May 19, 2018 @ 11:42am
Bio:
Debbie Adams Cooper delivering poetic creations groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Reason for signing up:
Masochistic tendencies.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 3:39pm
Bio:
Dennis J. Preston lives in Owensboro, Kentucky. He taught elementary school language arts for twenty-five years, but now enjoys being semi-retired. He is a pastor, and enjoys reading, writing, traveling, and spending time with his family. His most recent book is Cloaked Moon: Women of the Bible.
Reason for signing up:
I love to write, but I work better with challenges and deadlines. LexPoMo provides both!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
no happy ending
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June 02, 2018
Reunion I
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June 03, 2018
Reunion II
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June 04, 2018
Reunion III
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June 05, 2018
Reunion IV
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June 06, 2018
Reunion V
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June 07, 2018
Mealtime
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June 08, 2018
Terminal
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June 09, 2018
Confused
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June 10, 2018
Reflection
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June 11, 2018
interruption
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June 12, 2018
Doll Baby
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June 13, 2018
Retirement
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June 14, 2018
A Backward Glance
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June 15, 2018
What is Old?
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June 16, 2018
A Question for My Dad
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June 17, 2018
Gives Me Chills
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June 18, 2018
Chaotic Conclusion
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June 19, 2018
Escape
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June 20, 2018
Reunion VI
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June 21, 2018
Reunion VII
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June 22, 2018
Not Without Struggle
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June 23, 2018
God Bless the Child
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June 24, 2018
Promised Land
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June 25, 2018
Adrift
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June 26, 2018
a taste of home
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June 27, 2018
storm
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June 28, 2018
morning after
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June 29, 2018
clean up time
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June 30, 2018
memories
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 @ 11:14am
Monday, April 30, 2018 @ 1:28pm
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 @ 8:49am
Bio:
Donelle Dreese is a Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Sophrosyne (Aldrich Press), A Wild Turn (Finishing Line) and Looking for A Sunday Afternoon (Pudding House). She recently co-authored a collaborative chapbook titled Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line). Donelle is also the author of the YA novella Dragonflies in the Cowburbs (Anaphora Literary), and the ecofiction novels Deep River Burning (WiDo Publishing) and Cave Walker (Moon Willow Press). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals including Blue Lyra Review, Roanoke Review, Louisville Review, and Potomac Review.
Reason for signing up:
I love reading and writing poetry.
Thursday, May 17, 2018 @ 2:52pm
Saturday, May 19, 2018 @ 9:04pm
Reason for signing up:
Poetry, duh.
Sunday, June 3, 2018 @ 10:43am
Bio:
Father and Mentalist, I write Mech Warrior fanfic themed around all the Winnie the Pooh characters, both deeply accurate and robotic.
I also run a small Waltons family themed breakfast diner in the Midland on Yelp as "Waltons Mountain." Come out and try our John Boy!
Reason for signing up:
Shit like this is for the masses and I really want to be a part of something bigger.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 6:01pm
Bio:
Elizabeth Beck is a teacher, writer and artist who lives with her family on a pond in Lexington, Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
So grateful for this June challenge~ perfect for a school teacher to get her write on to launch summer.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 6:09pm
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Deity Oriented Kickbacks
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June 02, 2018
Better in Threes
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June 03, 2018
A Tumbling Along, Still
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June 04, 2018
American Spirits
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June 06, 2018
Madeline
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June 07, 2018
The Loop
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June 08, 2018
Solicitude
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June 09, 2018
Gathering(an old one I need feedback on)
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June 10, 2018
no rain to sit in: mountain time
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June 12, 2018
Ain't No Place
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June 13, 2018
A Draft
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June 14, 2018
drunk text work break poem
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June 17, 2018
Train Poem
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June 18, 2018
Simultaneously Holy Shit
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June 21, 2018
Commute
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June 22, 2018
friday
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June 23, 2018
mm
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June 26, 2018
I'm good luck
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June 27, 2018
scrambled eggs
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June 30, 2018
Florida
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 @ 11:08am
Bio:
Erin Mathews is a Lexington native and graduate from the University of Cincinnati. A reluctant poet and surefire storyteller, she writes for herself, family and friends.
Reason for signing up:
Lexington Poetry Month keeps keeps me tied to my home town and pushes my poetry every year.
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 2:43pm
Bio:
Gaby Bedetti married a poet she met at a literature conference in Louisville, and together they raised a couple of kids. When she is not teaching at Eastern Kentucky University, she hikes, takes photos, plants trees, and sings in a folk choir.
Reason for signing up:
I love to get up in June to find new poems on lexpomo and then discover the poem I want to write.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Saturday at the YMCA
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June 02, 2018
Your Little Bit Creepy Neighbor
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June 03, 2018
Rock Bridge Loop
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June 04, 2018
Reconciled
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June 05, 2018
More Improbable than Fiction
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June 06, 2018
What Would Our Daughter Say?
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June 07, 2018
Two-Mile Loop at the Horse Park
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June 08, 2018
Vinnie
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June 09, 2018
Sorrow
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June 10, 2018
Mushrooms
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June 11, 2018
Transport Truck
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June 12, 2018
A Winning Horse
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June 13, 2018
Lonelyhearts Finds a Friend
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June 14, 2018
Home Field Advantage
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June 15, 2018
Ronaldo
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June 16, 2018
Bella Figura
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June 17, 2018
What Remains
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June 18, 2018
Daily Horoscope
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June 19, 2018
New American Tragedy
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June 20, 2018
On Air at the Rio Grande
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June 21, 2018
Birthday Poem: A Handshake and a Hug
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June 22, 2018
Neymar Wins the Day
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June 23, 2018
We Will Sing One Song
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June 24, 2018
Awake from Your Slumber
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June 25, 2018
Beyond Four Walls
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June 26, 2018
Salvation for Messi
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June 27, 2018
To My Husband
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June 28, 2018
Yoga Flow
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June 29, 2018
Frame
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June 30, 2018
Sweetness and Light
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 2:23pm
Bio:
Ginny is a journalism professor and a proud mom of two teenagers.
Reason for signing up:
My friend Susan said it was a great idea.
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 9:01pm
Bio:
Harold Sherman was born and raised in Lexington. He went to Henry Clay High School. After 11 years of being on the road as a musician and living in New York, he returned to Lexington and got his Masters in Composition at the University of Kentucky School of Music. He is now a Donovan Scholar at UK, majoring in English Creative Writing. Harold is married to Marianne. They have 2 dogs, Zara and Charlie.
Reason for signing up:
Bronson O'Quinn told us about LexPomo in Writing Practice at Carnegie Center.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
SIDE EFFECTS
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June 02, 2018
HAD THE CHANCE TO MEET YOU, DIZZY
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June 03, 2018
MY CONVERSATION WITH YOU, JON HENDRIX
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June 04, 2018
I HEARD YOU LOUD AND CLEAR, MR. MUMBLES
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June 05, 2018
YOU WERE ALWAYS MOODY, JAMES
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June 06, 2018
HAVE YOU EVER?
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June 07, 2018
COULD BE WORSE
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June 08, 2018
NATURE POSTS
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June 09, 2018
ALBERT EINSTEIN, REGULAR GUY
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June 10, 2018
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS AND APOLOGY
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June 11, 2018
TOP 1%, HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS?
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June 14, 2018
REVISED SAYINGS
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June 15, 2018
IT WON'T FLY
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June 16, 2018
CARL FURILLO, SWEET!
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June 17, 2018
WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN WHEN I WAS IN THE SIXTH GRADE
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June 18, 2018
Privacy
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June 22, 2018
OFF TO WORK WE GO
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June 23, 2018
BEST FRIENDS SONG #1
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June 24, 2018
THE REASON OF RHYME
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June 25, 2018
I RESOLVED TO WRITE A POEM TODAY
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June 30, 2018
LEARNING FROM MATILDA
Monday, May 21, 2018 @ 1:32pm
Bio:
HB Elam is just another loop.
Reason for signing up:
"The real world is chaos. An accident. But in here every detail adds up to something."
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Koinonia, or, Eight Ways of Looking at a Word
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June 02, 2018
Five Ways of Looking at a Battery
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June 06, 2018
Nine Ways of Looking at a Road
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June 09, 2018
Four Ways of Looking at a Tree
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June 10, 2018
Four Ways of Looking at a Cup
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June 13, 2018
Six Ways of Looking at a Flame
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June 17, 2018
Five Ways of Looking at a Kiln
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June 18, 2018
Four Ways of Looking at a Photograph
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June 25, 2018
Eight Ways of Looking at a Window
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June 30, 2018
Four Ways of Looking at a Table
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 @ 10:38am
Bio:
Heather is passionate about teaching children (and adults) to love the earth and inspire a sense of wonder for the outdoors. She enjoys birding, walking barefoot on the grass, and collecting acorns, feathers, and cool looking rocks.
Reason for signing up:
Because I've done Lexington Poetry Month in the past and it is such a great writing community! Also it motivates me to write more.
Friday, April 20, 2018 @ 1:13pm
Bio:
A person bound by nature
Reason for signing up:
Heard from a friend of a friend and wanted a motive to keep writing more
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 4:29pm
Bio:
Lexington native, and a wannabe philosopher. Gotta keep up somehow, right?
Reason for signing up:
Never done poetry month before. Figured it was about time.
Saturday, May 26, 2018 @ 8:50pm
Bio:
Ka'imilani is a Literary Arts teacher at SCAPA Bluegrass, School for the Creative and Performing Arts. She is originally from Hawaii where she taught high school Language Arts.
Reason for signing up:
Because I can. And want to challenge myself once again.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Plus Sized Capers
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June 02, 2018
What Do Nurses Know About Life?
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June 05, 2018
Did I Just Spend 16 hours on Netflix?
