LexPoMo Participants

the bluegrass warbler

Sunday, June 2, 2019 @ 10:45am

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Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 8:25pm

Website:

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Poems:
June 02, 2019 granny
June 04, 2019 untitled
June 09, 2019 haiku
June 10, 2019 Black code (or, stop telling all our business)
June 25, 2019 Wairua

A. E. Bryant

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 @ 11:12am

Bio:

A. E. has a background primarily in theatre, photography, and painting. She has used these skills to bring light to the dark places, starting with herself. Her faith partnered with art has given her courage fight for freedom and truth.

Reason for signing up:

I am in pursuit of my own story. Discovering light in the dark places and in search for the beauty midst chaos. Because words to me are like a sieve. Ideas being processed into words, bringing new eyes and balm to the unseen places within.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 The Mile Marked Forever
June 02, 2019 Tonight’s Swing
June 03, 2019 Loss
June 05, 2019 Is there Something in Nothing?
June 06, 2019 A Storm’s Dawn
June 07, 2019 Repeating Offender
June 08, 2019 You Found Me
June 10, 2019 Do You Remember?
June 11, 2019 Ever Changing Time
June 12, 2019 Two
June 14, 2019 The Worth of a Smile
June 24, 2019 More Than A Feeling
June 25, 2019 Birth
June 26, 2019 Process
June 29, 2019 Strength for Tomorrow
June 29, 2019 Strength for Tomorrow

Andrea Lawler

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 4:12pm

Poems:
June 01, 2019 the fire we share
June 02, 2019 Edge of Survival
June 03, 2019 Truth #22
June 05, 2019 To Breathe
June 06, 2019 hope
June 08, 2019 A Different Kind of Hope
June 09, 2019 drowning
June 10, 2019 intuition
June 12, 2019 the loneliest moment of the day
June 18, 2019 what if?
June 23, 2019 Woman of the House
June 27, 2019 the future

A. A. Kate

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 8:16am

Bio:

someone who has a ton of animals and lives on a mini farm in a neighborhood

Reason for signing up:

because poems ...

Poems:
June 08, 2019 burnt
June 13, 2019 flattery?
June 14, 2019 loneliness
June 16, 2019 drip drip drip
June 17, 2019 sea fish
June 20, 2019 blue
June 23, 2019 swallowing mixed emotions
June 25, 2019 rolling water
June 30, 2019 giving up on random thoughts

A.R. Turner

Monday, May 20, 2019 @ 1:23pm

Abra McCurry

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 @ 7:37am

Bio:

Abra McCurry is a second grader who loves kittens and karate and ballet. Kroger is her arch nemesis.

Reason for signing up:

Cause my daddy does it.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 How To Get Back What You Have Lost
June 02, 2019 Cats Cats Cats!
June 03, 2019 Lightning Strike
June 04, 2019 Dancing And Playing In The Rain.
June 05, 2019 Time
June 06, 2019 The Heart
June 08, 2019 Alone in the dark
June 10, 2019 Shine Bright My Star
June 17, 2019 Blank
June 18, 2019 Camping
June 19, 2019 Time glass

Vincent Houp

Saturday, May 4, 2019 @ 2:23pm

Aiden Crawley

Monday, May 20, 2019 @ 8:41pm

Bio:

Aiden Crawley is a 17 year old artist who has possessed a passion for writing since a young age. Only finding an escape in books, he has always found words as an art form.

Reason for signing up:

My friends, as well as my teacher, and I are all greatly excited to participate together and talk about it.

Website:

instagram.com/denzo.io

Amanda Crum

Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 7:59pm

Bio:

Amanda Crum is a writer and artist whose work can be found in publications such as Eastern Iowa Review and Barren Magazine, as well as in several anthologies. Her first chapbook of horror poetry, The Madness In Our Marrow, made the shortlist for a Bram Stoker Award nomination in 2015.

Reason for signing up:

I would love to be more involved in the local poetry scene.

Website:

amandacrumwrites.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/the-journey-begins

Poems:
June 01, 2019 The Persistent Memory Of June
June 02, 2019 Lollybaby
June 03, 2019 Dust Bowl Sacrifice
June 04, 2019 We Riot After Dark
June 05, 2019 Screen Door
June 06, 2019 Doorway
June 07, 2019 Between The Rings
June 08, 2019 Graffiti
June 09, 2019 What Goes On In Other Rooms
June 10, 2019 What They Will Become
June 11, 2019 Specters
June 12, 2019 Incision
June 13, 2019 In The Heather
June 16, 2019 A Purloined Heart
June 29, 2019 Measurements

Amanda Holt

Monday, May 13, 2019 @ 5:05pm

Bio:

Amanda Holt is a High School English Teacher at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, KY. She has been writing poems since she was 5.

Reason for signing up:

For the camaraderie and accountability and to continue the tradition.

Poems:
June 05, 2019 A Dragonfly Mistakes My Blue Buick for a Pond
June 07, 2019 To a Friend, on Being Ghosted
June 13, 2019 A Song to Die To
June 19, 2019 On a Train from Bordeaux to Paris, I Imagine Losing You
June 30, 2019 Crossing into France

Amanda

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 2:21am

Bio:

Equal parts fragile flower and dandelion..sustained by kindness and your mom jokes.

Reason for signing up:

I am looking for motivation to write consistently again.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Empty Calories
June 02, 2019 Punk Rock
June 03, 2019 Fuck off! (I silently scream)
June 04, 2019 Excuses
June 05, 2019 Fool’s Gold
June 06, 2019 Trite
June 07, 2019 Jeans
June 08, 2019 Self Preservation
June 09, 2019 Grief
June 10, 2019 Bar Bathroom Wisdom
June 11, 2019 Response to Someone Getting to Know Me
June 12, 2019 Always Waiting
June 14, 2019 The Hills
June 15, 2019 Fish in the Sea
June 16, 2019 Sweetness
June 17, 2019 Bored
June 19, 2019 Resting Spot
June 21, 2019 Missing
June 22, 2019 Reasons
June 25, 2019 Serpentine
June 27, 2019 Old Habits Die Hard
June 28, 2019 Summertime
June 30, 2019 Back to Home

Amanda Corbin

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 8:40pm

Bio:

Amanda Kelley Corbin holds an MFA in fiction from UK. Her work has appeared in Inscape, Kentucky Monthly, JMWW, Eunoia Review, Fried Chicken and Coffee, American Book Review, Madcap Review, and four LexPoMo anthologies. She lives in Lexington with her family.

Reason for signing up:

To beat 11 this year!

Amy Camuglia

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 9:46am

Bio:

...a folk poet, runnin around the planet with kindred hooligans

Reason for signing up:

i love the kinship and variety of poetry produced

Poems:
June 01, 2019 derby day
June 02, 2019 annie rose
June 03, 2019 dad said “.... did you know if you feed a bird triscuits, it’s stomach will explode
June 04, 2019 jerry’s barn
June 05, 2019 untitled

Amy Cunningham

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 @ 7:45pm

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Eating Older
June 03, 2019 Secret Headquarters: Day 63
June 06, 2019 Social Obligation
June 08, 2019 I Love You (after Neruda)
June 11, 2019 Belief!
June 12, 2019 The Exterminator’s Wife
June 14, 2019 On the Day There Was No Good News
June 17, 2019 He’s a Toledo Native
June 18, 2019 Road Trip | Lebanese Bakery
June 19, 2019 I Was Just Being Heart-Land
June 20, 2019 When You are No Longer Yourself
June 21, 2019 Dead on Arrival
June 22, 2019 Let’s Be Brave
June 23, 2019 I Get a Nose of Ghostly Solvent
June 24, 2019 Innocence
June 25, 2019 Idiot in the Produce Section
June 26, 2019 Family of Five Scooby Dooby Doo
June 27, 2019 Say You Move Out of Town
June 28, 2019 Book Shelf
June 29, 2019 They Think You Are a Ball of Yarn
June 30, 2019 A Couple of Ways to Forget Yourself

Amy Le Ann Richardson

Sunday, May 12, 2019 @ 1:50pm

Bio:

Amy Richardson was born and raised in Morehead, KY. She grew up running through the hills with her cousins and walking barefoot through her parents’ garden letting her imagination run wild. Her love of stories led her to earn her Bachelor’s Degree in English from Morehead State University and her Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Spalding University. She currently owns/runs and organic farm in Carter County where she homeschools her two kids.

Reason for signing up:

I am challenging myself to write more.

Website:

chickenhousestudio.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Heritage
June 02, 2019 Summer Loving
June 03, 2019 Untamed Souls
June 04, 2019 Bygones
June 05, 2019 For Hard Times
June 06, 2019 Gospel
June 07, 2019 Weathered
June 08, 2019 Ripple
June 09, 2019 Kindred
June 10, 2019 Extinct
June 11, 2019 Marrow
June 12, 2019 Wayward
June 13, 2019 Identity
June 14, 2019 Birthright
June 15, 2019 Bioblitz
June 16, 2019 Backroads
June 17, 2019 Pining
June 18, 2019 Survival
June 19, 2019 Salve
June 20, 2019 Privilege
June 21, 2019 Rhythm
June 22, 2019 Anticipation
June 23, 2019 Sanctuary
June 24, 2019 We Return
June 25, 2019 Disconnected
June 26, 2019 Lacuna
June 27, 2019 Time-worn
June 28, 2019 Juncture
June 29, 2019 Flare
June 30, 2019 Reverence

Andrew Depew

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 10:14am

Andrew Wilson

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 @ 7:46am

Bio:

Native Kentuckian.
Eternal Oregonian.
Luckiest Man Alive.

Reason for signing up:

Fame and fortune...

Website:

awilsonproperty.com

Poems:
June 02, 2019 far far away
June 04, 2019 Coast to Coast
June 23, 2019 This Could Have Been an Email

Anna Walsh

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 8:51pm

Bio:

Anna is a teacher who loves to get lost in the pages of a good book. She is working on becoming the kind of writer who actually writes (instead of a writer who keeps everything in her head).

Reason for signing up:

This is a leap of faith for me. All of my poetry has stayed safely within the pages of my journals, never seeing the light of day. I'm intimidated by joining a group of experienced poets, but some friends encouraged me to give it a try.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Anxiety
June 03, 2019 The Sycamore on My Way to Work
June 04, 2019 When Your Car Battery Dies at Starbucks
June 05, 2019 I Spy
June 06, 2019 Retiree
June 07, 2019 Mom Guilt
June 08, 2019 Heaven in the Bluegrass
June 09, 2019 Man in a Donut Shop
June 11, 2019 Unrequited Love
June 12, 2019 The Tantrum
June 13, 2019 Jealousy
June 26, 2019 (Unhappy) Caterpillar
June 27, 2019 Speedos and a Baseball Bat
June 28, 2019 Dueling C.D.s
June 29, 2019 County Fair
June 30, 2019 An Experiment

Anne Hayden

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 @ 10:20am

Bio:

Anne Hayden teaches classical piano to children. She also coaches for theatre auditions.
She is a short story fiction writer.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 My Little Boat
June 02, 2019 About Mary Boone
June 04, 2019 Downsizing
June 06, 2019 The Antique Shop
June 09, 2019 Thoughts
June 12, 2019 Traveling Blooms
June 18, 2019 MOON
June 22, 2019 unwelcome company
June 28, 2019 For Nedjma
June 30, 2019 BAD DECISION

Arianna McCurry

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 2:19am

Bio:

16 and ready to rumble

Reason for signing up:

because my mom reminded me that it's a lot closer to june than i think it is

Poems:
June 02, 2019 ex-boyfriends who also double as spider-friends
June 03, 2019 spider-friend meets bee
June 04, 2019 lessons on how to unlove
June 05, 2019 untitled + 5 recommended songs
June 06, 2019 Eve 2.0
June 16, 2019 a wish a day
June 27, 2019 prose poem from gsa 2019

Ashley Taylor

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 11:46pm

Bio:

Ashley Taylor is currently pursuing her MFA in Writing Poetry at Spalding University. She holds a MA in English from the University of Louisville (where she very much loved and very much misses facilitating the LGBTQ Writing Group. And is also currently considering an online queer poets collective so holla if you’re interested). She is also the founder and curator of the reading series River City Revue in Louisville.

Reason for signing up:

Chris is like really good at social media.

Website:

ashleytaylorpoet.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 June 1
June 02, 2019 June 2
June 03, 2019 June 3
June 04, 2019 June 4
June 05, 2019 June 5
June 16, 2019 June 16
June 18, 2019 June 18, Morning After the Strawberry Moon

Ashley Taylor

Sunday, May 26, 2019 @ 7:20pm

Bio:

Ashley Taylor is a special education teacher from Hindman, Kentucky. Her work has previously appeared in Hazard Community and Technical College’s literary magazine, Kudzu, and Full: An Anthology of Moon Poems. She was the student editor of Kudzu in 2007, and literally needed a Xanax to get up and speak in front of people about it. She has since evolved into a semi-competent public speaker.

Reason for signing up:

She gets considerably lazy on summer break and hopes that LexPoMo will lend her some motivation.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Dick
June 02, 2019 You Can’t Kill Somebody With A Hammer
June 03, 2019 Mixed Signals
June 04, 2019 Emotionally Unavailable Toxic Guy
June 05, 2019 Odds
June 15, 2019 I Bought A Wrestling T-Shirt For You
June 24, 2019 Proof That I Did More Than Exist
June 29, 2019 Road Work Ahead

atmospherique

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 @ 8:51pm

Bio:

pisces. contains: misery, hope, flowers, star wars

Reason for signing up:

i have a lot of emotions, and it'd be nice if they mean something

Website:

instagram.com/atmo_spherique

Poems:
June 01, 2019 $6.56 at McDonalds
June 02, 2019 the dog
June 03, 2019 Petit Jean, June 19th
June 04, 2019 イメージ1(アキラ)
June 05, 2019 flavor/crunch
June 06, 2019 Gilgamesh On (or "crying out pieces of yourself after TAZ: Balance")
June 07, 2019 vigilante
June 08, 2019 debating with Kongming
June 09, 2019 Pain in the
June 10, 2019 イメージ2(蟲師・エピソード2)
June 11, 2019 overwhelmingness
June 12, 2019 admiring the moon in the drive-thru
June 13, 2019 meme n to mori
June 14, 2019 untitled
June 15, 2019 untitled
June 16, 2019 Toponym (Dirke and the Bull)
June 17, 2019 untitled
June 18, 2019 another day about being in a car
June 19, 2019 Palindromeda
June 20, 2019 bad animals
June 22, 2019 a bit about Ivan Tsarevich's wolf
June 23, 2019 a bit about Koschej’s hare
June 24, 2019 What a shame
June 25, 2019 don't know much about cholera
June 30, 2019 the only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday

Austin Green

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 10:41pm

Bio:

I'm an English major at the University of Pikeville. I've been writing for several years but have only recently put a lot of emphasis on poetry.

Reason for signing up:

I first heard about the event when I presented a paper at the KPA conference this past March and thought it sounded fun. I also like any opportunity to get some helpful feedback on my writing.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Sunday Morning on Rockhouse
June 02, 2019 Untitled Ekphrasis
June 03, 2019 Mother
June 04, 2019 Money
June 19, 2019 Thunderstorm

Austin Rathbone

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 10:45am

Bio:

The boy with the wack sleep schedule.

Reason for signing up:

Every year I'm just trying to write one more word than I did the previous year.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Relaxation for Dummies
June 02, 2019 Krautrock
June 03, 2019 Pectin
June 04, 2019 Defcon Atrophy
June 05, 2019 Parasitic Distractions
June 06, 2019 Silver Linings of Domestic Life
June 07, 2019 An Ode to the '01-02 Kings
June 09, 2019 Silver Linings of Domestic Life #2
June 11, 2019 One-Sided Argument
June 17, 2019 Church League
June 18, 2019 Perk #382

Barefooted Brave Girl

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 7:46pm

Bio:

Spending an incredible amount of time writing within the public school system. Writing for oneself is quite a refreshing viewpoint.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Parasi(gh)te
June 02, 2019 Dirty Truths
June 03, 2019 Handle Scandal
June 04, 2019 Out of Line
June 05, 2019 Rules of the Narc
June 06, 2019 Fruit Rot
June 07, 2019 Untitled Argument
June 08, 2019 Happiness Theft
June 09, 2019 Sick Satisfaction
June 10, 2019 Band Bond Broken
June 11, 2019 No. 2 No More
June 12, 2019 Mr. Whirlpool
June 13, 2019 Dryer Sheet
June 14, 2019 Unable to answer with information given
June 15, 2019 It's not a tie
June 16, 2019 Out before it's Over
June 17, 2019 Smudges for Someone
June 18, 2019 Body parts Beaten
June 19, 2019 Egg
June 20, 2019 “Homemade”
June 21, 2019 Hammer
June 22, 2019 Lightbulb
June 23, 2019 Decision Monsters
June 24, 2019 Wishful Doings
June 25, 2019 Plate Presentation
June 26, 2019 Ignoring the Invaluable
June 27, 2019 Prime time Problems
June 28, 2019 Pause
June 29, 2019 Working Hands
June 30, 2019 thoughtless

Beatrice Underwood-Sweet

Thursday, May 16, 2019 @ 10:30pm

Bio:

Beatrice is a teacher, a learner, a reader, a writer. She is and always will be a Kentuckian at heart, no matter where she lives. (Currently Missouri.)

Reason for signing up:

I participated in LexPoMo the first 5 years, then missed last year and I missed the community. The writing community in Lexington is amazing, and I love being a part of that. There's nothing like it anywhere else I've lived, and Lexington's home.

Poems:
June 26, 2019 For Valeria and Oscar
June 28, 2019 The Vine that Ate the South
June 29, 2019 Body
June 30, 2019 Math

Bernard Deville

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 @ 5:19am

Bio:

Bernie teaches middle school English and History at Providence Montessori Middle School.

Reason for signing up:

Striving to keep it surreal.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Puffy Dream Spoons
June 02, 2019 You Against Sunset
June 04, 2019 Stolen Conventions
June 05, 2019 Armistice 11 Nov.
June 07, 2019 Chasing Birds
June 15, 2019 and they're off
June 17, 2019 Mercator
June 18, 2019 Survival Class
June 19, 2019 World | News
June 27, 2019 Sunrise Rail

B

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 2:35pm

Bio:

Hi friend! I'm new to poetry, but grateful to have a seat at this table. My usual mediums are watercolor, graphite, colored pencil and writing nonfiction. I'm finishing out my Master's in Professional Counseling and hope to bring some joy to people through art and conversation.

Reason for signing up:

Trying an artistic outlet that makes me uncomfy.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 A Million Pounds of Sunshine
June 02, 2019 Coffee in its Place
June 03, 2019 Therapy
June 04, 2019 Committed
June 05, 2019 90 seconds (an LTMS tribute)
June 06, 2019 E's Resurrection
June 07, 2019 I love you a pie
June 08, 2019 Feet and Ground
June 09, 2019 Let the sun rest
June 10, 2019 Rock of Offense
June 11, 2019 Rumination vs Production
June 12, 2019 Lindy Hop
June 13, 2019 Freckle Bearer
June 14, 2019 Goodbye Ollie, Hello Louie
June 16, 2019 So I Thought
June 17, 2019 Labor and Waiting
June 18, 2019 He had to say it
June 19, 2019 Physical poetry
June 20, 2019 Slow
June 21, 2019 A Battle Worth Fighting
June 23, 2019 Five Seasons
June 24, 2019 Celebration
June 25, 2019 untitled
June 25, 2019 Not a Superhero
June 26, 2019 Take a breath
June 28, 2019 The Crooner Aunt
June 29, 2019 Spoken Garden

Bianca Bargo

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 6:50pm

Reason for signing up:

1) Christopher McCurry 2) Striving to be my best self

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Confessions
June 02, 2019 Wet Belly
June 03, 2019 Enlightenment and Entreaties from God (with Titles of Recently Played Songs on my Spotify)
June 04, 2019 Self-Fulfilling Story Teller
June 05, 2019 Benadryl
June 06, 2019 Picking Flowers with Jess in West Virginia
June 07, 2019 My body—an honest question
June 08, 2019 I don’t have a poem in me today
June 09, 2019 Math
June 10, 2019 I’ve Started Treating Myself Like a Dog
June 11, 2019 Black Thumb Haiku
June 12, 2019 Home from the Pub
June 14, 2019 I Forgot
June 15, 2019 Taking a Nap
June 16, 2019 A Glass Window Pane Apologizes to the Birds
June 18, 2019 Anxiety
June 19, 2019 Dry Hands
June 21, 2019 Empty Bowl
June 23, 2019 Pisces Love Poem

Bill Verble

Monday, May 27, 2019 @ 9:26am

Bio:

Bill gathers various words and rubs them together trying to spark a fire. His family kindly tolerates his efforts. Bill lives and toils in the big small town of Lexington.

Reason for signing up:

It was fun last year. Expecting more fun this year.

Website:

twitter.com/BillVerble

Poems:
June 03, 2019 Promise

Bitomni

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 @ 9:46am

Bio:

Bit started writing at a very young age after moving to KY from SC, it started with tiny diaries which turned into duct taped notebooks that she carries everywhere. She graduated from Georgetown College in 2013 with a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. You can usually find her dancing or singing to her plant babies in her apartment with her cats Astra and Biscuit.

Reason for signing up:

I am a poet. I am always writing and have kept my work to myself for years until now. I'm not sure why it's taken so long. Writer's Anxiety is real. I would love to meet more poets and formerly used to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and loved that so much.

Brigit Truex

Sunday, May 5, 2019 @ 8:07pm

Bio:

After a dozen years in the Sierra foothills, Brigit Truex has relocated in the Bluegrass flatlands. All the years before and since, she has reimagined her life in poetry, much of which has appeared in international and local journals and anthologies. Her latest book is Sierra Silk, available on Amazon and at local bookstores.

Reason for signing up:

To share my poetry with the Lexington community!

Website:

booksandsuchbybrigittruex.wordpress.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Exodus
June 02, 2019 Fourth Month
June 20, 2019 June, Faraway
June 22, 2019 Reading Fame
June 23, 2019 False Promises
June 24, 2019 For Now
June 25, 2019 Honor Dance
June 26, 2019 Some White Bird
June 27, 2019 Sinking to Ground
June 28, 2019 Sonnet of the Poplar Trees
June 30, 2019 Ten True Things

Bronson O'Quinn

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 8:59am

Bio:

Fiction writer, web developer, father of an awesome 2-year-old who just wants to read Astro Boy and watch Charlie's Colorforms 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?

Website:

bronsonoquinn.com

Poems:
June 06, 2019 Training your Adopted Child to be Batman
June 09, 2019 /r/OddlySatisfying
June 16, 2019 Father’s Day
June 21, 2019 This is Only a Test

Callie Budrick

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 @ 2:41pm

Bio:

Digital marketer manager for the arts. Community Conversations co-founder. Active member of the Pride SG. Dungeon master. Cat mom. Cat mom. Cat mom.

Reason for signing up:

Summertime inspiration!

Website:

instagram.com/callie_budrick

Poems:
June 03, 2019 paper clothes
June 05, 2019 racing the clock on a wednesday
June 06, 2019 since when did you start wearing hair products
June 16, 2019 my dad is the oak tree. my sister, the storm.

Caput Quadratus

Thursday, May 16, 2019 @ 10:26am

Bio:

Vir stultus est.

Carole Johnston

Monday, May 20, 2019 @ 11:49am

Website:

Face%20Herzog-Johnston

Poems:
June 01, 2019 untitled
June 02, 2019 untitled
June 03, 2019 untitled
June 04, 2019 infinity # 2
June 12, 2019 Haiku 1
June 14, 2019 haiku 2
June 15, 2019 haiku 3
June 16, 2019 Father
June 17, 2019 Infinity Carousel 4
June 21, 2019 Solstice
June 25, 2019 crepuscular
June 29, 2019 haiku

Carrie Elam Spillman

Saturday, May 4, 2019 @ 11:06pm

Bio:

Born and raised in Kentucky Carrie has spent her life wishing she had the guts to let other people read her work. Now at 21 she isn't as shy as she use to be.

Reason for signing up:

It's something i've always wanted to do. Nothings holding me back.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Bluebirds
June 03, 2019 Youth
June 04, 2019 Keeper
June 05, 2019 MOTHER
June 06, 2019 The Wild Inside Me
June 07, 2019 White Lightning
June 09, 2019 From The Sea
June 10, 2019 Metamorphosis
June 11, 2019 Smoke Rings
June 13, 2019 Fierce Love
June 16, 2019 But where do we go when we die
June 17, 2019 Birthday
June 18, 2019 21
June 19, 2019 First Time
June 20, 2019 Sober
June 21, 2019 DIANA
June 23, 2019 I do not fear death
June 24, 2019 Nights Like These
June 25, 2019 Longing
June 26, 2019 Ready
June 27, 2019 Self love isn’t easy
June 28, 2019 the only person you can depend on is you
June 29, 2019 don't worry
June 30, 2019 The hope in leaving

Chaiya Miller

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 10:02pm

Poems:
June 16, 2019 Brief Downpour Relief
June 28, 2019 pre-dusk chorus
June 30, 2019 Then What

Chappy Chapuk

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 2:10pm

Bio:

Boku qualifications, plus I am really nice and handsome. I'm also rich.

Reason for signing up:

I want a girlfriend.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 LOST POEM
June 02, 2019 FRECKLED STARTLE AT THE BEGINING
June 03, 2019 O BEE THOU ART SICK
June 04, 2019 Phenomenological Reduction of "waste." Epiphany Concerning Evolution
June 06, 2019 PROCESSION OF THE TAKERS
June 07, 2019 WOODCHUCK
June 08, 2019 RECLAIMING MUSIC IN RECOVERY
June 09, 2019 DISSONANCE
June 10, 2019 HOPE
June 11, 2019 HUMILITY
June 12, 2019 BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD
June 13, 2019 WARNING
June 14, 2019 CAMPING ALONE BITTERLY IN LOVE
June 15, 2019 Father's Day 2019
June 17, 2019 Strawberry Full Moon
June 22, 2019 AFFLICTION
June 23, 2019 BE STILL
June 25, 2019 THE POEM A DAY CONTEST
June 26, 2019 THE MOVEMENT OF LIGHT
June 28, 2019 Afternoon delight (for Buk)
June 29, 2019 KARMIC DEVIL
June 30, 2019 REDHEAD MERMAIDS FROM OUTER SPACE

Chelly

Friday, May 17, 2019 @ 2:50pm

Bio:

Chelle enjoys helping others smile, making them laugh, and being around positive, uplifting people.

Reason for signing up:

I enjoy writing and want to share my poetry with others. I also have a message in my poetry.

Website:

Facebook-%20Anna%20Chenault

Poems:
June 02, 2019 I need you
June 14, 2019 Mom

Christina Joy

Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 10:50pm

Bio:

She's old enough that she should know better.... but apparently doesn't care. Been writing poetry for the last quarter-century or so; been published once, self-published twice.

Reason for signing up:

Hmm... would it be bad form to say I signed up due to (gentle) peer pressure? ;)

Website:

facebook.com/RaidhosJourney

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Seeds
June 02, 2019 the estuary's mouth
June 03, 2019 untitled
June 04, 2019 Bleary 6am thoughts:
June 10, 2019 Your language....
June 16, 2019 untitled
June 17, 2019 (unsteady divination)
June 19, 2019 (AutoImmune)
June 23, 2019 Pointillism in shades of grey
June 24, 2019 Leavings
June 25, 2019 A Year Removed from Her River

Christopher McCurry

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 10:17am

Bio:

Christopher McCurry teaches high school English. He likes to play board games, skateboard, and go on adventures with his daughter, Abra.

Reason for signing up:

What's better than this?

Website:

workhorsewriters.com

cl kirby

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 9:43am

Bio:

Corey is a social worker, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, a big sister, an avid reader, a poet.

Reason for signing up:

LexPoMo has become part of who I am.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 the apology.
June 11, 2019 the disguise.
June 26, 2019 syndromes of stockholm

Claire Qian

Saturday, June 22, 2019 @ 11:03am

Bio:

Senior at Lafayette High school

Reason for signing up:

To establish a habit of poetry writing

Poems:
June 22, 2019 A Glass of Milk
June 23, 2019 Bichon Blitz
June 24, 2019 Cold
June 26, 2019 Exhaustion
June 28, 2019 Melting
July 01, 2019 Contradiction

Cathy Perkins

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 12:13pm

Bio:

Catherine Perkins, aka Cleo, enjoys writing poetry and performing stand-up comedy. Catherine has a 4 poems published, now 5, in LexPoMo anthologies and in Circe's Lament, Anthology of Wild Women Poetry. She likes to write limericks and write comedic poems, too.

Reason for signing up:

I enjoy the community of LexPoMo poets and feel it is a blessing and privilege to be one of them.

Poems:
June 07, 2019 Today
June 09, 2019 What You Should Know My First Poetry Teacher Taught Me
June 14, 2019 I Didn't Flush
June 18, 2019 The Poem You've Been Waiting For-Mr Trumpahoe
June 30, 2019 Poem for Poetry/ Gift of Grab

Colette Crown

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 9:59pm

Reason for signing up:

LexPoMo gives me the incentive to be more consistent in my writing practice. Plus it was a huge thrill to see one of my poems published in the anthology.

Poems:
June 26, 2019 Reminder
June 27, 2019 Hibiscus Haiku
June 29, 2019 Night vision

Constance Brown

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 11:59pm

Bio:

Constance is twenty years old and, at any given time, probably trying to root vines in water.

Reason for signing up:

I'm looking for positive peer pressure in day to day life.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 small things
June 02, 2019 saturday night

Dangerfield Yella

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 8:31am

Bio:

Once again back it's the incredible

Reason for signing up:

Time to write again

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Heart or a madman in Lawrenceburg
June 02, 2019 Quarter til 1am at IHOP or Full
June 03, 2019 Heart or drum machine
June 04, 2019 Multiverse or side effects
June 05, 2019 After work or observations outside a walmart
June 06, 2019 thinking about a dr. john second line OR this is what came out when i started typing.
June 10, 2019 Pillage or How It Be

D Neal

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 9:41pm

Bio:

Highschooler "yep, that pretty much sums it up." - David Neal

Poems:
June 01, 2019 The Perfect Appetizer
June 02, 2019 The Data Relay
June 03, 2019 The Reflection
June 04, 2019 untitled
June 05, 2019 untitled
June 05, 2019 untitled
June 06, 2019 untitled
June 07, 2019 the blade

Deanna Mascle

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 12:02pm

Bio:

Deanna Mascle is a writing evangelist who believes firmly in the power of the written word to change and save lives. She lives and writes in Mt. Sterling and teaches writing and writing teachers at Morehead State University.

Reason for signing up:

To keep me honest

Website:

deannamascle.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Pocket
June 03, 2019 Flight
June 06, 2019 Commission
June 17, 2019 Implacable
June 18, 2019 Launch
June 20, 2019 Work In Progress
June 28, 2019 Here's An Idea
June 29, 2019 Fort Sill Lesson Plan
June 30, 2019 Colonization

Ladetra Morgan

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 10:37am

Bio:

Mountain Mama, HS English teacher, homesick all the time for a place I’m not sure is there- I write to keep myself sane and I write to seek understanding.