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June 06, 2018
Kapoho
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June 08, 2018
Down Wind Kilauea
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June 09, 2018
Edge of Town
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June 10, 2018
Holy Land
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June 12, 2018
Dentures
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June 14, 2018
Grassland Poaching
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June 16, 2018
Bird Feminism On A Saturday Morning
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June 18, 2018
Another Day in America
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June 21, 2018
A Return to the Ozarks
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 2:32pm
Bio:
J. L. Brown studied creative writing at Ohio University under the direction of Dan Chaon. She lives and works in Maysville, KY.
Reason for signing up:
For the challenge!
Monday, May 21, 2018 @ 12:41pm
Bio:
J. Wise teaches children about literature for money. In her spare time, she hangs out with communists and anxiously awaits the apocalyptic fruits of the Anthropocene. If she could have dinner with anyone at all, living or dead, she probably wouldn’t.
Reason for signing up:
To write poems in a less anti-social way than usual.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Summer Without An Apocalypse
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June 03, 2018
Benedictions for the Anthropocene
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June 04, 2018
Professional Body
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June 08, 2018
Institutional Knowledge
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June 10, 2018
DMB
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June 11, 2018
Whatever Kind
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June 12, 2018
He Was Not You
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June 16, 2018
Oxen, Oxen
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June 17, 2018
These Things That Feel Like Disfigurements
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June 26, 2018
What Am I To Do?
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June 29, 2018
Objects or Artifacts
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June 30, 2018
I Must Try Going Forward
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 11:30pm
Bio:
m.a arts leadership student who is trying really hard right now to do it all.
Reason for signing up:
writing needs to be a daily thing in my life again.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 1:06pm
Bio:
I just want to write all of my pain away
Reason for signing up:
Trying to improve. Trying to get back into what I love the most
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 4:28pm
Friday, May 4, 2018 @ 12:11am
Reason for signing up:
How to act like this English major a state away was worth it.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 @ 6:41pm
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 8:30pm
Bio:
Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Uncle, Cousin, Friend, Musician, DJ, Homebrewer, Cook, Editor, Writer. Not necessarily in that order. Sometimes exactly in that order.
Sunday, April 29, 2018 @ 12:23am
Bio:
Jennifer lives with her husband Ryan and son Kyle in Owensboro, Ky. She enjoys reading, writing, crafting, and traveling.
Reason for signing up:
I enjoy reading and writing poetry. This challenges me and pushes me out of my comfort zone.
Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 11:56am
Bio:
Jennifer Barricklow is a poet and freelance editor in Lexington KY. She attends local writers' groups and occasionally leads writing workshops. She also studies tarot, putters in the garden, and makes stuff out of yarn.
Reason for signing up:
LexPoMo has become the center of my writing universe. I would be lost without it.
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Poems:
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June 05, 2018
Visual acuity
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June 06, 2018
Perversity of memory
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June 07, 2018
A clash of spears
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June 08, 2018
The irony is not lost
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June 10, 2018
In triplicate
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June 14, 2018
Acceptance
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June 15, 2018
What we hold
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June 16, 2018
Like there's no tomorrow
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June 17, 2018
Listen to the forest
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June 23, 2018
Hidden story
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June 28, 2018
Summer vacation
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June 30, 2018
The physicist laments
Sunday, May 20, 2018 @ 9:12am
Bio:
Jennifer Beckett is a teacher and writer who graduated with a B.A. from Georgetown College and an M.A. from the University of Kentucky. She teaches English and French. She has been published in The Heartland Review, Accents Publishing’s anthology Bigger Than They Appear, Still: the Journal, Kentucky Monthly, Her Limestone Bones, and more.
Reason for signing up:
I enjoy being part of the LexPoMo community. I am also participating in The Gauntlet this year, which I recommend to anyone who wants to focus on writing. Now I have double motivation to write!
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 8:12am
Friday, May 4, 2018 @ 11:10am
Bio:
Jennifer is a mother of two daughters. She has taught elementary school for 21 years, focusing on Language Arts and struggling readers. She has a passion for words. She is an avid reader and writer and loves to play word games, when she can get people to play with her!
Reason for signing up:
I am excited to get the chance to share my work with others, as well as, read the works and perspectives of others. After joining the Old Washington Wordsmiths and learning about this site, I couldn't wait to join!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Sleep
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June 02, 2018
Flood
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June 02, 2018
untitled
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June 03, 2018
Night Lights
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June 04, 2018
Black Tie Thursday
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June 05, 2018
A Visitor
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June 06, 2018
Living in Pieces
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June 07, 2018
Chocolate Hope
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June 08, 2018
Chocolate Memory
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June 09, 2018
A Matter of Taste
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June 10, 2018
Vacation Posts
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June 11, 2018
Confessions of a Speed Bump
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June 12, 2018
Counting Down the Days
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June 13, 2018
I Saw My Teacher Eat a Worm
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June 14, 2018
Riding Shotgun
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June 15, 2018
Mental Malnutrition
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June 16, 2018
A Friday Night
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June 17, 2018
Bourbon Trail
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June 19, 2018
Mrs. Calvert
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June 30, 2018
i should have written that down!
Friday, June 1, 2018 @ 11:19am
Bio:
I, like you, have more than biography.
Reason for signing up:
Because Bronson and Christopher and all y'all poets are lovely
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 1:08pm
Bio:
Jessica Swafford is a writer from Georgetown, KY.
Reason for signing up:
It is a productive challenge. I have participated every year and enjoy the many voices that come together.
Monday, May 21, 2018 @ 12:52pm
Bio:
His biography is a two-hour walk in the woods.
Reason for signing up:
little voices told me to
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: ONE
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June 02, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: TWO
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June 03, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: THREE
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June 04, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: FOUR
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June 05, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: FIVE
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June 06, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: SIX
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June 07, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: SEVEN
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June 08, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: EIGHT
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June 10, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: NINE
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June 11, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: TEN
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June 12, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: 11 & 12
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June 13, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: THIRTEEN
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June 14, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: FOURTEEN
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June 16, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: FIFTEEN
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June 17, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: SIXTEEN
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June 19, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: 18, 19, 20
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June 20, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: SEVENTEEN
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June 21, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: TWENTY-ONE
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June 22, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: TWENTY-TWO
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June 25, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: TWENTY-THREE
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June 26, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: TWENTY - FOUR
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June 27, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: 25, 26, 27
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June 28, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: TWENTY-EIGHT
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June 29, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD: TWENTY - NINE
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June 30, 2018
LETTERS TO THE DEAD:THIRTY
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 8:19pm
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 6:12pm
Reason for signing up:
“... Like having to be able to say to yourself, ‘I am pretending to sit here reading Albert Camus’s The Fall for the Literature of Alienation midterm, but actually I’m really concentrating on listening to Steve try to impress this girl over the phone, and I am feeling embarrassment and contempt for him, and am thinking he’s a poser, and at the same time I am also uncomfortably aware of times that I’ve also tried to project the idea of myself as hip and cynical so as to impress someone, meaning that not only do I sort of dislike Steve, which in all honesty I do, but part of the reason I dislike him is that when I listen to him on the phone it makes me see similarities and realize things about myself that embarrass me, but I don’t know how to quit doing them—like, if I quit trying to seem nihilistic, even just to myself, then what would happen, what would I be like?”
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 @ 7:26pm
Bio:
Joe Schmidt is a poet, teacher, and worker. In 2011 he hiked the Appalachian trail from Georgia to Maine. He married Sevdagul Z. Schmidt in her native Gaziantep, Turkey in 2017. They have a daughter together.
Reason for signing up:
I enjoy sharing my poems.
Monday, May 14, 2018 @ 10:03pm
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 1:44pm
Bio:
Jordan is a UK graduate, vintage enthusiast and working poet. She’s thrilled to be participating in her fourth year of LexPoMo.
Reason for signing up:
I haven’t written enough since last June, so I’m hoping to break free of the dreaded writer’s block!
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Poems:
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June 14, 2018
Today
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 @ 10:27pm
Thursday, May 17, 2018 @ 6:47pm
Bio:
"Everything I write
I have lived...
Everything I write
is an implication
I have not..."
- Pyra Malfleur
Reason for signing up:
I adore LexPoMo and LexPoMoers.
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Poems:
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June 03, 2018
Valley View
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June 04, 2018
Paradise is an Amphitheater
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June 07, 2018
Windmills that aren't Mine
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June 08, 2018
Reckoning
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June 09, 2018
On the Limits of Nakedness
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June 10, 2018
When It’s Not Worth Breaking Over (she said), but You Know, Somehow, It’s Everything
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June 11, 2018
The Girl By The Fireplace
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June 12, 2018
Concision and Grace
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June 14, 2018
Cut to Re-Creation
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June 23, 2018
Catching the Wind
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June 24, 2018
Strange (Bar) Communion
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June 26, 2018
Bright and Fragile Things
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June 27, 2018
untitled
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June 28, 2018
The Rock I Throw Myself Against; or Coming Down from Nebo
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June 30, 2018
Before the Fall
Thursday, May 24, 2018 @ 12:26pm
Bio:
Josey Bryant wrote his first work, in high school. Since then, he has written every day, and is interested in getting his work out into the world. He went to Maysville Community and Technical College. He received an associates in Arts degree. He will soon start classes at the University of Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
I am a young writer, who is anxious to get my work read by others.
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 7:52pm
Bio:
Justin has a degree in German from the University of Kentucky. He likes to travel as much as he can, in search of both solitude and the good people between stretches of nothingness. He loves his friends and family, and he can't stop himself from telling a good, or bad, joke.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because I enjoy writing poetry, and I need to do it more often. This should inspire me to force words on paper when they don't come easy, and to let them pour out when they do. If someone enjoys it as much as I enjoy writing it, that's a win for sure!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Good Mourning, Satan!
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June 02, 2018
Once Upon a Holler
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June 03, 2018
About my Maters
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June 04, 2018
Pizen!
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June 05, 2018
Summer ain't no bummer?
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June 06, 2018
The Baddest Man in the Suburbs
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June 11, 2018
It's hard to write good on vacation...
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June 12, 2018
Thank You, Dennis!
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June 14, 2018
As I lay here in a stupor...
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June 18, 2018
Weekly Circular
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June 22, 2018
Jurassic Drive Thru
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June 24, 2018
No Regrets
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June 27, 2018
A Desperate Plea
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June 29, 2018
Red River Nightmare
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June 30, 2018
untitled
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June 30, 2018
As Darkness Closes In
Thursday, May 24, 2018 @ 9:05pm
Bio:
A person who writes for pleasure.
Reason for signing up:
It is an excellent exercise plus you get published. What a deal. Thank you, Bronson, Chris and others who afford us this opportunity.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Signs of Life
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June 02, 2018
Where's My Phone
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June 03, 2018
Ten Days in Paradise
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June 04, 2018
Fierce Winds May Blow But
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June 05, 2018
Vacation Digs
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June 06, 2018
Eisenhower Weather
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June 07, 2018
Circus,Circus: Upon Visiting the Ringling
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June 08, 2018
Empty Places
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June 09, 2018
Ocean View
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June 10, 2018
Artifact
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June 11, 2018
PLACE
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June 12, 2018
Summer Voyage
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June 13, 2018
Eisenhower Weather
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June 13, 2018
Eisenhower Weather
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June 13, 2018
Accumulation
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June 14, 2018
Suffer the Little Children
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June 15, 2018
Non Violent Protest
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June 16, 2018
Family Call
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June 17, 2018
No Forebearance
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June 18, 2018
Code Breaker
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June 19, 2018
Torch Light
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June 20, 2018
Summer Day
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June 21, 2018
Summer's Best Gift
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June 22, 2018
Endurance
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June 23, 2018
What's in a Name, Would a Rose
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June 24, 2018
The Report Card
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June 25, 2018
Wish You Were . . .
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June 26, 2018
The Guide
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June 27, 2018
The Christening Dress
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June 28, 2018
Hide and Seek
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June 29, 2018
Generation Gap
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June 30, 2018
Home Fires
Saturday, May 19, 2018 @ 11:10pm
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 2:58pm
Bio:
a lightning bolt.
punctuated by thunder.
Reason for signing up:
the gods demanded it.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 4:04pm
Bio:
Lives and gardens in Frankfort. Teaches college writing.
Reason for signing up:
I'm a hopeful masochist.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 2:19pm
Bio:
Karen George, a native Kentuckian, has published a full-length poetry collection, Swim Your Way Back, and a second forthcoming, A Map and One Year, and five chapbooks, most recently an ekphrastic collaborative chapbook, Frame and Mount the Sky. She reviews poetry at Poetry Matters blog: http://readwritepoetry.blogspot.com/, and is co-founder and fiction editor of the online journal, Waypoints: http://www.waypointsmag.com/. She enjoys taking photographs and visiting museums, cemeteries, gardens and parks, the woods, mountains, and historic river towns—particularly any place near a body of water.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because this will be my sixth year of writing a poem-a-day with other LEXPOMO poets in June, and I've always found it inspiring. Also, for me, having a daily deadline is a good thing. I work well under pressure.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Georgia O'Keeffe's "Evening Star No. V," 1917
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June 10, 2018
Georgia O'Keeffe's From the Plains I, 1919
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June 11, 2018
To wrestle something out for myself
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June 13, 2018
I Want So Terribly To Feel
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June 14, 2018
I have wanted to explain to you
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June 15, 2018
Emily Carr's "Laughing Forest," 1939
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June 16, 2018
I Want To Have My Share
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June 17, 2018
Listen to me
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June 18, 2018
There is so little known about
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June 19, 2018
When one is listening intensely
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June 23, 2018
To Remain Intact (a Li-Young Lee cento)
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June 25, 2018
Kindness After So Much Noise (cento)
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June 26, 2018
Georgia O'Keeffe's "The Old Maple, Lake George," 1926
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 9:28pm
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 1:05pm
Bio:
Almost 3 years into my 8th decade...
Two chapbooks: SLIPSTREAM (Finishing Line Press, 2013)
and SELF-PORTRAIT AS HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (Glass Poetry Press, 2017....
Can be found in Still: The Journal, Wind’97, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Kudzu, and a handful of other journals ...
Living the good life in Cincinnati with their partner of 27 years.
Reason for signing up:
Wanting to see the work of and take up this kind of challenge with writers from the other side of the river as I begin giving shape to a new project. Writing in community always motivates me.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
last questions
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June 02, 2018
last questions~2
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June 03, 2018
last questions~3
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June 04, 2018
Apostate
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June 05, 2018
The Poet of a Certain Age
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June 06, 2018
Sitting With Merwin’s “Utterance”
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June 08, 2018
Poetry Takes to the Streets—-after Van Gogh’s Starry Night
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June 09, 2018
Cento: Ten Pages Into THE OVERSTORY
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June 12, 2018
Ghostly Genius
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June 14, 2018
Old Enough To Die*
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June 16, 2018
Complicit
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June 17, 2018
at what price
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June 19, 2018
in plain sight
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June 23, 2018
Borrowed Dream
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June 28, 2018
Compline on the Porch
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June 29, 2018
remember this
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June 30, 2018
placing a stone
Thursday, May 10, 2018 @ 6:52am
Monday, April 30, 2018 @ 9:45am
Bio:
Katherine is a student at Lafayette High school. She is currently a sophomore and is in SCAPA for Literary Arts. And is also in the pre-engineering program.
Reason for signing up:
Publishing Credits
Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 3:46pm
Bio:
Kathleen is a writer of fiction, poetry, and memoir, struggling daily to see things not just as they are, but as they could be in a poem.
Reason for signing up:
A friend invited me and it seems like a good challenge.
Saturday, May 26, 2018 @ 8:05am
Bio:
Kathleen Gregg has found a literary home within the vibrant writing community of Lexington, where she regularly takes poetry writing classes at Carnegie Center and participates in a writing group. She is proud to have graduated from the inaugural Author Academy program at Carnegie.
Reason for signing up:
It's a month long poetry fest!!
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Poems:
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June 05, 2018
No Cat's Life For Me
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June 06, 2018
My Son Sends Me A Video Via WeChat
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June 07, 2018
Imagine a blue
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June 08, 2018
Mourning Alone
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June 12, 2018
White Hot in the Wee Hours (Spring Street Bar, NYC)
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June 13, 2018
Pen and Ink
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June 15, 2018
Freedom
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June 16, 2018
Would kitty be a Trump supporter?
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June 28, 2018
A Matter of Vision
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June 30, 2018
Ophelia
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 5:28pm
Bio:
Katie Cross is a ginger who likes reading graphic novels, playing video games, and writing(/trying to write) poetry. She grew up in southeastern Kentucky on the outskirts of Appalachia, but has called Lexington her home for almost seven years now. Her favorite Beatle is Paul.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because I need to work on my craft more--don't we all?--but also because I have more free time (and energy) for an endeavor such as this one in the summer.
Thursday, May 24, 2018 @ 9:07pm
Bio:
prison documentaries, ghost hunting reality TV, and becoming Tina Belcher
Reason for signing up:
first venture into the real world without a high school writing class to keep me writing!
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 10:13pm
Bio:
Kelley Tennille is a writer & poet, a solitary witch, and a dog mom living on a small farm in Leesburg, Kentucky. She has recently completed her first chapbook of poetry, called Dead Nettle.
Reason for signing up:
Bc challenge accepted
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 2:50pm
Bio:
kelly is just a person looking to start writing poetry again.
Reason for signing up:
because i’m afraid i didn’t use it and i lost it.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
sword and board
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June 02, 2018
peaches
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June 03, 2018
variant
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June 04, 2018
it’s just the house settling
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June 05, 2018
2 fails. 2 save. it’s your turn.
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June 06, 2018
a changling came home from war.
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June 07, 2018
sober
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June 08, 2018
bright blue braids
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June 09, 2018
time and money
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June 10, 2018
reminiscent
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June 11, 2018
chess-not checkers
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June 12, 2018
red letter day
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June 13, 2018
the pythia at delphi
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June 14, 2018
new moon
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June 15, 2018
ghosts can’t heal.
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June 18, 2018
vampire
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June 19, 2018
werewolf
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June 20, 2018
shapeshifter
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June 24, 2018
the avatar
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 10:29am
Bio:
Kerfoot is a freshly graduated English Educator from Eastern Kentucky University. He also plays drums in a pop-punk band called "When Autumn Calls"
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 9:05am
Bio:
A lost soul finding his way with the help of his best friend.
Reason for signing up:
Because poetry ain't dead.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 11:46am
Bio:
Kimi Hardesty loves reading, writing and all things nature. She recently moved to Lexington after living in Dallas and Seattle. She will hold an MFA in Creative Writing upon graduation from Goddard College in July.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because I want to be serious about my writing and because Chris encouraged his Gauntlet class to do so.
Thursday, June 7, 2018 @ 3:32pm
Reason for signing up:
I needed a place where I could express myself and not be afraid. This site makes me feel welcome and I hope to become less timid through it. Art not shared is thought.
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Poems:
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June 07, 2018
Mr.C
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June 08, 2018
The Life of the Party
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June 09, 2018
Finding Ourselves In Nature
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June 10, 2018
A Week's Log from a Lonely Mind
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June 11, 2018
3 A.M. Thoughts
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June 12, 2018
Untitled
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June 13, 2018
Cross Country Season Starts Today
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June 14, 2018
The Man Who Wore Our Home
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June 15, 2018
An Early Morning Dilemma
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June 16, 2018
Her and Stella Artois
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June 17, 2018
My Father
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June 18, 2018
It’s In My Blood
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June 19, 2018
Untitled
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June 20, 2018
Paranoia
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June 21, 2018
Unprecedented Rainfall
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June 22, 2018
You Said What I Needed to Hear
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June 23, 2018
Strength in Numbers
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June 24, 2018
Tonight I Pray
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June 26, 2018
To The Lady Who Suggested I Straighten My Hair
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June 27, 2018
Diet: Day One
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June 28, 2018
Guess Who
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June 29, 2018
Untitled
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June 30, 2018
Glitter Bomb
Sunday, May 6, 2018 @ 8:04am
Bio:
I live a few blocks from the Ohio River and teach high school English.