Reason for signing up:

I wanted to be part of a community of writers sharing stories

Website:

appalachianwrites.blogspot.com

Poems:
June 06, 2019 June 1
June 08, 2019 June 2
June 10, 2019 you can still drink from a chipped cup

Debbie Adams Cooper

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 @ 1:53pm

Bio:

Appalachian born writer living in central Kentucky

Reason for signing up:

Because it is June!

Poems:
June 07, 2019 Chicago, 2019
June 09, 2019 My Mother at her Mother's Funeral or How the Preacher Got a Call from God
June 12, 2019 Chicago 2019: Lyft from Hell
June 25, 2019 Chicago 2019: At the Breakbeat Hip-Hop Lit Fest
June 30, 2019 30 June 2019

D.D.R.G.

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 3:23pm

Bio:

Dejah Garner is a Lexington native and is a student at Morehead State University. She enjoys reading books and plays, and writing poetry in her free time.

Reason for signing up:

A friend mentioned that she was participating and gave me the info on how I could too!

Poems:
June 02, 2019 dance is...
June 04, 2019 lovers
June 09, 2019 think of the times

Delmar Reffett

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 7:33pm

Bio:

Delmar Reffett writes criticism, short stories, poetry, and scribbled notes about his dreams at 3 am.

Reason for signing up:

My attention has been taken up with other projects lately, leaving me little time to write poetry. I'm hoping this will help me get back into it.

Dennis Preston

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 5:37pm

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 minister, and enjoys reading, writing, traveling, and spending time with his family. He has published five books of poetry including Cloaked Moon: Women of the Bible.

Reason for signing up:

I love to write, but sometimes I need to be challenged. I also love the LexPoMo community, and the positive feedback given on my work. It helps me become a better writer.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 New Box of Crayons
June 02, 2019 Silvery Sighting
June 03, 2019 Playground Tyrant
June 04, 2019 Quick Step
June 05, 2019 The Last Cent
June 06, 2019 Time for Art Class
June 07, 2019 Crayon Rubbing
June 08, 2019 Sky Rockets
June 09, 2019 Painted Leaves
June 10, 2019 Coastline
June 11, 2019 Diner Topple
June 12, 2019 A Leisure Stroll
June 13, 2019 Pumpkin Patch
June 14, 2019 Holiday Season
June 15, 2019 Jolly Ole St. Nicholas
June 16, 2019 Can't Comprehend
June 17, 2019 You're So Vain
June 18, 2019 Comfort Food
June 19, 2019 Microscopic
June 20, 2019 Auld Lang Syne
June 21, 2019 Break's Over
June 22, 2019 Valentine's Day
June 23, 2019 March Winds
June 24, 2019 April Showers
June 25, 2019 Coloring Easter Eggs
June 26, 2019 Vacation
June 27, 2019 Something's Up
June 28, 2019 Mom Breaks the News
June 29, 2019 Deep in Thought
June 30, 2019 Gesture of Kindness

Devan Watson

Monday, May 27, 2019 @ 8:34pm

Poems:
June 03, 2019 Reminder

Don Solarz

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 7:13pm

Bio:

Don Solarz is in a continuing process of self education...of the Self.

Reason for signing up:

Beware of the old Washington wordsmith's they will prompt you!

Poems:
June 01, 2019 light
June 02, 2019 For Granted
June 03, 2019 Jan.21,2017-I WALK
June 04, 2019 Where do we go from here?
June 05, 2019 For no reason
June 06, 2019 Ouch
June 07, 2019 Existence
June 08, 2019 Oh muse
June 09, 2019 Life
June 11, 2019 untitled
June 13, 2019 Lost hub-cap
June 21, 2019 Grace
June 22, 2019 Take some time
June 24, 2019 The flames of hell and what do we mean by success
June 29, 2019 A glimpse of nothingness
June 30, 2019 Lexpomo

Donelle Dreese

Monday, May 6, 2019 @ 7:13pm

Bio:

Donelle Dreese is a Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. She is the author of three collections of poetry including Sophrosyne (Aldrich Press). 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. Twitter:@donelledreese

Reason for signing up:

To support and participant in a vibrant literary community.

Website:

donelledreese.com

Poems:
June 05, 2019 Rhiannon Rings
June 11, 2019 Who Wants to Live Forever
June 19, 2019 Don't You Forget About Me
June 22, 2019 Different Kinds of Love
June 24, 2019 Reading a Long Novel

Lorelei Watson

Friday, May 24, 2019 @ 9:11am

Dwight Myfelt

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 6:22pm

Bio:

Dwight is an attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio who prefers writing poetry to writing legal briefs.

Reason for signing up:

I love anything that makes me a better poet, and LexPoMo seems like the perfect way to do that.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Lost
June 03, 2019 Turbulence
June 04, 2019 The Glue
June 05, 2019 Speak of the Devils
June 06, 2019 Lost or Found
June 07, 2019 The Truth
June 09, 2019 Cataracts
June 10, 2019 Dress Shoes, Black Socks, and Shorts
June 11, 2019 Escape Hatch
June 12, 2019 Parched
June 13, 2019 Shakespeare
June 16, 2019 A Word of Caution
June 17, 2019 Risky Business
June 18, 2019 I Need a Nocturnal Decoder Ring
June 19, 2019 paper deLorean
June 21, 2019 Overkill
June 22, 2019 One of These Things is Not Like the Others
June 24, 2019 crazy is as crazy does
June 27, 2019 All the Difference in the World

E. Ivanovna

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 9:59pm

Bio:

Elena is an LGBT college student shooting for a BA in theatre. They write on personal experiences and personal biases. A fun fact about them is that they are certified in unarmed stage combat by the SAFD organization of fight directors.

Reason for signing up:

Was asked to!

Evelyn Weaver

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 7:27am

Bio:

E. Y. Weaver is a creative writing student with an interest in poetry. She has been published in her school’s journals and has been the champion competitor Kentucky High School Speech League State Tournament for poetry and original oratory.

Reason for signing up:

I would like to get a taste of what it’s like to write poems frequently and create many rough drafts that I can clean up and possibly publish. Overall, I’m in it to learn.

Emily Nugent

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 12:39pm

Bio:

EJ hasn't written anything lengthier than a Facebook rant since she stopped writing Harry Potter fan fiction back in the day. Proceed with caution.

Reason for signing up:

Netflix is melting my brain.

Ellen Kathleen

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 @ 11:12pm

Bio:

Ellen is new to poetry...or at least sharing it. She's turned to it throughout various points in her life and a recent turning point found within her a desire to connect with fellow poets, see what she can learn from them, and to share her writings.

Reason for signing up:

I want to connect with and learn from other poets!

Emily Clare

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 10:25pm

Website:

yoakamchick

Eric Parsons

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 7:08pm

Bio:

I'm an anarcho socialist aardvark wrangling sonnovabitch.

Reason for signing up:

My sister made me.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Untitled.
June 02, 2019 Unsalted.
June 03, 2019 Singing my song.
June 04, 2019 untitled
June 05, 2019 untitled
June 06, 2019 Mind police.
June 07, 2019 Pockets thin.
June 18, 2019 untitled
June 20, 2019 Rare in The Air

Eric Scott Sutherland

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 8:35am

Bio:

Pushcart Prize nominee, Poet Laureate of Al’s Bar, and creative force behind Holler Poets Series, Eric Scott Sutherland is the author of four collections of poetry including his latest, Pendulum (Accents Publishing). Eric is an ISA certified arborist, a member of the Pine Mountain Collective, Urban Forest Initiative, and Kentucky Writers and Artists for Reforestation (KWAR). A native Kentuckian, he makes his home with his wife, step-son, three cats, and four fish in the heart of Lexington, Kentucky.

Reason for signing up:

To encourage me from my poetic hibernation and to share and be inspired in a community atmosphere.

Website:

ericscottsutherland.com

Poems:
June 06, 2019 Awkward scrapes

Erin Mathews

Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 8:22pm

Bio:

Erin Mathews is a Lexington native and a Cincinnati transplant. A reluctant poet and surefire storyteller, she writes for herself, family and friends.

Reason for signing up:

I can't imagine June without this project anymore, and it has been a great gift to watch my poetry grow and evolve every summer.

Poems:
June 03, 2019 Sunrise, Sunset
June 05, 2019 Heat Lightning
June 08, 2019 Home
June 19, 2019 When It Counts
June 26, 2019 Guess Who Ran Over Another Skateboard

Eliana

Monday, May 6, 2019 @ 7:07pm

Bio:

Lexington born and breaded. When not writing, you can find this gal sleeping in a field, thumbwarring with her muse, or running through the streets screaming about Beauty. Last name rhymes with Shakespeare. Too lame for a full name.

Reason for signing up:

I just wanna improve my writing and connect with other Lexington writers.

Poems:
June 14, 2019 Stillness is Poetry
June 18, 2019 Bounce House Hell
June 28, 2019 Close
June 29, 2019 Face the Sun
June 30, 2019 Nonsense Song

Evelen Rose

Thursday, May 16, 2019 @ 11:47am

Bio:

Evelen Rose has signed up for poetry because she feels like poetry today.

Reason for signing up:

I LIKE POETRY!!!

GA Smith

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 11:39am

Reason for signing up:

To be more like my heroes: Chris McCurry, t.l Andry, and Derek Glenn.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Cooking I
June 07, 2019 19.6.7 (Drunken Resentment I)
June 22, 2019 19.6.22 (Eight Months Later)
June 24, 2019 19.6.24 (Takin' It to the Streets)
June 25, 2019 19.6.25 (Pale)
June 26, 2019 19.6.26 (the bad nights)
June 27, 2019 19.6.27 (spoilage)
June 30, 2019 19.6.30 (kitchen traps)

Gaby Bedetti

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 @ 11:43am

Website:

gabriellabedetti.wordpress.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 With a Grin and a Small Guitar
June 02, 2019 Pantomime 101
June 03, 2019 Status Quo
June 04, 2019 Up the Goat Path
June 05, 2019 Kentucky Native Café
June 06, 2019 Show of Unity
June 07, 2019 Rain Dance
June 08, 2019 Sunset in NYC
June 09, 2019 Home Comforts
June 10, 2019 Singing in the Christmas Choir
June 11, 2019 Sun Setting and Rising
June 12, 2019 Coat
June 13, 2019 Introverts at the Table
June 14, 2019 Artless
June 15, 2019 Sonogram
June 16, 2019 Easter Sunday of the Resurrection
June 17, 2019 Once a Teacher
June 18, 2019 High Street Y
June 19, 2019 L'état, c'est moi
June 20, 2019 Critique Night
June 21, 2019 Our Son, the Intern
June 22, 2019 Little Eden
June 23, 2019 Walking
June 24, 2019 World Cup Women
June 25, 2019 The Pines of Interlochen
June 26, 2019 Too Much, Too Little
June 27, 2019 High Tech, High Touch
June 28, 2019 Spring in the City
June 29, 2019 Summer
June 30, 2019 Watching Dallas with My Grandmother

Geri

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 10:48am

Bio:

Geri was a poet in a former life and is happy to find that life again.

Reason for signing up:

To be among writers!

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Devices
June 04, 2019 Poem at Night
June 06, 2019 Drugs After Surgery
June 07, 2019 Buckshot
June 10, 2019 Matching, with thanks to Betsy Lerner
June 11, 2019 Spider
June 13, 2019 Robin
June 16, 2019 Meal Time
June 18, 2019 Peaches
June 20, 2019 Veins
June 22, 2019 Granted
June 26, 2019 Daily Dose
June 27, 2019 Lovers
June 29, 2019 Picking Raspberries

GINC

Thursday, May 16, 2019 @ 11:38am

Bio:

He goes to the Maysville Academy from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. He enjoys going to school, Monday threw Friday. His parents work at the Parc cafe in Maysville. He is more thin than big.

Gloria Kay

Friday, May 24, 2019 @ 9:13am

Bio:

Gloria Kay is a young, teen poet attempting to now make her stand as best as she can in the local scene of Lexington. She loves reading and writing (especially poetry). She also adores music.

Reason for signing up:

I want to continue having a motivation to write and publish my poetry over the summer.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Trust Issues

H.A.

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 8:48am

Bio:

H.A. Spinelli is a nature-loving, tea sipping educator by day, and a rock star until around 8 p.m.

Reason for signing up:

I signed up because non-fiction prose is really my thing, and poetry is my challenge. Poetry is also my fear (as a writer). I like a good challenge. I like to face my fears.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 When The Universe Has Your Back (Sometimes)
June 02, 2019 One Breath
June 03, 2019 Safe Passage
June 04, 2019 Drown
June 05, 2019 A Passing Storm
June 06, 2019 Before Sunrise
June 07, 2019 Meant to Mother
June 08, 2019 Hunting
June 09, 2019 Morning on the Lake
June 10, 2019 Summer Slumber
June 11, 2019 Ask
June 12, 2019 Suffocate
June 13, 2019 Hunger
June 14, 2019 Bilita Mpash
June 15, 2019 Cosmic Pass
June 16, 2019 Ripe
June 17, 2019 City Fruit
June 18, 2019 Implode
June 19, 2019 Shadows
June 20, 2019 Fragile
June 21, 2019 Return
June 22, 2019 Spirit Song
June 23, 2019 A day's work
June 24, 2019 Vanished
June 25, 2019 Excess
June 26, 2019 Flight
June 27, 2019 Tiny Flame
June 28, 2019 Earth
June 29, 2019 Stolen
June 30, 2019 Old Runner

HAROLD SHERMAN

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 2:47pm

Bio:

Harold Sherman is a Donovan Scholar going for an English degree at the University of Kentucky. He has been a professional musician most of his adult life and earned MM in Composition at the UK School of Music. Early in life, he started out writing poetry that rhymed--but got over it.

Reason for signing up:

I was told about it at Carnegie Center Writing Practice.

Website:

BuckMarkLLC.com

Poems:
June 02, 2019 BREAKING FAKE NEWS
June 03, 2019 BASEBALL CARDS
June 04, 2019 Metaphors Aren't Similes
June 05, 2019 QUESTIONS YOU HAVE PROBABLY NEVER ASKED YOURSELF
June 07, 2019 CRUISE SHIP KARAOKE
June 08, 2019 FESTINGER AND FINN
June 09, 2019 CAN I WRITE A SERIOUS POEM?
June 11, 2019 SEARCH OF THE SPIRIT
June 12, 2019 BUDGET CUTS
June 19, 2019 NARRATIVE NEVER USED ON A PRARIE HOME COMPANION LEADING UP TO THE RHUBARB PIE JINGLE
June 20, 2019 WHEN THE TITLE IS ACTUALLY LONGER THAN THE POEM
June 21, 2019 REMEMBERING WOODSTOCK
June 23, 2019 TO THE CHILD I NEVER HAD
June 24, 2019 THINGS THAT DIDN’T MAKE MY BUCKET LIST
June 25, 2019 HIS FEAR OF SUCCESS
June 26, 2019 ONE-LINERS REVISITED
June 27, 2019 THE NOISE, THE SILENCE
June 29, 2019 ABOUT THAT FOURTH WALL
June 30, 2019 CHANNELING YOGI BERRA

haven coleman

Saturday, May 25, 2019 @ 12:02am

Bio:

I’m here to do the thing with the words

Reason for signing up:

I like doing the thing with the words

Poems:
June 07, 2019 Redbox

HB Elam

Monday, May 13, 2019 @ 5:19pm

Bio:

HB is around here, somewhere.

Reason for signing up:

Bad habits are hard to break.

Website:

hbelam.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 rumble
June 02, 2019 ieiuno
June 03, 2019 ouroborean
June 04, 2019 attraversiamo
June 05, 2019 Excuse me, but
June 06, 2019 recherché
June 07, 2019 s.i., and other thoughts at work
June 08, 2019 anti-HEPA
June 09, 2019 ineffable
June 10, 2019 august
June 11, 2019 two plus two equals five, for large values of two
June 12, 2019 seem
June 13, 2019 break in case of elder gods
June 14, 2019 return to sender
June 15, 2019 empire
June 16, 2019 tinderbox
June 17, 2019 URLA, or something like it
June 18, 2019 narthex
June 19, 2019 "Russell, let's go get us some JI-ROWS"
June 20, 2019 the view outside Overton's window
June 21, 2019 totally fucked
June 22, 2019 close enough
June 23, 2019 accidental architects
June 24, 2019 unproductive ways to talk to your therapist about your "depression"
June 25, 2019 what do you do?
June 26, 2019 one of numerous oblique memories
June 27, 2019 picture perfect
June 28, 2019 five ways of looking at thirty
June 29, 2019 bedtime
June 30, 2019 past perfect

Heatherannie

Monday, May 20, 2019 @ 2:42pm

Bio:

Heather writes. Heather reads. Heather loves the written word word. She lives in Berea KY with her husband and 8 year old son.

Reason for signing up:

Because I love Lexington Poetry Month!

Poems:
June 03, 2019 Brave
June 05, 2019 Jenga
June 07, 2019 Dear Death
June 09, 2019 Life Savers
June 11, 2019 Stranger than Fiction
June 16, 2019 The Good Guys
June 17, 2019 Some Things Refuse to Unravel
June 26, 2019 Therapy
June 28, 2019 World Cup

Helen Feibes

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 9:55pm

Bio:

Helen is a seventeen-year-old eighteen year-old who writes poetry because she must.

Reason for signing up:

I was told to.

Poems:
June 03, 2019 when I am eighteen and think about being older
June 20, 2019 the one about the dogs in the summer
June 27, 2019 parking lot geology

Hugg

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 11:56am

Poems:
June 18, 2019 Creative Writing
June 19, 2019 Some Days
June 24, 2019 The Last Beauty
June 30, 2019 Here

hunter e. westenhofer

Monday, May 20, 2019 @ 1:23pm

Bio:

Hunter is a student residing in central Kentucky. He has a profound passion for reading and writing literature, as well as for traveling. He is fascinated by the human experience: how we are all struggling in our own unique way, and how we all have equally complex relationships and existences; and yet, we are all still striving to maintain goodness on this Earth.

Reason for signing up:

Jennifer Beckett recommended LexPoMo to me, and it sounded like a wonderful experience, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 licking up summertime
June 02, 2019 hot coffee and lilacs on a sunday morning
June 03, 2019 finding myself craving more
June 04, 2019 realizing i'm still bruised
June 05, 2019 dreaming of burning bridges
June 06, 2019 hometown barbeque
June 07, 2019 i can't remember the last time i made my bed
June 08, 2019 something happened here
June 09, 2019 moving on
June 10, 2019 sex ed in pride month
June 11, 2019 affliction
June 12, 2019 naptime dreaming
June 13, 2019 make out with yourself
June 14, 2019 to the big woods
June 15, 2019 lunch at a bosnian cafe
June 16, 2019 sunburnt
June 17, 2019 i'm still trying to figure out if i love you
June 18, 2019 making decisions
June 19, 2019 the epilogue
June 20, 2019 i finally made my bed
June 21, 2019 all in due time
June 22, 2019 three brief treatises on hair
June 23, 2019 after the beach
June 24, 2019 going to your house to make tea
June 25, 2019 you give me mixed signals
June 26, 2019 chasing fireflies
June 27, 2019 caffeinated day
June 28, 2019 skinny dipping
June 29, 2019 sorrow
June 30, 2019 the end of june

Hunter Nelson

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 @ 9:22am

Bio:

I like things and do other things.

Reason for signing up:

Why not?

Website:

instagram.com/funkyspirits

Poems:
June 01, 2019 untitled
June 02, 2019 Dementia
June 04, 2019 The Sun Sets Early on the Front Range

J. F. Angel

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 11:51pm

Bio:

J. F. Angel is a transgender/bi-gender writer. S/he is a pop culture nerd who loves movies, comic books, girly pop music, and theater. S/he has a BA in English from Eastern Kentucky University and a certificate in screenwriting from New York Film Academy.

Reason for signing up:

Referred by Jay McCoy. Inspired by Katerina Stoykova's recent poetry reading from Second Skin. I have enjoyed writing a poem a day before during Creative Devotion workshops led by Leigh Medeiros online. Katerina told me, "Tell your story." I'm here to do that.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Tragic
June 02, 2019 Supermarket Second Thoughts
June 03, 2019 Safe to Be Me (Part 1)
June 04, 2019 Safe to Be Me (Part 2)
June 05, 2019 Apology to a Younger Self
June 06, 2019 30 Day Notice
June 07, 2019 Looking Over My Shoulder
June 08, 2019 Almost
June 09, 2019 Envy
June 10, 2019 Tired
June 11, 2019 H.O.A.
June 12, 2019 Abandonment
June 13, 2019 Almost Pt 2
June 14, 2019 When It Was My Turn
June 16, 2019 Untitled
June 17, 2019 The Cruelest Things
June 18, 2019 Maybe Next Life
June 19, 2019 How Things Are Built
June 21, 2019 Call Me By My Many Names
June 24, 2019 What's Normal?
June 25, 2019 Fix
June 26, 2019 To My Future Love
June 27, 2019 Choose
June 28, 2019 To the Girl I Used to Be
July 01, 2019 Pride 2019

J. Wise

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 10:44am

Bio:

Raconteur, rabble-rouser, iconoclast. I'll be your huckleberry.

Reason for signing up:

Tradition.

J.A Caswell

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 4:30pm

Bio:

My life is depressingly mediocre

Reason for signing up:

I hope I haven't lost my magic

j.l taylor

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 2:20pm

Bio:

a recent MFA grad trying to get it all together. poetry may have slipped away from her these past two years, but she's ready to weave it back in.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 the last people
June 02, 2019 untitled
June 04, 2019 somewhere in denver
June 06, 2019 dear seattle

Jamie Mann

Monday, May 20, 2019 @ 2:51pm

jane

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 1:47pm

Reason for signing up:

Curiosity!

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Summer heat
June 02, 2019 She and me
June 03, 2019 Like the morning
June 04, 2019 Undecided
June 05, 2019 Small mercies
June 06, 2019 Patti
June 07, 2019 The Way of Things
June 08, 2019 The Know-it-All
June 09, 2019 Old lament
June 10, 2019 Bulletproof
June 11, 2019 The best revenge
June 12, 2019 Legacy
June 13, 2019 As we were
June 14, 2019 Yes I think we've been here before
June 15, 2019 Home
June 16, 2019 Rocks like waves
June 17, 2019 To be six years old at the grocery store
June 18, 2019 Subatomic
June 19, 2019 In the weak times
June 20, 2019 For Daniel, Wherever You Are
June 21, 2019 Tha Grandmaster
June 22, 2019 Catch and Release
June 23, 2019 When we were at war
June 24, 2019 Refrain
June 25, 2019 Our daily breath
June 26, 2019 Feelings for Doom
June 27, 2019 Cheers
June 28, 2019 Closure
June 29, 2019 Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
June 30, 2019 She died (Invisible)

Jay McCoy

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 5:47pm

Reason for signing up:

I didn't participate last year and I regretted it. I had to return this year.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Modern MadLibs
June 03, 2019 A Lingering Sonnet Blooms
June 28, 2019 Of Love and Memory
June 30, 2019 On Pessoa's Advice

Jay St. Orts

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 10:54am

Bio:

Jay St. Orts writes the occasional reality-based poem, plays music poorly (but with joy), cooks food (same), home-brews, and edits collections of words in exchange for food and concert money. You can read some of his work, such as his review of The Monkees semi-barbaric yawp for artistic independence, the 1967 Headquarters album, at thebrowntweedsociety.com/author/jaystorts/.

Reason for signing up:

"How does anything happen? Move past it, Charlie."
—Frank Reynolds

Website:

thebrowntweedsociety.com/author/jaystorts

Poems:
June 04, 2019 Tiberius' Leviathan
June 06, 2019 Stack O'Dimes (an unfinished song)
June 13, 2019 I Pick Up Every One
June 17, 2019 U-turn
June 26, 2019 Snake Conrad & Schadenfreude
June 27, 2019 Anansi's Boys
June 28, 2019 "We believe in nothing, Lebowski."

Jazzy

Saturday, May 4, 2019 @ 10:27pm

Bio:

Jasmine Lykins is an Appalachian writer who is trying her best to get it together. So far so good.

Reason for signing up:

I am looking for a way to make my writing better. Also I love poetry!

Poems:
June 01, 2019 When Did I Realize I Was A Woman?
June 02, 2019 Self-Care For the Working Class
June 03, 2019 Sweet Stranger
June 04, 2019 Please Forgive Me
June 05, 2019 God Makes No Mistakes
June 06, 2019 Drinking From The River of Fear
June 07, 2019 Greedy Love(Appalachian Lament)
June 08, 2019 Far Too Late
June 09, 2019 Roadkill or Opossum
June 10, 2019 If My Mother Calls
June 11, 2019 Rising & Rising
June 12, 2019 A Disjointed Love Letter To Myself
June 13, 2019 Raise Ya Window, Honey
June 14, 2019 Just Fine
June 15, 2019 An Ounce
June 16, 2019 Oh So Different
June 17, 2019 Do You Want Children?
June 18, 2019 A Fog Crept Over The Mountains
June 19, 2019 When My Mind Becomes Cluttered
June 20, 2019 Anxiety War
June 21, 2019 Something I’d Like To Say If You’d Get Off Your High Horse
June 22, 2019 I Think It’s Getting Bad
June 23, 2019 Used Goods
June 24, 2019 Always Been Enough
June 25, 2019 Stevie Nicks Wrote A Song For Me
June 26, 2019 To My Anxiety Attack In The Shower
June 27, 2019 What If
June 28, 2019 Stranger Danger
June 29, 2019 Mountains Mountains
June 30, 2019 Dear Future Me

JBird

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 11:37am

Bio:

JBird loves to write. JBird has been writing for her whole life. Even if she didn’t realize what she was doing. JBird can’t wait to fill the world with her stories and poems.

Reason for signing up:

I love writing, it’s always been apart of me. And it has become a way to escape and fully express myself.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Gone
June 03, 2019 How
June 06, 2019 When did I loose this feeling
June 15, 2019 What am I supposed to do

Jennifer (Stricklett) Dobson

Sunday, May 5, 2019 @ 9:14am

Poems:
June 05, 2019 Murderess Among Us
June 07, 2019 One Night Stand?

Jennifer Barricklow

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 12:33pm

Bio:

Jennifer Barricklow is a writer and freelance editor in Lexington KY. She also enjoys gardening, working with the Tarot, and crocheting. One of her dreams is to become a gypsy fortune teller.

Reason for signing up:

To connect with these amazing writers and be active in the community we create together.

Website:

dailycompost.wordpress.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Appalachian pranayama
June 02, 2019 Reflections of a certain Fish, Preserved by name
June 03, 2019 In the marketplace of wisdom
June 13, 2019 Necromancy of the everyday
June 16, 2019 Overheard at brunch
June 18, 2019 Alarm cat
June 20, 2019 A woman is leaving
June 23, 2019 There were demons
June 25, 2019 Weather forecast

Jennifer Beckett

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 8:45am

Bio:

Jennifer Beckett is a writer and a teacher.

Reason for signing up:

What's June without poetry?!

Poems:
June 18, 2019 While driving, I saw
June 25, 2019 The year after the loss

Jennifer Burchett

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 @ 8:36am

Bio:

Originally a theatre nerd (Ohio Wesleyan University) and then a restaurateur (Cafe Jennifer), Jennifer is currently a maker of soup and a writer of words. Raised in Ohio, she has lived in New York City and Seattle, but has settled in the Bluegrass to be near her Appalachian roots.

Reason for signing up:

I write fiction, and I hope this daily exercise will get my creative juices flowing. (I’m definitely not a poet, so this will be a good stretch for me.) I participated several years ago and had a great experience. Let’s go, y’all!

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Daybreak
June 02, 2019 The New Frugal Gourmet
June 03, 2019 Fading
June 04, 2019 things I was told at twenty-something
June 06, 2019 Not Today
June 20, 2019 Dialogue
June 28, 2019 Words

Jennifer Curtis

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 7:01am

Bio:

Jennifer is a wife, daughter, and mother. She enjoys reading, traveling, makeup artistry, and spending time with her famiy.

Reason for signing up:

To challenge myself to continue writing.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Morning Visitor
June 04, 2019 Keeping Watch
June 19, 2019 Changed My Everyday Life
June 20, 2019 Gadget
June 27, 2019 Younique

Jerielle

Friday, May 24, 2019 @ 8:08pm

Bio:

Painter, dreamer, appreciator, observer, listener, teacher, acolyte of Love.

Reason for signing up:

It's about time

Website:

etsy.com/shop/kentuckypopart

Poems:
June 14, 2019 Morning song
June 18, 2019 Strawberry Moon
June 20, 2019 Inside Every Story

Jessica Swafford

Sunday, May 26, 2019 @ 9:07am

Bio:

Jessica Swafford is a poet from Georgetown, Kentucky who also dabbles in art.

Reason for signing up:

I do it every year. I enjoy the community and camaraderie. This year I also need a distraction from life.

Poems:
June 05, 2019 Heart Ultrasound
June 15, 2019 Pink

Jim Lally

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 8:36am

Bio:

After 70 years Jim Lally is learning how to waltz.

Reason for signing up:

To write

Poems:
June 03, 2019 Veiled World (From: Earliest Memories)
June 04, 2019 Mad Dog (From: Earliest Memories)
June 05, 2019 ..."Is this heaven?" I asked. (From: Earliest Memories)
June 06, 2019 Blood on the Leaves (From: Earliest Memories)
June 07, 2019 Recognition (From:Earliest Memories)
June 08, 2019 The Water Hose (From:Earliest Memories)
June 09, 2019 The Running Board (From: First Memories)
June 11, 2019 Howdy Doody. (From: Earliest Memories)
June 13, 2019 Narrow Slats of Light (From: Earliest Memories)
June 14, 2019 A Piece of Baby Ruth (From Earliest Memories)
June 16, 2019 My Body in the World
June 17, 2019 The Great Leap Forward
June 18, 2019 For a Bicycle
June 19, 2019 4...5...6...7
June 20, 2019 The Press of Soles
June 21, 2019 Saturday Revelation # 7
June 23, 2019 The Columbia
June 25, 2019 Someday Never Comes
June 26, 2019 '55 Station Wagon
June 29, 2019 First-Grade Guesswork
June 30, 2019 I Don't Want To Write This Story

JK Elias

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 10:35pm

Bio:

JK Elias currently lives in the Greater Cincinnati area, but grew up in Central Kentucky. They began writing poems on a semi-regular basis during a brief (but impactful) time when they attended Poezia, a Lexington based writing group.