Reason for signing up:
I like the discipline of writing a poem a day, even if I choose not to post. Plus, the community that develops over this month is fantastic.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
To the Seniors Who Just Graduated
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June 03, 2018
Queen
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June 04, 2018
At Club
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June 05, 2018
Ishmael
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June 09, 2018
Ahab
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June 10, 2018
Queequeg
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June 15, 2018
Omens
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June 17, 2018
At the Bedford Diner, PA
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June 19, 2018
Spirit Spout
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June 21, 2018
Stubb
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June 23, 2018
The Howling Infinite
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June 26, 2018
Pip
Sunday, May 6, 2018 @ 10:40am
Bio:
Lauren likes writing, loves poetry, and would die for a California redwood, chainsaw to the chest and all.
Reason for signing up:
Because "nothing focuses the mind like the last minute," or, in the less sanitized words of Samuel Johnson, "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
River Queen
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June 03, 2018
Post Work Passings
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June 04, 2018
talking dogs
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June 05, 2018
talking dogs II
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June 06, 2018
talking dogs III
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June 07, 2018
traveling pig
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June 08, 2018
Goodbye old Indy hat, may we meet again
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June 09, 2018
Breakroom revelations at the end of a long shift
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June 10, 2018
return
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June 12, 2018
Packing
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June 16, 2018
graduation party
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June 17, 2018
beginnings of a long process
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June 19, 2018
Patience is not a virtue I possess
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June 24, 2018
the sunken place
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June 25, 2018
Drama
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June 27, 2018
exhaustion
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 7:55am
Bio:
Larry Wheeler is a political agnostic and occasional psychonaut living in Lexington. He is mostly Over It.
Reason for signing up:
It's Jim Lally's fault.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Lao-Tzu Bides His Time
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June 03, 2018
Or What You Think You Need
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June 07, 2018
Untied
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June 08, 2018
Tumbleweeds
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June 10, 2018
Cardio Ballistica
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June 13, 2018
Invisible Ink
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June 14, 2018
So Long, Anthony
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June 15, 2018
Go To, Y'all
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June 19, 2018
Your Call Is Very Impotent To Us
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June 21, 2018
A Visit from Uncle Insomnia
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June 21, 2018
untitled
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June 25, 2018
About those scars...
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June 25, 2018
untitled
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June 28, 2018
Observations of a Political Agnostic
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June 30, 2018
Strangely Familiar
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 11:48am
Bio:
I was never any good at Bio. I hated dissecting the frogs--gross! I did like my Geometry teacher. He had an almost full head of hair!
Reason for signing up:
I like signing up for things. It makes me feel productive. I rarely do much after signing up, but, boy, it sure feels good at the time!
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Poems:
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June 05, 2018
billy
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June 06, 2018
Our Last Trip to Victoria's Secret
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June 07, 2018
Africa
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June 08, 2018
Lightbringer
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June 09, 2018
Strolling
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June 12, 2018
A Certain Sadness
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June 13, 2018
pick me up
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June 14, 2018
Driver Carries Less Than $20
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June 15, 2018
Ascending Pit
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June 16, 2018
An Unbroken Line
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June 17, 2018
Morning Paper
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June 18, 2018
One-Liner Poem #17
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June 19, 2018
you can't fix it
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June 20, 2018
So What?
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June 21, 2018
I'm Done With Poetry
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June 22, 2018
Repurposed
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June 23, 2018
The Year
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June 24, 2018
Take Me From Behind
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June 25, 2018
The Uncertainty Principle
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June 26, 2018
Angry Joe
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June 27, 2018
Edith's Prescriptions
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June 29, 2018
How Can I See My Entire Poem In This Undersized Text Box?
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June 30, 2018
The Far Side of the Valley
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 12:48pm
Bio:
Born and raised in Richmond, KY. A recent graduate of American Public University, with a degree in Sport Management
Reason for signing up:
Poetry heals open wounds
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 5:29pm
Bio:
Lennart Lundh is a poet, short-fictionist, historian, and photographer. His work has appeared internationally since 1965.
Reason for signing up:
Because the words will come.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
(If you don't have a sturdy umbrella)
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June 02, 2018
(Four in the morning somewhere
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June 03, 2018
(in dreams I touch my ghosts
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June 04, 2018
(It continues with decorated cups
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June 05, 2018
(Herb and the Bone Witch
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June 06, 2018
(She lies naked
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June 07, 2018
(The boy with a clock on his back
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June 08, 2018
(They've grown old
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June 09, 2018
(Looking down the road
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June 10, 2018
(Oh, the weather
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June 11, 2018
(I hear the river singing
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June 12, 2018
(She sits erect as a young girl
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June 13, 2018
(I don't have to be your first
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June 14, 2018
(If there was anything little
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June 15, 2018
The kids are gone
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June 16, 2018
(It seemed a good idea
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June 17, 2018
(This is the picture
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June 18, 2018
Imagine
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June 19, 2018
Like Caillabotte's man
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June 20, 2018
The woods blazed
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June 21, 2018
Naked to each other
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June 22, 2018
It's mid-June
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June 23, 2018
The bride and groom
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June 24, 2018
As we leave LaSalle Street
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June 25, 2018
These
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June 26, 2018
This is the market square
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June 27, 2018
The polished moon
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June 28, 2018
The instant this monk
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June 29, 2018
It's rainng in the 9eme
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June 30, 2018
After following you home
Thursday, May 3, 2018 @ 8:17pm
Bio:
Linda has been writing poetry for a long time. This is her 4th year with Lexpomo.
Reason for signing up:
I enjoy participating in Lexpomo
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 @ 6:56pm
Bio:
Lisa Miller Henry is a high school English teacher in Lexington, Kentucky. When she’s not in the classroom, she spends time her time writing, hiking, and cheering her son on at soccer games.
Reason for signing up:
LexPoMo creates an amazing community of writers. Starting each summer with this community is a blessing.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 @ 8:09pm
Bio:
Liz Prather teaches writing at Lafayette High School.
Reason for signing up:
It's June.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 @ 7:15pm
Reason for signing up:
I enjoy word play, a good challenge, and accountability not to mention the delight of reading others’ work.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
My Appalachian Babyboomer Dad
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June 02, 2018
Legacy of the Tarp
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June 03, 2018
Twinsies with Arizona
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June 04, 2018
Traumaville, Arkansas
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June 05, 2018
Weathering Wonderland
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June 07, 2018
Richness
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June 08, 2018
Grandma’s Homemade Magic
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June 11, 2018
Disease
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June 18, 2018
A Crushed Cry
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 1:00pm
Bio:
M J Eaton was a Poet-in-the-Schools due to Grant's awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts from 1972 until 1987. She worked in TN, VA, KY, IA, AR, and MO. Her books include GRAB ME A BUS, FOR POETS, and FEELING MY WAY. She has taught writing at THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, DRAKE UNIVERSITY, and THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, as well as several community colleges where she was a PITS. She presently is working on her next book while living in Missouri.
Reason for signing up:
Having lived and worked in Appalachia, I am still very much at home there. I enjoy the challenge of writing at least a poem a day.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Sleeping With the Enemy
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June 02, 2018
She Could Only Breathe When They Were Alone
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June 03, 2018
Never Enough Money in the Account
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June 04, 2018
Under Water Out of Oxygen
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June 05, 2018
Making It to the Other Bank
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June 06, 2018
No Tools Taught to Rise Above Home
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June 07, 2018
LEARNING TO BREATHE WHILE HOLDING HER BREATH
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June 12, 2018
Cambio
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June 13, 2018
RECHARGING
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June 15, 2018
Please Drift, and Drift
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June 16, 2018
SISTER'S LASTING WORDS
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June 18, 2018
Incontenant
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June 20, 2018
Who Won?
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June 21, 2018
Secure in the Knowledge
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June 23, 2018
Comfortable in Their Skin
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June 24, 2018
A HOMMAGE TO WHAT WAS ON THE OUTSIDE
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June 25, 2018
LIE IN THE GRASS, ROLL IN THE SUN
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June 27, 2018
AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE
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June 29, 2018
COMPARTMENTALIZING
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June 30, 2018
Oh, Yeah, and Don't Forget About . . .
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 6:30am
Bio:
Maggie is a third time participant (at least) in Lex Po Mo. She is also a teacher, an environmentalist, and a passionate writer.
Reason for signing up:
To write more.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Calling
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June 02, 2018
The Drive
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June 03, 2018
Little Flower
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June 04, 2018
Upon Stealing Butterflies from the Conservatory
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June 06, 2018
To the aggressive catcaller on Broadway:
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June 07, 2018
Definition
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June 08, 2018
Seismic
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June 09, 2018
Cellar
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June 10, 2018
A storm by myself
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June 12, 2018
43 A.D.
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June 13, 2018
untitled
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June 15, 2018
Life's Blood
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June 16, 2018
Anticipation
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June 17, 2018
I noticed
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June 19, 2018
This may be strange
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June 21, 2018
Formula
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June 22, 2018
Leaving
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June 24, 2018
Travels
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June 26, 2018
Arctic Winds
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June 27, 2018
Unexpected rain storm
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 9:59am
Bio:
The idea of writing a short biography in third person was, to be brief, terrifically unappealing to Edward Michael Naish.
Reason for signing up:
Mr. McCurry hosts board game club, and I enjoy board game club a lot.