Reason for signing up:

Honestly, I have a need for external validation. It's very sad, and I should probably see a therapist. I have no idea why I continue to occasionally write. I don't particularly enjoy it, do not use it as catharsis or a means of expression, and do not consider myself a "creative" person. I've tried to participate actively in LexPoMo in the past, with disastrous results. This year, I decided to use a pen name for personal reasons, which has had the unexpected effect of being very liberating. I feel less pressure regarding what I post and more freedom to explore things outside my usual arbitrary, self-imposed aesthetic principles.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 a parting song
June 02, 2019 love poem
June 03, 2019 tom ackerman
June 04, 2019 myth of nations
June 05, 2019 walking into night
June 06, 2019 desire
June 07, 2019 lord and master
June 08, 2019 after a text from my ex
June 09, 2019 theophany
June 10, 2019 privacy
June 11, 2019 angels
June 18, 2019 oblivion
June 19, 2019 snow
June 20, 2019 scatterings

Jo Manczyk

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 @ 11:17am

Bio:

Jordyn Manczyk is a native of Lexington, Kentucky, where she currently lives with her husband and her droopy-eared Bagle-hound. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky MFA program in Creative Writing, and she is currently a PhD student at UK studying Higher Education Policy and teaching Developmental Composition. She loves to write about family, nature, and the rolling hillsides of her beloved Kentucky home. When she isn't writing, she's probably listening to a podcast, cooking, or playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Reason for signing up:

This is my third year signing up with Lexington Poetry Month, and I have found that LexPoMo gets me connected with writers in my area, keeps me writing, and reminds me that there is always room for art and hope in a dark world.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Sowing Seeds
June 21, 2019 Snail Tracks

John Duncan

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 3:41pm

Reason for signing up:

I love poetry.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 MississippiEaster
June 02, 2019 boy massacre
June 03, 2019 How you hated Guns n'Roses
June 04, 2019 Happy where we are
June 05, 2019 when you wouldn't help me pay my bill
June 06, 2019 Fleet of field day
June 11, 2019 People Food

John McCurry

Monday, May 20, 2019 @ 3:16pm

Poems:
June 01, 2019 The Little Giant
June 02, 2019 In the Garden of Consistency
June 03, 2019 The Fourth Night
June 04, 2019 Curated Imperfection
June 05, 2019 Digging Holes
June 06, 2019 Ocarina of Time
June 07, 2019 Joy in the Night
June 13, 2019 Are We Still Talking About Frog Eggs?

Jordan Quinn

Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 6:41pm

Bio:

Jordan Quinn resides in Paris, KY. She is a proud University of Kentucky alumna and has participated in LexPoMo for the past several summers.

Reason for signing up:

I’m trying to build my personal repertoire and it’s always a pleasure to read work from other local poets.

Joseph Allen Nichols

Monday, May 6, 2019 @ 8:30am

Bio:

Joseph Allen Nichols endeavors to write the legend of tomorrow out of the folklores of yesterday, from a place of unlimited potentials & today.

Reason for signing up:

Seventh time's a charm, no? And because I love you guys.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Proselyte
June 05, 2019 What Must and Cannot Be Said
June 06, 2019 Mimosa Pudica
June 07, 2019 Elemental
June 08, 2019 yoked
June 10, 2019 The Druid as a Homeowner
June 11, 2019 Whose is Bigger
June 13, 2019 Light as a Feather; Stiff as a Board
June 15, 2019 It's Wedding Day
June 17, 2019 Taking the Knee (Back)
June 19, 2019 If Time is a Ghost
June 26, 2019 Summer Senryu
June 27, 2019 In the Triangle
June 28, 2019 Epiphonoma

Jude Lally

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 11:13am

Poems:
June 10, 2019 Haiku #1
June 11, 2019 untitled
June 12, 2019 Confluence
June 13, 2019 Haiku #2
June 17, 2019 Divine Intrusion
June 19, 2019 Mad as a Mongaloid
June 21, 2019 Nonagenarian
June 26, 2019 Evolution of a Narrative
June 28, 2019 The Last Stop

Julianne Vantland

Monday, May 20, 2019 @ 2:29pm

Bio:

Writer, gardener, mom, reader, creek-splasher, mental illness stigma smasher, spiritually curious, politically furious, collecting brilliant friends from all the places my husband's academic journey has taken us. (lexington is my favorite)

Reason for signing up:

I am desperately in need of poetry writing accountability. I get way too precious with my writing and end up writing nothing at all because I can’t do it perfectly on the first try. I’m looking forward to learning from and being inspired by the community!

Website:

juliannevantland.com

Poems:
June 11, 2019 8 Years In The Unmaking
June 23, 2019 I Cannot Fix It, But I Can Weep

K. Bruce Florence

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 10:20am

Bio:

Writer of mostly narrative work, because I love stories. Grandmother, columnist, novelist and church elder.

Reason for signing up:

The challenge of LexPoMo pushes me to apply brain and fingers to work that demands that I reach beyond retirement ease. Also, I love visiting with all the other poets and watching how they address this task.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Colville: Bridge to Cabin
June 02, 2019 First House on the Right
June 03, 2019 First House on the Left
June 04, 2019 Second House On the Right
June 05, 2019 Schoolhouse Second on Right
June 06, 2019 Third House on the Right
June 07, 2019 Third House on the Left
June 08, 2019 More at Hoppy's Place
June 09, 2019 View From the Road
June 10, 2019 Rooted on Colville Road
June 11, 2019 House,Left, Two Fields Back
June 12, 2019 No House,Fence Row,Rarest Tree
June 13, 2019 House Four Skipped
June 14, 2019 Computer Takes Over
June 15, 2019 Blooming Bluegrass Ditty
June 16, 2019 Sixth House on Right
June 17, 2019 Bugs Today
June 18, 2019 Houses Face a Storm
June 19, 2019 House Building Revised to Fit
June 20, 2019 Hill House On The Left
June 21, 2019 Buffalo Trace Right of the Road
June 22, 2019 Longest Day
June 23, 2019 House of Gold
June 24, 2019 Graduation Day
June 25, 2019 House Spawns the Next House
June 30, 2019 Covered Bridge at The End of the Road

K. Nicole Wilson

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 @ 3:09pm

Bio:

the K is for Kentucky,
(and my scarlet A stands for Art,)
black and blue ink circles my veins,
when you find it, take the heart.

Reason for signing up:

word addict

Website:

bit.ly/3N2pFDN

Poems:
June 13, 2019 Emulation
June 22, 2019 Kentucky Reign
June 29, 2019 Hollow Pint Glasses
June 30, 2019 Uncoupling

Ka`imilani

Sunday, May 5, 2019 @ 7:50am

Bio:

Ka`imilani is a writing teacher at a 4-8th grade arts school. She is a mother of four grown children and a grandchild, is presently in the MFA Bluegrass Writing program at EKU.

Reason for signing up:

Because I like the challenge.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 It Doesn't Just Happen in the News
June 04, 2019 Stopping Mid-Stream
June 05, 2019 Suddenly Summer
June 06, 2019 Dove Song
June 10, 2019 Rip Tide
June 11, 2019 Changing Course
June 12, 2019 Waiting for Sunrise
June 13, 2019 Ballistic Missile Inbound
June 14, 2019 Life Lessons
June 15, 2019 Lead Us to Still Waters
June 16, 2019 Great Liberators
June 17, 2019 We Can't All Be Madonna
June 19, 2019 DNA is Sea and Land
June 20, 2019 Poem on the Road
June 22, 2019 Forest

Karah Stokes

Friday, May 10, 2019 @ 10:14pm

Bio:

Karah lives, writes, and gardens in Frankfort, and teaches writing and cultural studies at BCTC and EKU.

Reason for signing up:

It's a bad habit of mine.

Website:

lazyorganicrosegardener.com

Poems:
June 17, 2019 Fingers interlaced at the edges of everything
June 18, 2019 Just becoming visible
June 21, 2019 Solstice
June 27, 2019 able now at last to be the rain

Karen George

Friday, May 3, 2019 @ 10:40am

Bio:

Karen George, a native Kentuckian, has published five chapbooks, most recently an ekphrastic collaborative chapbook, Frame and Mount the Sky, and two collections, Swim Your Way Back and A Map and One Year. 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, woods, mountains, and historic river towns.

Reason for signing up:

This will be my seventh year for LEXPOMO, and I love writing a poem-a-day with other poets.

Website:

karenlgeorge.blogspot.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Tell me if you’re still learning
June 02, 2019 What Is It You Are Struggling For?
June 04, 2019 Here I am again
June 05, 2019 Today I want to paint nakedness
June 07, 2019 I'm Starting to Get Used to Suffering
June 10, 2019 Living Is Such a Tangle
June 14, 2019 “Stranded in Time” *
June 15, 2019 To Risk the Whole Thing
June 16, 2019 After a rainy night
June 17, 2019 Winging It
June 19, 2019 Falling
June 21, 2019 The enormous spine of the imagination
June 23, 2019 Breaking Open
June 25, 2019 Beauty Finds Me
June 28, 2019 When you're torqued
June 29, 2019 Sometimes A Photo Hollows You

Karen Mireau

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 4:09pm

Bio:

Karen Mireau, Founder of Azalea Art Press, is a “Literary Midwife” and small boutique publisher specializing in producing beautiful, meaningful and imaginative books. It is her desire to help others to express themselves with maximum creativity and literary integrity.

Reason for signing up:

Poetry is my first love . . .

Website:

azaleaartpress.blogspot.com

Kate Fadick

Friday, May 3, 2019 @ 1:56pm

Poems:
June 01, 2019 trying to say god
June 02, 2019 trying to say god 2
June 04, 2019 trying to say god 3
June 05, 2019 trying to say god 4
June 06, 2019 trying to say god 5
June 08, 2019 trying to say god 6
June 09, 2019 trying to say god 7
June 11, 2019 trying to say God 8
June 12, 2019 trying to say God 9
June 13, 2019 trying to say God 10
June 15, 2019 trying to say god 11
June 16, 2019 trying to say god 12
June 18, 2019 trying to say god 13
June 19, 2019 trying to say god 14
June 27, 2019 trying to say god 15
June 29, 2019 trying to say god 16

Katerina Stoykova

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 8:56pm

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Villanelle for Kelly
June 02, 2019 Poem, made up of titles of several recently acquired poetry books
June 05, 2019 One-sided Conversation
June 06, 2019 untitled
June 07, 2019 A Very Short Play
June 13, 2019 Little Cliché Song in Two Parts
June 15, 2019 Haiku for 6/15
June 29, 2019 I shame, therefore I am.

Kathleen Crosmer

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 9:57pm

Bio:

Kathleen is relatively new to poetry, and now can't imagine her life without it. She is especially grateful for her faithful poetry group, full of encouragement, friendly challenges and laughter. She and her husband Jonathan are planning to move to Oxford, England this summer to start a chamber music concert series with a friend.

Reason for signing up:

Because a friend encouraged me to.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Yardsale
June 02, 2019 Moving
June 05, 2019 Infant-Feline Scrimmage
June 08, 2019 Vertigo
June 09, 2019 In progress
June 12, 2019 Seasons
June 17, 2019 Roadkill on the Information Highway
June 24, 2019 Celebration
June 26, 2019 Habi the Hedgehog
June 30, 2019 a garden untended

Kathleen Gregg

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 10:36am

Bio:

Kathleen Gregg has never been the same since she took her first poetry writing class at Carnegie Center eight years ago! Several of her poems have now been published and she has developed a wonderful network of fellow writers! Life is good!

Reason for signing up:

LexPoMo is a poetry fest like no other!

Poems:
June 07, 2019 NOT THE USUAL SONG OR SMELL
June 08, 2019 EMERGENCE
June 09, 2019 HOW ODDS CHANGE
June 10, 2019 IS ICE CREAM A DECISION? (for Nancy)
June 11, 2019 FEEDBACK
June 12, 2019 THE EVE SYNDROME, for J.
June 13, 2019 ANTS POETICA
June 14, 2019 I'M KEEPING MY MOTHER'S URN
June 18, 2019 TWO HOURS INTO A TEN-HOUR DRIVE TO WISCONSIN
June 23, 2019 MAGNETIC MIDNIGHT (best time to see auroras)
June 25, 2019 PARKWAY ODYSSEY,1976
June 27, 2019 IF TRUMP COULD REWRITE THE STATUE OF LIBERTY MOTTO
June 29, 2019 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S RUN
June 30, 2019 MY SPRING CALIBRATION

Katie Cross Gibson

Sunday, May 5, 2019 @ 3:35pm

Website:

twitter.com/KRC_Gee

Poems:
June 01, 2019 how to hold
June 02, 2019 at nintendo new york, july 16, 2016
June 03, 2019 great-grandmother, maternal (“grandma”)
June 04, 2019 T. Cruz
June 08, 2019 an ethereal flight; or, notes on beer
June 09, 2019 strengthen your bones
June 16, 2019 i’ll feed him a poem each day
June 18, 2019 expiration date
June 24, 2019 Parenthood

Katrin Flores

Thursday, May 16, 2019 @ 12:35am

Bio:

Katrin Flores is a social work and psychology student at UK. She loves Jesus, Tina Belcher, and hammocking and just learned how to do a ladder stitch!

Reason for signing up:

Because some people (geniuses) decided to combine Kentucky, poetry, and community all into one

Poems:
June 04, 2019 when you call it makes me tired
June 13, 2019 kaylee
June 18, 2019 new frontiers
June 28, 2019 how she leaves herself behind
June 29, 2019 lightning storm

Kelley Tennille

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 11:02am

Website:

ladylovesinked.tumblr.com

Poems:
June 12, 2019 reincarnation

kelly casey

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 2:02pm

Bio:

just living in the heart of the feywild. fighting against all the odds and surviving just to spite you. i once won the the richard taylor poetry award. i think that’s when i peaked.

Reason for signing up:

because it’s easier to make my head feel like home when i’m writing.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 the main ingredient in a love potion is spearmint
June 02, 2019 hyrsam, the prince of fools
June 03, 2019 (re)memento mori
June 04, 2019 red sky in mo(u)rning.
June 05, 2019 a brief science lesson in which i learn about black holes
June 06, 2019 the feywild system
June 07, 2019 tiefling
June 08, 2019 revivify
June 09, 2019 a quest
June 10, 2019 storm giant
June 11, 2019 the persecution of pride
June 12, 2019 healer
June 13, 2019 druidcraft
June 17, 2019 love
June 18, 2019 maid of orléans
June 19, 2019 same shit-different day
June 20, 2019 when you ride off into the sunset alone

Kendall Brooke

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 4:03pm

Bio:

just a 22 year old girl who loves poetry

Reason for signing up:

I haven’t written poems since high school. I’d like to try again. :)

Poems:
June 04, 2019 Graduation Day
June 05, 2019 good woman
June 06, 2019 child’s play
June 07, 2019 love hurts
June 09, 2019 June 8th
June 11, 2019 Mom
June 17, 2019 untitled

Kerfoot

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 9:08am

Poems:
June 02, 2019 PUNK ROCK RATING
June 03, 2019 View Askewed
June 05, 2019 Getting in the pool
June 27, 2019 I’ve Been
June 28, 2019 Thoughts in a crew neck

Kim Kayne Shaver

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 3:28pm

Bio:

Kim lives in fairy tale cottage in Louisville, KY. Has been reading serious autobiographies about women leaders lately—Sandra Day O’connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Madelyn Albright—taking a break from poetry upon completion (finally) of her MFA in poetry from Spalding University in June 2018–yeah!

Reason for signing up:

I love the challenge! And, think the time limit will make poems free of fear & editing! More spontaneous & original!

Poems:
June 01, 2019 June First
June 27, 2019 Ants
June 28, 2019 Sunday Dinner
June 29, 2019 June 29
June 30, 2019 There’s A Lot I Don’t Know

Kimber Gray

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 @ 11:45am

Bio:

Dancing. Always dancing.

Poems:
June 03, 2019 For AM
June 04, 2019 There’s No Such Thing as Toxic Masculinity
June 05, 2019 I Want to Stop Crying in Public
June 06, 2019 Wilt
June 07, 2019 There’s No Such Thing as Toxic Masculinity 2
June 08, 2019 Another Stupid Poem About How Terrible Men Make Me Feel
June 09, 2019 Food Fight
June 10, 2019 Millennials Are Killing the
June 19, 2019 Moving Magnets While Waiting for a Latte

Kris Gillis

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 @ 9:29am

Bio:

Teacher, traveler, writer, spy

Reason for signing up:

Lexpomo is a treat every year. Great writing community!

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Today Poetry Is
June 02, 2019 Today Poetry Is
June 03, 2019 Today Poetry Is
June 04, 2019 Today Poetry Is
June 05, 2019 Today Poetry Is
June 06, 2019 Today Poetry Is
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June 09, 2019 Today Poetry Is
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June 16, 2019 Today Poetry Is
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June 19, 2019 Today Poetry Is
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June 25, 2019 Today Poetry Is
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June 28, 2019 Today Poetry Is
June 29, 2019 Today Poetry Is

Lauren

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 5:03pm

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 Jackson, "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Peggy
June 05, 2019 Men
June 09, 2019 Home life

Larry Wheeler

Sunday, May 26, 2019 @ 8:15pm

Bio:

Still mostly over it all, but grateful nonetheless.

Reason for signing up:

Yet again, the persistence of a certain Mr.Lally.

Poems:
June 05, 2019 Life in Another Century
June 06, 2019 The Process
June 12, 2019 Reduction
June 13, 2019 A Matter of Scale
June 17, 2019 The Palace of Inertia
June 19, 2019 Brief Encounters With Members of the Chinese Zodiac Gang in the Year of the Iron Dog, 1970
June 23, 2019 The King Takes a Leak
June 24, 2019 Wonder
June 25, 2019 Foreign Aid
June 28, 2019 Pops
June 29, 2019 Hybrid Vigor?
June 30, 2019 One Finger's Worth

Laura Foley

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 10:57am

Bio:

I think I did my headshot wrong.

Reason for signing up:

Because signing down makes it hard to read.

Website:

soundcloud.com/laura-foley-6

Poems:
June 01, 2019 this time next year
June 02, 2019 twoowt
June 03, 2019 Ode to a Toaster Strudel
June 04, 2019 BIG PHILLY SCREWS THE POOCH
June 05, 2019 south of salina
June 06, 2019 Normandy
June 07, 2019 Can't We All Just Get Along?
June 08, 2019 get off my lawn
June 09, 2019 Countdown
June 10, 2019 bacon
June 11, 2019 summer storn
June 12, 2019 Aunt Peggy
June 13, 2019 third floor window
June 14, 2019 up
June 15, 2019 refuge
June 16, 2019 HEADLINE: LOCAL POET-PHYSICIST DESCRIBES NATURE (FROM QUANTUM FIELD TO GENERAL RELATIVITY) IN SINGLE WORD; SCIENTISTS STUNNED. WORD SHARED, BELOW!
June 17, 2019 don't sit under my apple tree
June 18, 2019 break of day
June 19, 2019 '77
June 20, 2019 maker of all things
June 21, 2019 Ragin' Redneck (round 'bout the key of G)
June 22, 2019 No Fighting At the Table
June 23, 2019 runningoutofspace
June 24, 2019 a little blue tree
June 25, 2019 My Current Mobile Sensory Input and Material Manipulation Unit
June 26, 2019 Dime Store Novel
June 27, 2019 melancholy border collie
June 28, 2019 Possibility
June 29, 2019 The Fever
June 30, 2019 Things End

carrotman

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 12:42am

Bio:

Leahna is a fourteen year old girl. She’s carefree and easy going, but allows the thoughts of fear control her. She wants you to know that sometimes the people late to the party are the best ones you’ll meet!

Reason for signing up:

I love writing. Also a friend told me too so why not!

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Remember me
June 05, 2019 Clarity
June 06, 2019 I am undone by you.
June 07, 2019 parenthood is optional to the lucky, but as a receiver, a death sentence.
June 08, 2019 Don’t wake me.
June 09, 2019 I now believe in my future.
June 10, 2019 Internal hell, punishment for my hopeless sin.
June 11, 2019 Untouchable, to a working faith.
June 14, 2019 Pureness met with pain
June 17, 2019 Power held in a glass of hysteria
June 18, 2019 Bee
June 19, 2019 Mismarried religion
June 21, 2019 Cut off my two fingers, take away my gag reflex.
June 22, 2019 Dry hope in a flooded mind.

Lennart Lundh

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 @ 7:56pm

Bio:

Lennart Lundh is a poet, short-fictionist, historian, and photographer. His work has appeared internationally since 1965.

Reason for signing up:

Because poetry is needed.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Mother's Days
June 02, 2019 His finger twitches
June 03, 2019 I know that
June 04, 2019 Yes, I'm the woman
June 05, 2019 Your memories keep a rope
June 06, 2019 I saw your hand
June 07, 2019 My freshly minted ghost
June 08, 2019 A Different Memorial Day
June 09, 2019 A man walks into a square
June 10, 2019 Music videos
June 11, 2019 If you see
June 12, 2019 You, with your hair
June 13, 2019 If you take the path
June 14, 2019 We watch TV
June 15, 2019 Photos Taken in Evidence on the Streets of Two Capitals
June 16, 2019 What Shall I Be?
June 17, 2019 Poster: Circle Graphic
June 18, 2019 Alchemies
June 19, 2019 Childhoods Ended
June 20, 2019 Whispers
June 21, 2019 Job Descriptions
June 22, 2019 Alpha and Omega
June 23, 2019 memento si
June 24, 2019 As the years passed
June 25, 2019 She sits
June 26, 2019 There was a woman
June 27, 2019 They could be bathers
June 28, 2019 Whispering voices circle
June 29, 2019 Her hands delight
June 30, 2019 The shops are dark

Linda Bryant

Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 2:04pm

Bio:

Linda Bryant is a journalist and poet who recently relocated from Nashville, TN. She's been published in newspapers and journals but poetry has always been her first love. She recently quit journalism, bought acreage near Berea and is committed to writing poetry on a new level. She hopes to develop her 30-acre spot in Berea into a writer's retreat.

Reason for signing up:

I want to jump into the writing scene. I love the discipline of a daily writing challenge. I only have two friends here so far.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Goodbye haiku
June 02, 2019 Fixing my Sight
June 03, 2019 First Marriage
June 04, 2019 When You Recover
June 05, 2019 Haibun for the Sex Instinct
June 06, 2019 What You Are
June 07, 2019 Water's Edge
June 08, 2019 Executive Instructions
June 09, 2019 Tool Kit
June 10, 2019 Moving Back to the City
June 11, 2019 Balandi Village
June 12, 2019 The Great Recession
June 13, 2019 Ode to the Void
June 14, 2019 Ode to the Eastern Redbud
June 15, 2019 The Lost Frogs of Haiti
June 16, 2019 Frayed Blue Jesus
June 17, 2019 Spit Pearls from Trouble
June 18, 2019 Three Reasons to Live Near a River
June 19, 2019 Haiku at Dusk
June 20, 2019 Retirement
June 21, 2019 Hypnagogic State
June 22, 2019 Hello & Goodbye
June 23, 2019 Water’s Edge II
June 24, 2019 Mae Champagne’s Legacy
June 25, 2019 Body Memory
June 26, 2019 At This Hour
June 27, 2019 Imperfect Ending
June 28, 2019 Before Coffee
June 29, 2019 Reliquary
June 30, 2019 Contraposition

Linda Caldwell

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 @ 12:57pm

Bio:

Poet and playwright

Reason for signing up:

Love participating

Poems:
June 10, 2019 Laurie

Lark

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 9:26am

L.M.H.

Friday, May 17, 2019 @ 10:43pm

Bio:

Lisa is a high school English teacher in Lexington. When she isn’t teaching, she can be found hiking, cheering on her son at hockey games, or plotting the next stamp for her passport.

Reason for signing up:

I love that summer starts with this amazing community of writers.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Surrender
June 07, 2019 Still Searching in 2019
June 08, 2019 The F-Word
June 09, 2019 Two Sides of the Story
June 13, 2019 Aunt JoAnn
June 19, 2019 Anticipation
June 21, 2019 The Longest Day
June 22, 2019 The Definition of Insanity
June 25, 2019 Questions

Liz Prather

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 @ 9:07am

Bio:

Liz Prather teaches writing at Lafayette High School.

Reason for signing up:

I no longer know what to do with my days.

Poems:
June 03, 2019 Nobody Told Us
June 07, 2019 Yard Sale in the Rain
June 12, 2019 A Series of Nows

LizzieLooWho

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 10:14pm

Bio:

She was born amongst the honeysuckles and blackberries. Her heart is filled with laughter and Her kisses taste of Bourbon...

Reason for signing up:

Why not. Sounds fun.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Lori
June 02, 2019 Aurora
June 03, 2019 Reds
June 04, 2019 Maroons Reds and Deep Navy Blues
June 05, 2019 My Magic
June 06, 2019 Plenty
June 08, 2019 Strawberry candies
June 10, 2019 Deeper than Six Feet
June 11, 2019 Playground Games

Lori Taylor

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 3:22pm

Bio:

Lori is a four-time LexPoMo participant, writer, mother of three daughters, wife, lover of coffee, alone time, office supplies, organization, sparkly things, and creativity. She is revising a NaNo WriMo novel, devising plans for future projects, and improvising in the in-between.

Reason for signing up:

The LexPoMo community is a talented bunch of attentive life-living sparks of light who not only write beauty and horror, but encourage and support each other in the process. I enjoy being a part of it.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 C'mon Baby, Do the LexPoMotion
June 02, 2019 Blushin’
June 03, 2019 Now
June 04, 2019 Now I Lay Me Down to...Wait! Grab a Pen!
June 05, 2019 Me Too
June 06, 2019 Comfort and Chaos Collide Inside
June 07, 2019 Fangirling

Lucy James

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 7:33pm

Reason for signing up:

I love writing, but sometimes life gets in the way. This is a promise to myself to write more and to be connected to other poets.

M. Carter

Friday, May 24, 2019 @ 1:01pm

Bio:

McKenna Carter is eighteen and trying to figure it all out.

Reason for signing up:

Poetry is fun and so are challenges, and while having too much of a good thing (like mixing chocolate and yogurt) can become a bad thing, I'm excited to participate!

Poems:
June 13, 2019 Pretty Peach Girlie
June 14, 2019 half right

M. R. Heltzel

Thursday, May 9, 2019 @ 7:57am

Reason for signing up:

A friend mentioned it

Poems:
June 29, 2019 Evan

M.L. Burt

Saturday, May 25, 2019 @ 11:55pm

Poems:
June 29, 2019 The Smiling Female

Maddie Coleman

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 11:05am

Bio:

Live your life to the fullest:)

Reason for signing up:

Me and my friends all wanted to do it together!

Website:

Mbcolemanphotography.weebly.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Every time.
June 02, 2019 Weird, Beautiful
June 03, 2019 An Open Field
June 04, 2019 Life Hits You
June 05, 2019 I need a minute.
June 06, 2019 Somewhat Okay
June 07, 2019 My Train, My Journey, Me
June 08, 2019 Hang On
June 09, 2019 Blast Off
June 10, 2019 I hope you’re hoping the same
June 11, 2019 Astro-Lincoln
June 12, 2019 A Week’s Worth Of Rain
June 13, 2019 A Black and White Cat
June 14, 2019 Crazy Fool
June 15, 2019 The Simple Things
June 16, 2019 Mother Nature, the artist
June 17, 2019 A Sun-Stained Hideaway
June 18, 2019 “Chin up, charge the mountain”
June 19, 2019 Live Now
June 20, 2019 Some Days
June 21, 2019 My Greatest Best Friend
June 22, 2019 The Sunset Over The Bridge
June 23, 2019 The Knights’ Battles
June 24, 2019 Reach, Soar, Wonder.
June 25, 2019 Out Here
June 26, 2019 Stay or Leave
June 27, 2019 Nights Like These
June 28, 2019 Demolition Derby
June 29, 2019 The County Fair
June 30, 2019 Continuing

Madeleine Hamilton

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 6:11pm

Bio:

some tooth and nail kinda shit

Poems:
June 01, 2019 sewing feather to bone
June 02, 2019 crying that i'm tired of hating myself to my boyfriend at 1 am
June 03, 2019 pluck
June 04, 2019 she's talking to her ribs again
June 09, 2019 Cetacean Stranding
June 18, 2019 Skin Care is Self Care
June 20, 2019 like screaming in a library
June 21, 2019 I’m looking at a burning house and know I have to go inside
June 22, 2019 untitled

Madison Miller

Sunday, May 5, 2019 @ 12:23pm

Bio:

Madison is a current student at UKY. She’s pursuing a dual degree in Psychology and Gender Women’s Studies with certificates in Universal Design, Sexuality Studies, and Social Science Research. That says too much about her inability to settle on anything. Outside of school she spends most of the time asking her partner for a dog.

Reason for signing up:

Good question. Why do I do anything?

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Two Sides (at least)
June 03, 2019 OCD in Three Parts
June 04, 2019 For the Woman Standing on the Overpass at 4 P.M.
June 05, 2019 Generational Acrobats
June 06, 2019 The Newest Testament
June 07, 2019 Seven
June 08, 2019 Eight
June 09, 2019 Nine
June 10, 2019 Ten
June 11, 2019 Ode to the Wishing Well
June 12, 2019 Twelve
June 13, 2019 Late Bloomer
June 14, 2019 Fourteen is Not Quite Good
June 15, 2019 For What Feels Like Fifteen Hours
June 16, 2019 A Letter to my Great Grandfather’s Front Lawn
June 17, 2019 untitled
June 18, 2019 Advice to Myself at Eighteen:
June 19, 2019 Amnesia
June 20, 2019 A Little Love Poem
June 21, 2019 Hesitations
June 22, 2019 The Cosmic Joke
June 23, 2019 I came, I saw, I shit my pants.
June 24, 2019 Sacrament
June 25, 2019 In Her Image
June 26, 2019 Two Bedrooms and a Walk-Away Closet
June 27, 2019 Siri Knows More About Me Than My Therapist
June 28, 2019 Insomnia
June 29, 2019 Not So Silent Prayers
June 30, 2019 Donald the Uber Driver as a Drunk Poem

Maeve Hoppen

Friday, May 3, 2019 @ 3:41pm

Bio:

Maeve is a senior undergrad at UK pursuing a degree in linguistics with minors in voice and cognitive science. She loves cats, music, and all things words.

Reason for signing up:

I fell out of practice with writing five years ago and this is my good-faith effort to get back into the ring (whether I’ll stick to it, we’ll see).

Maggie Brewer

Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 1:52pm

Bio:

I live with my amazing wife and teach kids to remember the past.

Reason for signing up:

What's June without poetry?

Poems:
June 18, 2019 With Love From Harlan
June 19, 2019 Another Father's Day And You Are Still Dead
June 20, 2019 Cuyahoga (Ky-Yuh-Ho-Guh)
June 21, 2019 Sun Salutation
June 23, 2019 What Side Were They On?
June 25, 2019 The Shock
June 28, 2019 People You Meet While Waiting in Line at the DMV
June 29, 2019 Inheritance
June 30, 2019 Enlightenment

Maggie Rue Hess

Sunday, May 12, 2019 @ 3:29pm

Bio:

In the midst of geographical transition, Maggie is a high school English teacher. During her "summer off" (cue the smirks of educators everywhere), she will direct a Young Writers' Camp in PA. Maggie loves trying new food, discovering face masks, and cuddling her pups.

Reason for signing up:

Did it last year, doin' it again!