Sunday, May 6, 2018 @ 12:26pm
Bio:
life is funny bees make honey
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
the first one
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June 02, 2018
i like your face tattoo
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June 03, 2018
more at 11
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June 04, 2018
my therapist made me do it
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June 05, 2018
no pain nor gain
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June 06, 2018
no bones
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June 07, 2018
fish things
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June 09, 2018
poem about a poem
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June 10, 2018
blame it on astrology
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June 13, 2018
i didn't have have a phone for a week and didn't know when my period was going to start
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June 14, 2018
20 pounds of something or another
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June 16, 2018
quiet little battle
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June 17, 2018
shit pops off in the liquor barn parking lot on a Saturday
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June 18, 2018
swamp body pretty body
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June 26, 2018
untitled
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June 27, 2018
porcelain, revisited
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June 30, 2018
Swallowing June
Monday, May 14, 2018 @ 5:26pm
Bio:
Madison is a psychology major in Lexington, KY. Her writing focuses on social issues, mental illness, and this strange human condition. She drinks much less coffee now than when she did LexPoMo last.
Reason for signing up:
I need accountability to get back into writing. Balancing work and school has distracted me from creating art.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
untitled
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June 02, 2018
Ode to the insomniac
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June 03, 2018
untitled
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June 04, 2018
untitled
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June 05, 2018
untitled
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June 06, 2018
untitled
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June 07, 2018
untitled
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June 08, 2018
untitled
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June 09, 2018
untitled
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June 10, 2018
untitled
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June 11, 2018
untitled
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June 12, 2018
untitled
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June 13, 2018
untitled
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June 15, 2018
untitled
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June 16, 2018
untitled
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June 18, 2018
Beach bodies
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June 19, 2018
untitled
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June 20, 2018
untitled
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June 21, 2018
untitled
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June 22, 2018
White girl’s anxiety re-evaluates itself.
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June 23, 2018
untitled
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June 24, 2018
23&us
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June 25, 2018
untitled
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June 27, 2018
Transparency
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June 30, 2018
untitled
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 4:34pm
Bio:
A native of Ohio, Maggie Brewer is a high school social studies teacher in central Kentucky. She is working hard to use fewer disposable straws and wishes she has seen more of the world at this point in her life.
Reason for signing up:
Benjamin Franklin said, "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about." Since teachers take the summer off I guess I'll have to write.
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Poems:
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June 02, 2018
The Queen Speaks
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June 03, 2018
Squeaky Queen
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June 04, 2018
Dominant Traits
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June 05, 2018
Arsenal
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June 07, 2018
Last Night
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June 11, 2018
1997-2000
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June 27, 2018
He said, I teach Poetry
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June 28, 2018
9066
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June 29, 2018
Guide for the Hoarder’s Child in the Case of A Parent’s Death
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June 30, 2018
Pride
Monday, April 30, 2018 @ 9:47pm
Bio:
Stubborn on both sides of her family, Maggie is an English teacher who travels mainly to try different cuisines. Coffee and ice cream are her staples, and she wouldn't be the writer she is without Mary Oliver or David Swerdlow.
Reason for signing up:
Chris "the Jerk" McCurry suggested it to me, and I was sold on the idea of joining a humble literary community.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
What My Nephew Teaches Me, One
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June 02, 2018
Brother: Who You Became While I Was Away
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June 03, 2018
Cookie Decorating
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June 04, 2018
Family Bones
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June 05, 2018
Thoughts from the Summer School Regular
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June 06, 2018
A Metaphor for Me
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June 07, 2018
What My Nephew Teaches Me, Two
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June 08, 2018
Ineluctable
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June 10, 2018
In Search of the Muse
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June 11, 2018
If My Boyfriend Went Blind
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June 12, 2018
What My Nephew Teaches Me, Three
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June 13, 2018
The Family's Tradition
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June 14, 2018
Ifs
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June 15, 2018
Those Were Some Days
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June 16, 2018
To Understand Soccer
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June 17, 2018
An Elegy
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June 18, 2018
What My Nephew Teaches Me, Four
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June 19, 2018
What Do You Expect
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June 20, 2018
Another Bible Verse Politicians Shouldn't Be Using
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June 21, 2018
Unbinding Spell
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June 22, 2018
For Antwon Rose
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June 23, 2018
Syllables, the CPR of a Poem
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June 25, 2018
Dear Facebook Posters
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June 26, 2018
Two Poems for 6/25 and 6/26
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June 27, 2018
The Lesson
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June 28, 2018
Fib for The City
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June 29, 2018
Marriage Advice and Sauvignon Blanc
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June 30, 2018
Deli Counter Ode
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 7:11pm
Bio:
Malinda O’Quinn is an artist, wife, mom-to-be, crazy cat lady and general weirdo.
Reason for signing up:
Bronson. The answer is Bronson.
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 2:13pm
Bio:
Margaret wants to keep the game afoo
Reason for signing up:
Reading and writing new poems is a enliving thing
Saturday, June 9, 2018 @ 9:31pm
Reason for signing up:
I love writing and reading poetry!
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 @ 11:42pm
Bio:
Mary Alice MacDonald is a poet living and writing in Raleigh, NC. Her work can most recently be seen in Rust + Moth and Rising Phoenix Review. She misses driving through Kentucky in the summer and smelling the perfume of bourbon distilleries heavy in the air.
Reason for signing up:
I love my people and my poets in KY and I miss them and I need to get myself into gear writing these poems!
Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 12:08am
Thursday, April 26, 2018 @ 10:38am
Thursday, April 26, 2018 @ 9:55pm
Bio:
Mary Lou is a mother, grandmother and hospital chaplain.
Reason for signing up:
The invitation and challenge to write poetry offered me the nudge I needed to find a new means of personal reflection and expression. Thank you, Susan.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 10:35am
Bio:
Maya is currently a junior at Sayre School. She loves travel, music, spicy food and is constantly lost in thought.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 7:59pm
Bio:
Since moving back home to Kentucky, Meadow has found a great comfort in sharing particularly arranged words with friends who do the same.
Reason for signing up:
Something about the interactive nature of lexpomo pulls me in each year.
Friday, June 1, 2018 @ 5:43pm
Bio:
Artist, activist, and advocate, Megan Gieske, is a writer and photographer. A recent creative writing graduate from Asbury University, she studied abroad in over twelve countries on scholarship with Semester at Sea. Most recently, she lived in Cape Town, South Africa after winning a travel grant.
Megan’s poetry may be found in numerous journals and anthologies. She has been shortlisted for the Live Canon first collection contest and a finalist for the 2017 Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets, and her writing was the recipient of the She Is Noble Award from Aspiration Media that gave $10,000 to feed inner-city kids in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Monday, May 28, 2018 @ 4:42pm
Bio:
Melva Sue Priddy, born in central Kentucky, continues to live in central KY. She reads, she writes, she gardens, she Mammaw Mellys. She wasn't born yesterday however she still delights in friendship, laughter and living.
Reason for signing up:
I enjoy the challenge, and the lack of competition--just writers writing together.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
With
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June 02, 2018
An Angel at the Center
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June 03, 2018
An Experiment with Poetry
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June 04, 2018
Daily
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June 05, 2018
Ready-To-Wear
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June 06, 2018
Given a Room of Our Own, Anything…
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June 07, 2018
Lakes, Presidents, and Littles
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June 08, 2018
Forgive Me, My Friend, If I State the Obvious
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June 09, 2018
Weather Forecast
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June 10, 2018
True Light
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June 11, 2018
When You Have an Undertaker for a Friend
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June 12, 2018
When to Use a Claw Hammer
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June 14, 2018
Broccoli Religion
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June 16, 2018
(Sometimes) God is Hard (of Hearing)
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June 17, 2018
The Lions Live Here Now
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June 18, 2018
Twenty-six in a Fishbowl Year
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June 19, 2018
Your Tender Buttons
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June 20, 2018
Second Sleep
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June 21, 2018
In Vogue
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June 22, 2018
Emptiness & Emptiness
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June 23, 2018
Rewards of Sauntering w/ three quotes from Thoreau
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June 24, 2018
We May Exist in Many Worlds But Experience Only One
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June 25, 2018
Howl
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June 26, 2018
They Will Tempt
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June 27, 2018
Honestly, My Littles Should be Thankful for My Eight A.M. Appointment
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June 28, 2018
The Taste of Dirt & Blood Still Lingers
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June 29, 2018
The Imagination
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June 30, 2018
Intensity
Monday, May 21, 2018 @ 1:23pm
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
unforbidden premises
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June 02, 2018
residency
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June 03, 2018
redeemed
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June 04, 2018
sunday sunrise
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June 05, 2018
totem pole
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June 06, 2018
dispelled
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June 07, 2018
insatiable
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June 08, 2018
squeezed
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June 09, 2018
naquillity
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June 10, 2018
meadow's lark
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June 11, 2018
honeysuckle
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 10:32pm
Bio:
I'm a quirky professional cook. Sometimes I write poems. I live with my wife and our dogs and cats in Frankfort, Ky.
Reason for signing up:
I'm trying to keep up with my amazing wife.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 12:29pm
Bio:
Mike Wilson, a writer in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, has had stories and poetry published in small magazines and anthologies including Appalachian Heritage, The Seventh Wave, killjoylit, and Chicago Literati.