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Two Wishes
June 02, 2019 Sun Revelation
June 03, 2019 I Love You Like the Mountains
June 04, 2019 More Hands
June 05, 2019 Whatcha Got
June 06, 2019 Apology to a Dropped Hair Tie
June 07, 2019 Redux
June 08, 2019 Ways To Be Shiny
June 09, 2019 Playing Poker at My Fiance's Family Reunion
June 10, 2019 Acrostic for Scruffy
June 11, 2019 Servin' Tennis
June 12, 2019 Wyoming Drive
June 13, 2019 Just North of Little Rock
June 14, 2019 Getting a Coke Slurpee at the Gas Station
June 15, 2019 The Trouble with Moving
June 17, 2019 The Trouble with Moving (Part 2)
June 18, 2019 The Trouble with Moving (Part 3)
June 20, 2019 A Song for Zamira
June 21, 2019 Greek Statue
June 23, 2019 Word Salad
June 29, 2019 Magnet Poem 1
June 30, 2019 What I Love You Means

Malinda O’Quinn

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 9:46pm

Bio:

Malinda O’Quinn is the mother of a small, beautiful weirdo and the wife of an awkward purveyor of endless fun facts.
She is an enthusiast of cats and black bean brownies.

Reason for signing up:

Bronson

Poems:
June 04, 2019 untitled
June 05, 2019 Stories I Tell Myself About an Unknown Mother
June 06, 2019 General Electric Washing Machine Model #WJSR2079B3WW
June 07, 2019 Intro to DSD Conditions Through Parenting
June 11, 2019 turdbreath

Margaret Russell

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 @ 10:04pm

Bio:

Margaret is a musician and filmmaker from Lexington. Her work is concerned with navigating her queer/trans identity, dysphoria, depression, intimacy, and loneliness.

Reason for signing up:

I don't know what else to do.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 It comes to me at night
June 07, 2019 Road Work 1 Mile
June 17, 2019 Lighter Days
June 30, 2019 untitled

Mari

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 7:54am

Bio:

Mari is a member of Old Washington Wordsmith's...she enjoys expressing her voice through poetry! Mari found receptive ears within the Wordsmith's group!

Reason for signing up:

Listening to what others have to say through poetry is invigorating!

Poems:
June 07, 2019 The Voice of Change
June 08, 2019 Bind and Loose
June 18, 2019 I Love
June 19, 2019 Life
June 20, 2019 "The Ates"
June 22, 2019 Know
June 25, 2019 Is it the Truth
June 29, 2019 The Story

Marta Dorton

Friday, May 10, 2019 @ 1:30pm

Bio:

A Lexington-based visual artist working in acrylic painting, printmaking and mix media that enjoys writing memoir and poetry.

Reason for signing up:

I need the daily prompt to create a set of words on paper.

Poems:
June 26, 2019 Note to Ten Year Old Self
June 29, 2019 LifeJolt

Mary Allen

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 @ 10:59pm

Bio:

When I grow up, I want to be a poet.

Reason for signing up:

I'm practicing.

Poems:
June 24, 2019 Delusion
June 25, 2019 ****
June 26, 2019 My Library Exceeds Shelf Space
June 27, 2019 Alas,
June 28, 2019 Triolet - from lines by Kristofferson

M L Stephens

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 @ 8:31am

Bio:

Mary Lou is a mother, grandmother, hospital chaplain and an extroverted introvert.

Reason for signing up:

The challenge of thinking and writing creatively and reflecting on life as it is and could be is inspiring.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Gone Missing
June 02, 2019 Ashes
June 03, 2019 Dawn
June 04, 2019 Such Is Life
June 06, 2019 Empathy
June 07, 2019 Labyrinth
June 09, 2019 Neither Here Nor There
June 11, 2019 The Whisper
June 13, 2019 Retirement
June 15, 2019 Asking
June 19, 2019 The Most Important Things
June 23, 2019 Seeking Peace
June 24, 2019 Pondering Pinkness
June 25, 2019 Ubuntu
June 28, 2019 Possibilites and Potential

Marz Corbeau

Friday, May 10, 2019 @ 2:27pm

Bio:

Marz Corbeau is a writer and musician living in Lexington. They enjoy writing about tarot, gender, relationships, Appalachia, and disability. When not writing they’re can be found baking bread for folks they love.

Reason for signing up:

They signed up to explore poetry and challenge their deeply held belief they “just aren’t a poet”. They’re here to face their literary fears.

Maya Pemble

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 9:24am

Bio:

Maya is a rising senior in high school and an aspiring poet. She loves travel, cannoli and is constantly lost in thought.

Reason for signing up:

4th year with lexpomo, hoping for more years after that

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Woman In The Green Shirt
June 03, 2019 Two Squirrels
June 04, 2019 Irises
June 05, 2019 Night In Coldspring
June 06, 2019 My Heart
June 07, 2019 Running, Running Out Of Time
June 09, 2019 For A Moment, She Stood Still
June 10, 2019 Moon Salve
June 11, 2019 Stripped Away
June 12, 2019 Useless Beings
June 15, 2019 I Saw You, Thalassa
June 25, 2019 Foxes

meadow dawn

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 12:34am

Bio:

Named by her father, who once was an avid climber, during an expedition to the Grand Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. On a particularly trying start to the day, his coffee froze solid in an insulated thermos while tackling the first of the two peaks planned for that day, so he took a respite in the Meadow. There he stretched in the soft grass, amongst confetti spread flowers and watched a deer take slow sips from a musical stream, just feet away.

Reason for signing up:

lexpomo has become a signpost that marks the start of summer - i’m all for it

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Patrick via Constantino

Melissa Borries

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 @ 7:05pm

Bio:

Melissa is a writer from Southern Illinois living in Southern Indiana.

Reason for signing up:

Katerina!

Melissa Olson

Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 4:20pm

Bio:

Melissa is a designer and photographer from Akron, Ohio. She has a passion for arts education and works as the Manager of Student Affairs at the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron. She spends one week each summer in Kentucky volunteering as a counselor at an arts camp, the friends she has made there encouraged her to participate this year!

Reason for signing up:

I want to write more and stress less; get things out of my brain and into the world.

Website:

icatchfoxes.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 This is not a haiku. That is not a chicken wing.
June 02, 2019 Simple song
June 03, 2019 i was in no mood
June 04, 2019 did you set the alarm?
June 05, 2019 don't they call that anxiety?
June 06, 2019 for life and all that goes with it
June 07, 2019 Dusk
June 08, 2019 Flyover
June 10, 2019 Commuter
June 11, 2019 better safe than sorry
June 12, 2019 ignorance is bliss
June 18, 2019 Phoebe of Cenchreae
June 19, 2019 how many days left
June 24, 2019 a distant comfort
June 27, 2019 expectation

Melva Sue Priddy

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 12:00pm

Bio:

Melva writes about growing up and living in KY. She lives on the outskirts of Lexington, loves her garden and grandchildren. And she loves poetry.

Reason for signing up:

I love doing this every year.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 When You’re Unease Is Not Easy
June 02, 2019 Today’s Moon Sign Indicates a Day to Kill Pests
June 03, 2019 Life: A Bowl of Cooked Romas
June 04, 2019 The River Is a Wondrous Machine
June 05, 2019 Straw Leaves
June 06, 2019 Summer Storm Stretch
June 07, 2019 The Coffin, Paper
June 08, 2019 Prayed for Rain Arrives
June 09, 2019 Between Rains, The Sun Shines
June 10, 2019 And Mr. Man Aint Going To Do It
June 13, 2019 What Happens When I Do Research
June 15, 2019 People Used to Say: Shut the Door! Did You Grow up in a Barn?
June 16, 2019 June Haiku
June 18, 2019 Hot Humid Kentucky Days Demand Ice-Cream
June 19, 2019 My Common Fig Blossomed
June 20, 2019 Hot Humid Kentucky Days Demand Ice-Cream
June 22, 2019 If Ever There Was a Writer’s Chocolate
June 23, 2019 Hot Humid Kentucky Days Demand Ice-Cream
June 25, 2019 Straw O Straw
June 27, 2019 Tender Tendrils
June 28, 2019 The Sun Is A God Unto Herself
June 29, 2019 Paradise in My Hands
June 30, 2019 Breakfast on a Plate with Spoon

Douglas Self

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 4:58pm

Bio:

Is a poet.

Reason for signing up:

The universe commanded me.

Poems:
June 07, 2019 A Month or So
June 12, 2019 Contamination is trending upward
June 14, 2019 Brain Cells & Tide Pods
June 18, 2019 I.E.D.
June 22, 2019 Til Death do Us part

michael frank

Thursday, May 16, 2019 @ 11:38am

Bio:

henry likes fencing cooking and video games.

Michael Moloney

Sunday, June 16, 2019 @ 4:08pm

Bio:

Late to the game this year but happy to be included nonetheless.

Reason for signing up:

Sometimes I have things to say and think it would be nice to say them to strangers.

Poems:
June 16, 2019 untitled
June 28, 2019 If I Had To Guess

Michayla Gatsos

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 8:32pm

Bio:

Michayla is a recently-graduated senior from Lafayette High School. She enjoys writing with her dad and listening to The Beatles.

Poems:
June 03, 2019 Bowling Green
June 07, 2019 Graduation Celebration
June 19, 2019 Anxiety and Irrational Thoughts
June 20, 2019 oh my god
June 21, 2019 Costa Rica
June 27, 2019 How I Knew Something About Myself Was Off

michelle johnson

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 10:20pm

Michelle Knickerbocker

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 1:44am

Bio:

43, cook, poet, wife, Aspie, pet mom Funny, witty, generous, loyal, queer Opalescent Cobalt Water Dragon

Reason for signing up:

It's June. That's what we do in June. Write poems!!

Poems:
June 21, 2019 Thank You, Talor Dosey
June 23, 2019 Wait for it
June 25, 2019 43
June 28, 2019 Possibility
June 29, 2019 I see us
June 30, 2019 Epicurean

Mike Wilson

Sunday, May 12, 2019 @ 11:43am

Bio:

Mike Wilson has had work published in small magazines including Appalachian Heritage, Solidago, Frogpond, Cagibi, Stoneboat, and The Aurorean.

Reason for signing up:

It's fun

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Reincarnation
June 02, 2019 Middle School Forever
June 03, 2019 Star-crossed
June 04, 2019 Bird on a Wire
June 05, 2019 If St. Anthony Were a Poet
June 06, 2019 Stone Cold
June 07, 2019 Walking the Dogs Without Hank
June 08, 2019 Learn to Be Still
June 09, 2019 I Fought the Law and the Law Won
June 10, 2019 Hubris
June 11, 2019 Climate Change
June 12, 2019 Thermostat
June 13, 2019 Guilty as Charged
June 14, 2019 Thanksgiving with a Fin
June 15, 2019 Thanksgiving Observed
June 16, 2019 Thanksgiving Explained
June 17, 2019 Tired of Anger
June 18, 2019 Dealing from the Bottom of the Deck
June 19, 2019 Quixote
June 20, 2019 Immigrant
June 21, 2019 The Eyes Have It
June 22, 2019 Please Shut Up
June 23, 2019 The Cloud
June 24, 2019 At the Edge of the Wallow
June 25, 2019 The Universe is a Friendly Place
June 26, 2019 Loving
June 27, 2019 Spooning
June 28, 2019 Being Here
June 29, 2019 Minstrel Boy
June 30, 2019 Lessons from LEXPOMO 2019

Misty

Friday, May 10, 2019 @ 11:48am

Bio:

Misty Skaggs is a barefooted college drop, a poet and author, a caretaker and an artist/activist who currently resides far from town at the end of a gravel road. if you like what you read here, think about ordering Skaggs' first full length poetry collection, Planted by the Signs, available now from Ohio University Press - https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Planted+by+the+Signs

Reason for signing up:

I'm determined to finish the whole month this go 'round!

Website:

ohioswallow.com/book/Planted+by+the+Signs

Poems:
June 01, 2019 wet and obstinate
June 02, 2019 fix this
June 03, 2019 a weak moment
June 04, 2019 confidence in full bloom
June 05, 2019 she's hopeful
June 06, 2019 lonely after eleven
June 07, 2019 mad at the world
June 08, 2019 laundry day
June 13, 2019 sweet enough to melt
June 18, 2019 old dogs
June 19, 2019 hateful hoodoo
June 29, 2019 i might float off
June 30, 2019 waiting for a storm

Monster Fish

Thursday, May 16, 2019 @ 10:46am

Reason for signing up:

I was interested in learning about poetry and the ways of writing interesting stories and learning how to get better at writing poetry

Morghan Fuller

Friday, May 3, 2019 @ 4:56pm

Bio:

Morghan is an educator, milkshake connoisseur, and a fat queer poet. She has attempted LexPoMo many times, and completed it successfully once.

Reason for signing up:

I write best when prompted and inspired, and I’m hoping to get back into the flow I once had.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 A Letter to My Girlfriend’s Mom
June 03, 2019 Perspective.

Mya Sophia

Friday, May 3, 2019 @ 11:50am

Bio:

Mya Sophia is a Teen Howl Poet, Young Women Writer’s Project participant, and third place winner of the KSPS Student Poetry Contest. She is passionate about social justice especially in her poetry and is also a writer of prose. When she is not writing she enjoys many forms of performing arts, books, and history.

Reason for signing up:

Because I would like to expand my horizon and write more poetry.

Poems:
June 07, 2019 Demanding
June 08, 2019 Cool
June 09, 2019 Joy
June 27, 2019 Summer

N. M. Z.

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 @ 8:30am

Reason for signing up:

I need to get them poems outta my system.

Poems:
June 05, 2019 Love
June 06, 2019 Hourglass
June 08, 2019 The speed of 186292 miles per second

Nancy Jentsch

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 2:04pm

Bio:

Nancy Jentsch has taught German and Spanish for over thirty-five years at Northern Kentucky University. She will retire in 2020 and looks forward to spending more time writing poetry and sharing the art of words with others. 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 (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her Facebook writer’s page is https://www.facebook.com/NancyJentschPoet/. When she is not writing or teaching, she enjoys hiking, bird watching, knitting and Sudoku.

Reason for signing up:

There's no way I'd rather spend the month of June.

Website:

jentsch8.wixsite.com/my-site

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Virginia Beach, June 1, 2019
June 03, 2019 June Day
June 05, 2019 Hidden
June 08, 2019 Pinned
June 10, 2019 Where Is the Poem in This Slate Gray Day?
June 12, 2019 Stitched
June 13, 2019 Poetic Reality Glasses
June 15, 2019 Holy Moments
June 17, 2019 Knitted
June 19, 2019 Waterfall
June 21, 2019 Paradise Today

Nell Whitman

Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 5:35pm

Bio:

Nell Whitman won a 3rd grade poetry contest with a poem entitled “Nature is Something I Love.” This budding Mary Oliver has been teaching English ever since. Writing poetry daily is most definitely a “dream deferred.”

Reason for signing up:

I want to challenge myself to write daily.

nettie farris

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 4:48pm

Bio:

n writes poems.

Reason for signing up:

to write poems

Website:

nettie.edublogs.org

Poems:
June 03, 2019 Mediterranean Mourning Poem
June 14, 2019 I Remember Nothing
June 16, 2019 My Favorite Time of Day
June 17, 2019 Little Orange in a Large Blue Bowl
June 18, 2019 Yesterday I Wore a Hat
June 19, 2019 Continuity
June 21, 2019 Oliver Saks Is Of No Help At All
June 23, 2019 Ambivalence
June 24, 2019 Moonbear's Birthday
June 27, 2019 Sometimes All I Need Is To Read the Menu

Nina

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 10:51pm

Bio:

Nina is a finance MBA with a serious interest in the cultivation of English roses. When she isn't raising them from bare roots, she is painting them in watercolors. And singing them in verse.