Reason for signing up:
I forgot to take my medication.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
It's, Like, Incredible
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June 02, 2018
American Dream
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June 03, 2018
Physics in a Black Hole
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June 04, 2018
Talking Heads
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June 05, 2018
Old Folks Home
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June 06, 2018
Not-the-First Lady
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June 07, 2018
When the river flows
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June 08, 2018
A Different Metoo Movement
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June 09, 2018
Dolly Parton/Dalai Lama
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June 10, 2018
Flying American
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June 11, 2018
Five o'clock bullfrog
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June 12, 2018
One Happy Woman
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June 13, 2018
Little Wave
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June 14, 2018
Seventh Wave
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June 15, 2018
Beach Drinks
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June 16, 2018
Parts and Labor
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June 17, 2018
Grandkids at the Beach
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June 18, 2018
Sweet Dreams
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June 19, 2018
On Vacation
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June 20, 2018
I Dare Not Ask
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June 21, 2018
Duh
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June 22, 2018
Art of the Deal
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June 23, 2018
Pretty Woman
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June 24, 2018
Yosemite
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June 25, 2018
Go Fish
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June 26, 2018
Jeff Sessions Cites the Bible
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June 27, 2018
Purple Iris
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June 29, 2018
Twilight's Last Gleaming (a bop)
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June 30, 2018
Final Haiku
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 2:58pm
Monday, April 30, 2018 @ 12:27am
Bio:
Misty Skaggs is an author, artist, activist and part-time hermit from the east Kentucky backwoods. Lexington is about as close as she'll venture to city lights.
Her first poetry chapbook, Biscuits and Blisters, will be coming out soon from Workhorse!
Skaggs' ain't too good for her raising or for shameless self promotion. Her other interests include stinky junk stores, stray cats and making rich people uncomfortable.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up so i can indulge in some virtual people watching, binge on poetry and convince the good folks of Lexington to purchase my first poetry chapbook, Biscuits and Blisters! coming out soon from Workhorse.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Lexington to Exeter
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June 02, 2018
night driving.
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June 03, 2018
a romantic murmur
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June 04, 2018
buzzard bait
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June 06, 2018
city lights and bug bites
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June 09, 2018
saving on shaving
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June 10, 2018
summer storm
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June 12, 2018
precarious
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June 17, 2018
after a show
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June 18, 2018
burning up
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June 19, 2018
thorny
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June 21, 2018
doctor's office art
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June 22, 2018
a long day
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June 23, 2018
murder weapon
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June 30, 2018
soul sweat
Monday, May 7, 2018 @ 3:48pm
Bio:
The author of 29 books, mostly poetry, novels and short stories... Editor and publisher of Old Seventy Creek Press... At work on a novel and another book of poetry to be completed with work from this year's LEXPOMO...
Reason for signing up:
I have been here for every past Lexington Poetry Month and I do look forward to reading the work of other participants here.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
And
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June 02, 2018
Geese at a four-way stop
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June 03, 2018
As I write to-day an a poem
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June 04, 2018
To Dayana
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June 05, 2018
This Morning
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June 06, 2018
I I should move
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June 07, 2018
Villanelle of a sort for Guatemala
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June 08, 2018
Early June Morning
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June 09, 2018
From my window
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June 10, 2018
Your Voice Takes Over Mine
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June 11, 2018
Found Rhymes, a Tease
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June 12, 2018
My Words for You
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June 13, 2018
Susana calls me on Tuesday
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June 14, 2018
This Poem is for the rabbit
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June 15, 2018
Pulling Weeds in the Garden
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June 16, 2018
I have two feeders
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June 17, 2018
My Poem
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June 18, 2018
I always know
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June 19, 2018
Her Poem
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June 20, 2018
I do not have enough
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June 21, 2018
The Bottle
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June 22, 2018
Holding you in my Memory
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June 23, 2018
After two Days of Rain
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June 24, 2018
Request to go out for dinner
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June 25, 2018
First flight to layover
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June 26, 2018
3 AM Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport
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June 27, 2018
In Guatemala City Today
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June 28, 2018
Day Two in Guatemala City
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June 29, 2018
Day Three in Guatemala
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July 01, 2018
Today began
Friday, May 11, 2018 @ 10:17am
Bio:
Nancy K. Jentsch has taught German and Spanish for over thirty years at Northern Kentucky University. She has published scholarly articles, short fiction and poetry in journals such as Journal of Kentucky Studies, Eclectica, Aurorean, and Blinders. Her chapbook, Authorized Visitors, has been published by Cherry Grove Collections, an imprint of WordTech Communications (2017). Seven of her ekphrastic poems appear in the collaborative chapbook Frame and Mount the Sky (2017).
Reason for signing up:
I am looking forward to the discipline of a poem a day and eager to see what the month of poems brings.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
may June bloom
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June 02, 2018
Skeptical Sky
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June 03, 2018
Cup of Summer
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June 04, 2018
Brakes Scraping
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June 05, 2018
When Hummingbirds Finally Thrum
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June 06, 2018
5 Ways of Looking at 5 Orchid Blossoms on June 5th
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June 07, 2018
Sun's Trophy
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June 08, 2018
Payment in Kind
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June 09, 2018
Sun-Licked Temptress
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June 11, 2018
Indifference
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June 12, 2018
Mirrored
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June 13, 2018
I As the Glue
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June 14, 2018
Swim in the Sky
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June 17, 2018
My Son Moves Out
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June 19, 2018
Pen on Paper
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June 20, 2018
Call 202-353-1555 *
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June 23, 2018
rain-graced day
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June 25, 2018
June's Tunic
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June 27, 2018
Worries' Beads
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June 28, 2018
Reincarnation
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June 29, 2018
Haiku
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June 30, 2018
Eight Ways of Looking at Deptford Pinks
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 @ 4:11pm
Bio:
Nettie Farris has one son marrying, one son graduating from college, and one son graduating from high school summer 2018.
Reason for signing up:
Lexington Poetry Month calls to me.
Monday, April 30, 2018 @ 9:34am
Monday, April 30, 2018 @ 9:02am
Reason for signing up:
Practice, publishing, and feedback.
Monday, June 4, 2018 @ 1:22am
Bio:
Nollie is an art school dropout and vaguely problematic person. Check out his drawings on instagram at halfwitchdisaster, if you want to see his art.
Reason for signing up:
My brother insisted, and I do enough to let him down as it is.
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Poems:
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June 04, 2018
Castle
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June 05, 2018
Tapetum Lucidum
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June 06, 2018
Honeythoughts
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June 07, 2018
Arch
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June 08, 2018
Gemini Season
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June 09, 2018
The House of the Tiger
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June 10, 2018
Daywake
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June 11, 2018
Prayer
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June 12, 2018
Luminaries
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June 13, 2018
Better Devils
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June 14, 2018
God's Architect
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June 15, 2018
Violent Innocence
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June 16, 2018
Woodspell
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June 17, 2018
Ashtongue
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June 18, 2018
Quietwork
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June 19, 2018
Cocoonbreak
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June 20, 2018
Sombersong
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June 21, 2018
Cycleworn
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June 22, 2018
Brothersank
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June 23, 2018
Numbersleep
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June 24, 2018
Nestlespun
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June 25, 2018
Springladen
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June 26, 2018
Suitform
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June 27, 2018
Goldpoised
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June 28, 2018
Muttherald
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June 29, 2018
Halfthought
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June 30, 2018
Hivesick
Friday, May 18, 2018 @ 1:52pm
Bio:
Pat Owen went form the left-brain career of legal publishing to the right-brain work of poetry. The sift still sometimes makes her dizzy. Her debut poetry collection, Crossing the Sky Bridge was published by Larkspur Press.
Reason for signing up:
I love the daily practice and discipline.
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Poems:
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June 09, 2018
What Endures
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June 10, 2018
With Child
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June 11, 2018
Prodigal Son's Sister
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June 12, 2018
Annunciation
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June 13, 2018
Cows in the Field
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June 14, 2018
Saxon
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June 16, 2018
Breakdown
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June 17, 2018
Theatre in the Round
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June 18, 2018
Blood
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June 19, 2018
Completion
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June 21, 2018
Small Gestures
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June 22, 2018
The Tin Man
Sunday, April 29, 2018 @ 11:41pm
Reason for signing up:
This is another way to motivate me to write a poem a day for six months.
Saturday, May 26, 2018 @ 4:08pm
Friday, May 11, 2018 @ 5:31pm
Bio:
Wife. Mother. Grandmother. Writer. Reader. Traveler.
Reason for signing up:
The mind says no but the heart says yes.
Sunday, May 27, 2018 @ 6:53pm
Bio:
Pauletta Hansel is author of six poetry collections, including Palindrome (Dos Madres Press, 2017), winner of the 2017 Weatherford Award for best Appalachian poetry book. Pauletta was Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate from April 2016 through March 2018. Her first LexPoMo was 2013.
Reason for signing up:
Because it is almost June, and that's what I do in June!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
After
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June 03, 2018
The Town
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June 05, 2018
Outside Her Door
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June 07, 2018
Motherhood
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June 08, 2018
Screens
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June 09, 2018
Sandwich Generation
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June 11, 2018
Self Portrait as a Cockscomb
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June 12, 2018
Talking with the Dead (a Cento)
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June 20, 2018
"as we stand here, a five-year-old woke up in a cage"
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June 21, 2018
Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Collection of Objects
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June 22, 2018
Whatever Is Not Enough
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June 23, 2018
My Name
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June 25, 2018
Self Portrait as a Rock
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June 27, 2018
washing the wounded seed
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June 28, 2018
Two Photographs
Sunday, May 20, 2018 @ 10:56am
Bio:
I may get a lot of things wrong, but at least I'm still me. This year is a celebration of that.
Reason for signing up:
Poetry is how I relate to the world, so I try to write some every day. Lexpomo is great for motivation.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Hello June
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June 02, 2018
Through the Storm
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June 03, 2018
Trust Issues
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June 04, 2018
Stargazer Without a Star
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June 05, 2018
Hiraeth
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June 06, 2018
Stay Away From Her. She's Toxic.
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June 07, 2018
Your Destiny Is Calling
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June 08, 2018
Bellafly
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June 09, 2018
Thérèse
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June 10, 2018
A Secret About Love
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June 11, 2018
Tragedy of the Wasp
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June 12, 2018
Us
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June 13, 2018
Comfortable
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June 14, 2018
Drafts
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June 15, 2018
Circadian
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June 16, 2018
Funny Thing Happened Just Before Vacation
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June 17, 2018
52!
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June 18, 2018
Venus
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June 19, 2018
Away From You
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June 20, 2018
Pine Beach
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June 21, 2018
Know the Battle You Fight
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June 22, 2018
When Facing Adversity
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June 23, 2018
Sunrise
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June 24, 2018
That Wasn't Being Careful, Love
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June 25, 2018
All I Wanted was a Double Cheeseburger
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June 26, 2018
Uncomfortable
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June 27, 2018
Define Stupid
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June 28, 2018
Kamikaze Girl
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June 29, 2018
Happened Upon Your Name
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June 30, 2018
Searching For Our Spark
Thursday, May 17, 2018 @ 8:28am
Bio:
Philip resides in Lexington with his beloved wife and children. He enjoys writing and reflecting on what it means to truly live and love.
Reason for signing up:
If writing is personal then poetry is intimate. Its scary to share this element of thought life; Lexpomo creates an accepting environment to share our unique views on life with others.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Time
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June 02, 2018
Text not Sent
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June 03, 2018
Broken
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June 04, 2018
Unborn Child
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June 05, 2018
Love is a Journey
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June 06, 2018
Last Thought
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June 07, 2018
Mountains
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June 08, 2018
Entropy
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June 09, 2018
Walk Home
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June 10, 2018
Jackson County
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June 11, 2018
Grace
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June 12, 2018
One Hundred Mirrors
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June 13, 2018
Bourbon county
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June 14, 2018
Sapling
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June 15, 2018
Wren
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June 17, 2018
My Fathers Steps
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June 21, 2018
Valentine Tragedy
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June 23, 2018
Poetry Scares Me
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June 27, 2018
Dandelion
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 10:30am
Bio:
Currently Writing a five part play about mass hallucinations. Past works include a series of short novellas set during the collapse of a small town in rural Kentucky, a modern re telling of the book of Job in which Donald Glover is both God and Job and a few pieces of Appalachian Papaw poetry.
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Poems:
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June 02, 2018
Father Stitch
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June 03, 2018
Circumstance
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June 04, 2018
The Green Ribbon
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June 05, 2018
Middle Class Values
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June 06, 2018
Phenomenal.
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June 07, 2018
Spit
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June 09, 2018
White Doe is waitlisted at Barnard
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June 10, 2018
Have you ever been to the Desert ?
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June 19, 2018
Float
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June 21, 2018
Quarry Lake
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 4:25pm
Bio:
Rayny Palmer is alive.
Reason for signing up:
Because it is the thing to do.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 @ 3:25pm
Bio:
Rebecca Cavendish Taulbee is not a crook.
Reason for signing up:
It's becoming a habit.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 @ 8:26pm
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because I felt like it was time to get more involved in the writing community. I chose to do it through Lexpomo specifically, because two mentor writers-whom I deeply respect-recommended it.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 8:07pm
Thursday, May 17, 2018 @ 11:38pm
Bio:
I am a musician and only recently have I decided to embark on this poetic journey, for therapeutic purposes and as a creative outlet. I’ve had so many feelings that I have put into my pieces and I hope that you can feel them in a very similar fashion.
Reason for signing up:
I was halfway forced to sign up by a friend who has read my writing, but I also really appreciate the idea of critique and constructive criticism since I am a new writer!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Vagabond
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June 02, 2018
The Devil’s Grin
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June 03, 2018
Translucent
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June 04, 2018
Brass bars
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June 05, 2018
Mass
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June 06, 2018
Psychosis
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June 07, 2018
Gild
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June 08, 2018
Mudkip
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June 09, 2018
Clarity
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June 10, 2018
Photosynthesis
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June 11, 2018
Dog Brain
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June 12, 2018
Psycho analyst
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June 13, 2018
Crying wolf
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June 14, 2018
Mirrored vision
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June 15, 2018
Thoughts on death and over-compensation
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June 16, 2018
This Dad Needs a Beer
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June 17, 2018
untitled
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June 18, 2018
Lying Stagnant
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June 19, 2018
4 4 4 4
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June 20, 2018
Urgency
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June 21, 2018
Patience
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June 22, 2018
Indifference
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June 23, 2018
Dog sheets
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June 24, 2018
Plethora
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June 25, 2018
The Chip King: Dorito Dude
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June 26, 2018
Pool days
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June 27, 2018
Thoughts on Growth
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June 28, 2018
Pete
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June 29, 2018
Isolated Repetition
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June 30, 2018
Green Thumb
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July 01, 2018
Continuation
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 @ 7:29pm
Friday, June 1, 2018 @ 6:14pm
Bio:
Rona Roberts, a writer and researcher based in Lexington, Kentucky, works with local, state, and national groups to find things out, figure things out and work things out. She also co-hosts a weekly community radio show, speaks and writes about Kentucky's farms, farmers and foodways.
Reason for signing up:
Practice, fellowship and fun.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Fresh June
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June 02, 2018
June Itself
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June 03, 2018
G
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June 04, 2018
H
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June 05, 2018
Fade
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June 06, 2018
White Woman's Lament
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June 07, 2018
Rescue by Haiku
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June 08, 2018
How I Want Things To Be
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June 09, 2018
Unexpected Travel
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June 10, 2018
Grand
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June 11, 2018
Peace At the Beginning
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June 12, 2018
For the New One
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June 13, 2018
Current Standards
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June 14, 2018
Anticipating
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June 15, 2018
Petalia
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June 16, 2018
One Pure Note
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June 17, 2018
Instead
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June 18, 2018
Change of Address
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June 19, 2018
The Work That Waits
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June 20, 2018
In the Waiting Room
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June 21, 2018
P
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June 22, 2018
Send More Words
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June 23, 2018
Blondies
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June 24, 2018
You have a tender streak
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June 25, 2018
The One WIth Pockets
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June 26, 2018
For A While Longer
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June 27, 2018
C
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June 28, 2018
Miles to Go
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June 29, 2018
In the Absence of Comfort
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June 30, 2018
Small
Sunday, June 10, 2018 @ 11:01am
Bio:
Sabne Raznik is from Eastern Kentucky and has published online as well as in the US and Ireland. She founded and coedits the ezine "AvantAppal(achia)" and coedits "North/South Appalachia". She has published three full-length collections "Following Hope", "Linger To Look", and "Rabbit Hole" as well as a homemade chapbook called "Marrow" for the benefit of childhood cancer research via St. Jude's Hospital. She has been an actor in Community Theatre and won awards as a visual artist.
Reason for signing up:
Continuing ongoing projects and likes the challenge.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 6:23pm
Bio:
Sabne Raznik is an internationally published poet and an award-winning artist who occasionally acts in Community Theatre. She founded and serves as the Poetry and Art Editor of AvantAppal(achia) e-zine. She has three full-length collections: “Following Hope” (Xlibris, 2007), “Linger to Look” (Sabne Raznik/Createspace, 2015), and now “Rabbit Hole” (Sabne Raznik/Createspace, 2017). She also wrote and hand produced “Marrow” (Sabne Raznik, 2013), a little art book, to benefit St. Jude’s Research Hospital. She currently paints in watercolour, acrylics, and digital, and her artistic style is different with each medium. She lives in Kentucky, USA with her puppy candidate Aida.
http://sabneraznik.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/sabneraznik
http://www.facebook.com/sabneraznik
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6190999.Sabne_Raznik
http://poetryzoo.com/author/sabneraznik
https://soundcloud.com/sabne-raznik
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabneraznik
http://instagram.com/sabneraznik
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/sabne-raznik.html?tab=artworkgalleries
http://www.avantappalachia.com
Reason for signing up:
I enjoyed it last year and thought I would try again this year. I am also doing The Gauntlet unofficially and working on my 4th full-length collection. This will help keep the words flowing.
Thursday, May 17, 2018 @ 7:55pm
Bio:
Samantha Ratcliffe is an Appalachian poet and musician under the name of Fields May.
Reason for signing up:
I have to sign up. I have a lot of words and this makes me feel like they matter.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 11:10am
Reason for signing up:
I think this will be my third LexPoMo. I'm signing up again because I love to write and I don't do it nearly enough. I hope this challenge will keep me accountable to park my bottom and get some words out of my head and onto paper.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 2:22pm
Reason for signing up:
year 5 is a lucky number
Saturday, June 9, 2018 @ 2:12am
Saturday, June 9, 2018 @ 9:17am
Bio:
Shaun Turner writes and teaches in central Kentucky. Check out his published work at http://shaunturnerwrites.com
Reason for signing up:
To read and share poetry with fellow writers and poets!
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Poems:
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June 09, 2018
I ask my X-ray technician if they see people as skeletons
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June 10, 2018
Impenetrable--
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June 11, 2018
Appalachian Kaddish 7
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June 15, 2018
Me & My Old Crow
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June 17, 2018
untitled
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June 18, 2018
Trying Not to Write Roadkill
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June 19, 2018
Underneath, Ants
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June 20, 2018
Roadkill Stomping & Roadkill Scolding
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June 21, 2018
I Have Become a Denatured Thing
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June 22, 2018
untitled
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June 23, 2018
I Don't Know What Is In Your Heart
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June 24, 2018
untitled
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June 25, 2018
Some Days The Walls Close In
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June 26, 2018
Victual Pets
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June 27, 2018
Appalachian Kaddish 9
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June 28, 2018
Horoscope for Virgo
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June 29, 2018
Six-and-Three-Quarters Ways of Looking at Roadkill
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July 01, 2018
It was the day after
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 3:36pm
Bio:
Shawn works in branding & design at Mediocre Creative, an agency on the north side of town.
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Poems:
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June 07, 2018
haiku 07
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June 08, 2018
haiku 08
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June 09, 2018
haiku 09
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June 10, 2018
haiku 10
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June 11, 2018
haiku 11
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June 12, 2018
haiku 12
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June 13, 2018
haiku 13
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June 14, 2018
haiku 14
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June 15, 2018
haiku 15
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June 16, 2018
haiku 16
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June 18, 2018
haiku 18
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June 19, 2018
haiku 19
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June 20, 2018
haiku 20
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June 21, 2018
haiku 21
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June 22, 2018
haiku 22
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June 23, 2018
haiku 23
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June 25, 2018
haiku 25
Friday, June 1, 2018 @ 6:30am
Thursday, June 7, 2018 @ 7:02pm
Reason for signing up:
I have several friends in the group and they made it sound amazing! I need this!
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 3:16pm
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 4:34pm
Bio:
Stephanie Mojica, a widely published former journalist who has interviewed Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, currently copyedits, proofreads, and writes – mostly non-fiction – for numerous websites and publications. Her non-fiction publication history includes “The Philadelphia Inquirer”, “The Virginian-Pilot”, “Realty411”, “Louisville Magazine”, “Today’s Woman”, and “The Courier-Journal”. Stephanie’s published poetry credits include “Open Minds Quarterly”, “The Stray Branch”, “Mad Swirl”, “Calliope Nerve”, and “The Mainichi Daily News”. Stephanie is a writing mentor and teacher through the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, and teaches in other organizations including the Fayette County Mental Health Court.
Reason for signing up:
I participated two years ago and it helped me write and revise poems.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 @ 11:50am
Bio:
This is Steve's third year participating in Lexpomo. He's hoping for the charm.
Reason for signing up:
To read some great poems and maybe write one.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
No plan for this year?
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June 04, 2018
Can't take it anymore?
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June 05, 2018
Why bother?
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June 06, 2018
Is it over?
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June 07, 2018
Surprise attack?
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June 08, 2018
Left-handed insult?
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June 11, 2018
Art thou?
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June 13, 2018
Peace in the Valley?
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June 14, 2018
Maybe not?
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June 18, 2018
Experts in the field?
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June 19, 2018
O, the children?
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June 20, 2018
Selective Outrage?
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June 21, 2018
Jerk?
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June 27, 2018
Beautiful Day?
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June 29, 2018
The End?
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 @ 5:59am
Bio:
Mother and American Sign Language Interpreter
Reason for signing up:
To borrow from John Muir:
The poems are calling
& I must write
& I will write while I can,
studying incessantly
Saturday, May 26, 2018 @ 9:23pm
Saturday, May 26, 2018 @ 10:52pm
Bio:
Lafayette High School graduate, cosmetology student and barista
Saturday, May 26, 2018 @ 11:48am
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
First Morning
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June 02, 2018
Second Night
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June 03, 2018
Third Afternoon
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June 04, 2018
On Going Home Again
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June 07, 2018
More Like Wolf and Wild Oregano
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June 12, 2018
Baby, You Can Drive Your Car
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June 13, 2018
Eve Wins Baking Championship with Her Organic Fruit Tarts
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June 19, 2018
Wild, Lately
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June 24, 2018
Threnody for the Lost
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 @ 11:47pm
Bio:
Sylvia Collings is Lemon Star Mag's Internship Coordinator, a former Poetry Gauntlet participate and a mom of 5 cats and a dog.
Reason for signing up:
I would like to get back into the habit of writing poetry often.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 8:04pm
Bio:
Currently stationed at Keesler Air Force Base for technical training as a weather forecaster, still fond of Kentucky and Lexington no matter the distance.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because I wanted to continue to improve my writing and stay in touch with this writing community.
Sunday, June 3, 2018 @ 9:12pm
Bio:
Tabitha teaches tarot haiku and tea leaf reading parties. She reads tea at the Winter Wizarding Waltz as Professor Trelawney and is the author of Creative Divination: Read Tea Leaves and Develop your Personal Code.
Reason for signing up:
Amy Camuglia.
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Poems:
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June 03, 2018
No need to confuse approval and love anymore
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June 04, 2018
Made of Tin
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June 05, 2018
Maddie wanted to see a spider this summer: A haiku
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June 06, 2018
Multiple Choice
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June 07, 2018
Enough
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June 08, 2018
Relationships with ghosts
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June 08, 2018
untitled
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June 09, 2018
Apocalypta in Motion
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June 10, 2018
Resentments: No. 1
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June 11, 2018
Fuel
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June 12, 2018
Classes I Want to Take at PlayThink: A Found Poem
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June 13, 2018
Tea Reading Party
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June 18, 2018
Classes I actually took at PlayThink
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June 19, 2018
Resistance
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June 20, 2018
Flow
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June 21, 2018
Meet in the Middle
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June 22, 2018
Before the Flowcase
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June 24, 2018
Leave No Trace
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June 28, 2018
The Trelawney Look
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 7:17am
Sunday, May 6, 2018 @ 10:30pm
Bio:
Tania has a husband, a son, a dog, and an alarming number of cats. Her housekeeping is lousy but she hopes people remember her for wanting to help and make a difference for others. She enjoys writing and associating with creative people and feels inspired by them.
Reason for signing up:
To stay inspired and motivated to create.
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Poems:
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June 14, 2018
Dissolution
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June 15, 2018
For Jay
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June 16, 2018
Missing a friend
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June 17, 2018
Retribution
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June 18, 2018
The secret is...
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June 19, 2018
Topography
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June 22, 2018
Best by date
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June 23, 2018
Sally Mann, this is no Candy Cigarette
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June 25, 2018
dissociative principle
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June 29, 2018
Fishing with Doug
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June 30, 2018
Summer Wedding
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 11:10pm
Bio:
Ryan Keinath is an abstract artist and photographer based out of Lexington, Ky.
He typically explores the realms of Abstract Expressionism, he uses both digital and film cameras for his various endeavors. His goal is to produce post conventional and thought provoking works of art while conveying an emotional expression to the viewer.
Reason for signing up:
Expression of mine
On pixelated paper
With digital ink
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Poems:
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June 01, 2018
Utile Dulci
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June 02, 2018
Sanities Collapse Before A Horse Of Turin
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June 03, 2018
The Realities of Shallow Water
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June 04, 2018
Spectral Tone Palettes Of Synesthesia
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June 05, 2018
Melancholias Melody On Sunburnt Lips
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June 06, 2018
Occult Ritual: And the Moth Carried A Red Elks Skull
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June 07, 2018
Mechanized Whispers
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June 08, 2018
In Temples of Our Dying Sun (The End of God)
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June 09, 2018
Quicksand In The Lungs
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June 10, 2018
La Peste
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June 11, 2018
Sisyphus Discovers Entropy
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June 12, 2018
Cadence of Calculus
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June 13, 2018
Frequency Modulation Synthesis of Psilocybin
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June 14, 2018
Reminisce, Cerulean L’Aquarelle Sennelier
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June 15, 2018
A Ceremony of Leeches
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June 16, 2018
The Sacrifice of Honey Upon Ashen Altars
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June 17, 2018
Soothsayers, Shrines Shall Fall
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June 18, 2018
Replicant Architecture of Emotional Circuitry
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June 19, 2018
Repetitive Sedative, La Nouvelle Vague
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June 20, 2018
Camera Obscura: Memphis Group Breakfast at The Bauhaus
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June 21, 2018
Primary Composition: étude de trois
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June 22, 2018
Indistinct Voices
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June 23, 2018
With Shadows
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June 24, 2018
A Series of Closed Loops
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June 25, 2018
Inner dimensional Landscape
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June 26, 2018
Dried Flowers 3:25 Am
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June 27, 2018
disintegration in bloom
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June 28, 2018
Violet Visions
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June 29, 2018
Geometric Nude .01
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June 30, 2018
Critique of Continuity: Kino-Eye
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 @ 11:57pm
Bio:
just another punk aging out of relevance.
Reason for signing up:
i am a show-off.
Friday, May 4, 2018 @ 5:14pm
Bio:
Tina Parker is trying to bring order to her new poems about women and mental illness. She hopes to write some new poems that will properly distract her.
Reason for signing up:
During LexPoMo, the mic is adjusted just right and the sounds are sublime.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 12:34pm
Bio:
t.m. thomson’s work has most recently appeared in bonfire(s) and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. Three of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards: “Seahorse and Moon” in 2005, “I Walked Out in January” in 2016, and “Strum and Lull” in 2018. She has co-authored Frame and Mount the Sky, a chapbook of ekphrastic poetry (2017); her chapbook Strum and Lull placed in Golden Walkman’s 2017 chapbook competition; and her chapbook The Profusion is due out in January of 2019.
Friday, May 25, 2018 @ 5:00pm
Bio:
grrrr. growl. urggh.
Reason for signing up:
C.McC is LITERALLY standing over me with figurative brass knuckles gleaming and i think he means me harm....
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Poems:
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June 02, 2018
psalm for an under-excavated hum
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June 03, 2018
perch me
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June 04, 2018
breastmeat
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June 05, 2018
1369 (pts 6, 7, 8)
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June 06, 2018
dirt fills out an application
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June 07, 2018
how to repair a good book's binding
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June 08, 2018
parts unknown (for a.b.)
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June 09, 2018
myth-theory-us
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June 12, 2018
detail from AKA: A Literary Mob Boss Buys Mama A House
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June 13, 2018
us us-people
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June 14, 2018
Urban Flora With A Flute Loop
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June 15, 2018
after 3 long years our antagonist finally tips her barista (and the trumpets blare!)
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June 17, 2018
"Tis I, Daedalus, Thine Loving, Adopting Father. Now, Kneel.”
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June 18, 2018
ballad of a midnight muezzin
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June 20, 2018
blind nil
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June 30, 2018
"watch me pull a rabbit outta this hat" - bullwinkle
Monday, June 4, 2018 @ 8:36am
Bio:
Vickie has been teaching middle school language arts for 27 years. She currently resides in Mt. Sterling Kentucky with her three cats.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up for the challenge of writing a poem a day and to ensure I will write every morning before starting the day!
Sunday, April 29, 2018 @ 9:52am
Bio:
Flowers in her hair. Stars in her heart. Her smile, just for Him.
Reason for signing up:
Stumbled upon.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 @ 6:42pm