Reason for signing up:

Because I love poetry.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 A Double Haiku about Origami
June 02, 2019 A Wooly Bear Caterpillar's Fashion Show
June 03, 2019 My Fig-Tree of Imagination
June 05, 2019 At the South Entrance of Dakota Building in New York City
June 16, 2019 A Prayer for the Bridge of Magpies
June 17, 2019 On a Summer's Night

Nollie Palmer

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 2:04pm

Bio:

Nollie is a visual artist who can be found at @halfwitchdisaster on instagram.

Reason for signing up:

Round 2

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Goldseason
June 02, 2019 Fireproof Cathedral
June 03, 2019 Featherheart
June 04, 2019 Sleepblooming
June 05, 2019 Dripwing
June 06, 2019 Sick day
June 07, 2019 Stonebound
June 08, 2019 Locked
June 09, 2019 Drunken
June 10, 2019 Silverwire
June 11, 2019 Shoreline
June 12, 2019 Pactbolster
June 13, 2019 Oracular
June 14, 2019 Freshfaced
June 15, 2019 Untied
June 16, 2019 Hereditary
June 17, 2019 Mothwing
June 18, 2019 Rainladen
June 19, 2019 Homebuilt
June 20, 2019 Nausea
June 21, 2019 Crowperch
June 22, 2019 Unshatter
June 23, 2019 Oilblood
June 24, 2019 Sick day pt. 2
June 25, 2019 Daybearer
June 26, 2019 Brickfoot
June 27, 2019 Gardenprayer
June 28, 2019 Weight
June 30, 2019 Interlock

nrd

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 12:35am

Poems:
June 02, 2019 uninspired
June 05, 2019 Anticipation
June 06, 2019 A Hand on the Road
June 07, 2019 untitled
June 07, 2019 untitled
June 08, 2019 Cliché

Pat Owen

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 10:38am

Bio:

Pat Owen just had her second book of poetry, Orion's Belt at the End of the Drive, published by Accents Publishing.

Reason for signing up:

It helps get me out of bed and to my writing desk!

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Report Card
June 02, 2019 The Rain Goes on Without You
June 03, 2019 Satellite Map International Flight
June 04, 2019 This Date: April 27
June 05, 2019 Installation of the HVAC
June 06, 2019 Arc
June 07, 2019 Hope without Hope
June 08, 2019 Escaping Politics
June 09, 2019 Shady Lady
June 10, 2019 The Contest
June 11, 2019 New Lamp
June 12, 2019 Skin
June 13, 2019 His Hands
June 14, 2019 Lesbians in the Front Pew
June 15, 2019 Ripe
June 16, 2019 In the Dentist Chair
June 17, 2019 Consume
June 18, 2019 Kamala
June 19, 2019 Q&A on Longboat Key
June 20, 2019 Tail End of Summer
June 21, 2019 Liquid Dampness
June 22, 2019 The Spin Class
June 23, 2019 Defined World
June 24, 2019 Fortune Teller
June 25, 2019 Dropped in from Another Century
June 26, 2019 Late Afternoon with Isabelle
June 27, 2019 Living on the River
June 28, 2019 Annunciation
June 29, 2019 Newly-Wed's First Fight
June 30, 2019 The Woman in the Bus Shelter

Patrick Johnson

Sunday, May 12, 2019 @ 1:45pm

Bio:

Patrick Johnson lives and writes in Morehead, Kentucky. He is an instructor in Morehead State University

Reason for signing up:

Poetry writing is always a good thing.

Website:

wayfinderthreads.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Home Place
June 02, 2019 Circle
June 04, 2019 In Our Time
June 05, 2019 Watercolor
June 06, 2019 Seasonal
June 07, 2019 Hunting Shadows
June 09, 2019 Suitcase
June 10, 2019 Family
June 11, 2019 Joyce
June 12, 2019 Video Games
June 14, 2019 Mixed
June 17, 2019 On A Night Like This
June 18, 2019 Rainy Days
June 20, 2019 While Sweeping
June 21, 2019 Japanese knotweed
June 22, 2019 A Good Man
June 24, 2019 Beyond
June 25, 2019 Cornell and Bennington
June 26, 2019 Smile
June 27, 2019 Hills
June 29, 2019 Sehnsucht
June 30, 2019 Glass Surface

Body Baghdad

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 6:09pm

Reason for signing up:

I love lexpomo

Poems:
June 01, 2019 tinderness
June 02, 2019 lost and found
June 03, 2019 city of rainbows
June 05, 2019 Trickle Crown
June 06, 2019 Mr. Right
June 13, 2019 at least
June 15, 2019 *
June 16, 2019 Body Positivity
June 19, 2019 to kill a bug
June 21, 2019 New Reality
June 24, 2019 father's day for a gambling addict
June 26, 2019 the answer
June 29, 2019 thoughts on ice

Patti Miller

Saturday, May 18, 2019 @ 9:32pm

Bio:

Writer. Reader. Maker. Traveler.

Reason for signing up:

I love this community!

Pauletta Hansel

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 @ 8:52am

Bio:

Pauletta Hansel is author of seven poetry collections, including Coal Town Photograph (Dos Madres Press, 2019), Palindrome (Dos Madres Press, 2017), winner of the 2017 Weatherford Award for best Appalachian poetry book and Tangle (Dos Madres Press, 2015). Several poems in her last three books were drafted during LexPoMo. Pauletta is from eastern Kentucky and was Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate (2016- 2018). She is managing editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary publication of Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative.

Reason for signing up:

Because it's time.

Website:

paulettahansel.wordpress.com

Poems:
June 03, 2019 “This is the poem that has been staring at you for some time now.” *
June 06, 2019 Poem Written While Contemplating a Southern Kentucky Grave
June 07, 2019 For Sarah, On the Eve of Her Wedding
June 10, 2019 Today’s poem …
June 12, 2019 Joy
June 24, 2019 Today’s poem...
June 26, 2019 Today’s poem …

Philip Corley

Sunday, May 19, 2019 @ 10:25pm

Bio:

Philip is a Lexington native who has been writing poetry since his high school days, but only started taking it seriously relatively recently. He is also an aspiring novelist with a book series in the works. His focus is on human relationships, the quiet battles that everyone faces, and how we, as individuals and as a community, come together to overcome these issues.

Reason for signing up:

A dear friend recently said to me that we sometimes have to pay for the poems we write. I want to make something positive out of the trials life has given.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Moment
June 02, 2019 Specter
June 03, 2019 Some Days Are Just...No
June 04, 2019 Feeling Cynical After a Severe Slight
June 05, 2019 Such a Simple Thing
June 06, 2019 Mo(u)rning Prayer
June 07, 2019 She Texts As If Nothing Has Happened
June 08, 2019 Workhorse
June 09, 2019 Heard a Forgotten Song a New Way
June 10, 2019 My Past Hasn't Learned to Let Me Go Yet
June 11, 2019 White Feather Sniper
June 12, 2019 Workplace Crush
June 13, 2019 Hard at Work and Nothing to Show
June 14, 2019 Glam
June 15, 2019 At Midnight or Beyond
June 16, 2019 Let Me Tell You About the Time I Became an Axe Murderer
June 17, 2019 Usually on Vacation This Time of Year
June 18, 2019 Following France
June 19, 2019 You Were My Sun and It's Been Snowing For So Long
June 20, 2019 The Traditional Answers Aren't Working
June 21, 2019 End of Year Syndrome
June 22, 2019 'Dog Boy' Puts His Two Weeks In
June 23, 2019 Have You Gone to Church Today?
June 24, 2019 All Guys Are Pieces of Shit. But Not You. You're Cool.
June 25, 2019 Workplace Wisdoms (I Kind of Wish my Coworkers Knew)
June 26, 2019 Think Positive and Be Grateful
June 27, 2019 Kindred
June 28, 2019 Prudence Poem
June 29, 2019 Always Loved a Good Storm
June 30, 2019 Yes, It Had to Be a Poem a Day

Philip Sallee

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 11:11am

Reason for signing up:

To enjoy seeing the world from others perspective and to be challenged to share mine.

Website:

thefencemedic.com

Poems:
June 03, 2019 She Found Peace
June 06, 2019 I Held my Breath and Prayed
June 07, 2019 Thoughts of You
June 08, 2019 A Beautiful World
June 09, 2019 Into the Silence
June 10, 2019 Tale of Two Neighbors
June 11, 2019 Old Box of Notes
June 14, 2019 Sunrise
June 28, 2019 Ownership

Piper Morrison

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 10:41pm

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Spring Cleaning
June 02, 2019 Onyx Mourning
June 03, 2019 Vigil for the Sun
June 04, 2019 The Wonder of it All
June 05, 2019 Seven Holds Ten
June 06, 2019 Amnesia
June 07, 2019 Sleepless Sorrow (The Haunting)
June 08, 2019 POOF
June 09, 2019 Kissing Karma
June 10, 2019 Sequel
June 11, 2019 4 of Swords
June 12, 2019 Watching Windows
June 13, 2019 Perspective and Choice
June 14, 2019 Tables
June 15, 2019 High Lean Rules
June 16, 2019 Undressing
June 17, 2019 No Reply Needed
June 18, 2019 Becoming Her
June 19, 2019 Family Snapshot
June 20, 2019 Taps
June 21, 2019 Fundamental Math
June 22, 2019 Get a Grip
June 23, 2019 Still (The Treading)
June 25, 2019 Anamnesis
June 26, 2019 The Genius of Meaning
June 27, 2019 Ain't Nothing New (Receipts)
June 29, 2019 Gone Missing
June 30, 2019 The Stonewall

Rachel

Monday, May 27, 2019 @ 3:01pm

Reason for signing up:

Cuz why not.

Poems:
June 03, 2019 Xiahu Ica Cualtizin
June 21, 2019 City Blanket

Rachel Bollman

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 10:21pm

Bio:

I write and illustrate childrens books. I live on the Ohio side of the river and often wander the Kentucky side, working, writing, drawing, and drinking coffee there.

Reason for signing up:

I want to improve my writing skills by writing every day. I hope to make a little book with my drawings.

Website:

rachelbollman.blogspot.com

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Wild Thing
June 03, 2019 Pill Bug City
June 05, 2019 Camp Whippoorwill
June 06, 2019 Conga Critters
June 07, 2019 At The Flea
June 08, 2019 Oakley
June 11, 2019 Brown County
June 12, 2019 Feline Fur Line
June 17, 2019 Playtime
June 18, 2019 The End
June 22, 2019 Good & Plenty
June 23, 2019 Spiral Bound
June 25, 2019 Picking Daisy
June 26, 2019 Haunt Here

Rachel Khosrowshahi

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 10:39pm

Bio:

Rachel works as a spiritual consultant and writer of broad spectrum nightmares. Read sparingly.

Reason for signing up:

Rehabilitation effort

Poems:
June 01, 2019 untitled
June 03, 2019 untitled
June 05, 2019 untitled
June 06, 2019 Good different.
June 11, 2019 untitled
June 12, 2019 untitled
June 13, 2019 untitled
June 16, 2019 untitled
June 17, 2019 untitled
June 18, 2019 untitled
June 24, 2019 untitled
June 25, 2019 untitled
June 27, 2019 untitled
July 01, 2019 untitled

Ramsi Woodcock

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 10:57pm

Bio:

Ramsi Woodcock teaches law at the University of Kentucky.

Reason for signing up:

That is a very complicated problem with no closed-form solution.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 The Vinegar Sea
June 02, 2019 Liberty or Death
June 30, 2019 Neighbor's Passing
July 01, 2019 The Parkway

Rayny Palmer

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 11:18pm

Bio:

Rayny Palmer is alive.

Reason for signing up:

It serves my two purposes.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 and so
June 02, 2019 a fisherman
June 03, 2019 summer
June 04, 2019 leaves on the ground
June 06, 2019 pontificate upon this
June 07, 2019 something such
June 08, 2019 daybreak
June 09, 2019 on night
June 11, 2019 on the miracle of aging
June 13, 2019 nightstruck
June 14, 2019 June 14 18:38
June 15, 2019 sometimes you're at the end of it and you can't look back yet
June 17, 2019 conversation theories
June 18, 2019 maybe one day
June 20, 2019 with time all things will be better
June 23, 2019 at lake Michigan
June 26, 2019 time and time
June 27, 2019 when the ground is too hot to touch
June 28, 2019 haiku
June 29, 2019 one last night, I wait
June 30, 2019 an end of an era

Rebecca Cavendish

Sunday, May 5, 2019 @ 12:37pm

Bio:

Rebecca Cavendish is in the habit of changing her pseudonym every year or so, with a habitual cycling of legal names every five years or so.

Reason for signing up:

I love Lexington Poetry Month, and I love taking part in it. The other poets are excellent and the yearly Anthologies are lovingly curated. They've maintained and grown this site over the years and I am particularly grateful that poems of previous years are preserved.

Website:

soundcloud.com/neveradreamawakened

beck turney

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 10:58pm

Bio:

rebecca actually knows nothing about poetry, but she is here because she has good friends.

Reason for signing up:

helen. and maybe a little for myself, too.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 june 1

Regan Strehl

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 9:10pm

Bio:

Regan Strehl is currently a student enrolled in Lafayette High School. She spends far too much time in her own head or with her nose stuck in a book. Hopefully Lexpomo will give her enough motivation to interact with living creatures beyond her cat, Alexis.

Reason for signing up:

Because I need to get a publishing credit for SCAPA literary arts. Also, I am intimidated by the success of my peers due to my complete lack of noteworthy accomplishments. I thought this might help with that.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 A Rose of my Mistakes
June 02, 2019 Oceans of Another World
June 03, 2019 Old Men
June 04, 2019 Star Freckled Drift
June 08, 2019 A Lonely Immortal
June 09, 2019 Bubble Death
June 18, 2019 If I Could Pull the Truth Straight From my Veins
June 19, 2019 We See You Everywhere

Rena Nutt

Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 9:52pm

Website:

google.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 The Little Voice Says Maybe
June 02, 2019 untitled
June 03, 2019 untitled
June 04, 2019 Remember the Phrase "Lit Off"
June 05, 2019 In a Perspective Moment
June 06, 2019 Forecasting and
June 08, 2019 untitled
June 09, 2019 Ghosting
June 10, 2019 It rises from the ground like fog
June 11, 2019 Today Was Beautiful, But Still I Missed Winter
June 12, 2019 To Do List
June 13, 2019 Vacay
June 14, 2019 Take a Second, Breathe
June 20, 2019 Returning Home
June 22, 2019 Advice from Pink Flamingos
June 25, 2019 untitled
June 27, 2019 Parity
June 30, 2019 It's Over

Renee Rigdon

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 @ 10:59pm

Bio:

Renee Rigdon -- High Priestess of Sparkle, long-reigning Goofus extraordinaire, and pretty excellent hugger -- is an artist, writer, and volunteer coordinator. She is told she exudes Big Mom Energy.

Reason for signing up:

For the kicks, friend. The kicks.

Poems:
June 01, 2019 I got a new plant today, and the sunlight, through her leaves, is pretty great.
June 02, 2019 Invasive
June 03, 2019 It Wood Bee Nice
June 04, 2019 Heliotropic, or "And he start to runnin' with the church money and the lady at 911 said, 'don't you chase him' and I said, 'oh, I'm chasin' him'."
June 05, 2019 Skerpies
June 06, 2019 Good vibrations
June 07, 2019 In a bowl with milk and too much sugar, it still tastes like childhood, even if it makes me sad.
June 08, 2019 Stolon Glances
June 09, 2019 Inhabitiveness
June 10, 2019 The one with the cockroach
June 11, 2019 (I'm sorry)
June 12, 2019 A poster of a kitten, taped just above your coffee maker, reminding you to
June 13, 2019 Fixing to
June 14, 2019 The other one with blackberries
June 15, 2019 Glowing
June 16, 2019 Let's all go to the lobby and grab ourselves a snack
June 17, 2019 Inflorescence
June 18, 2019 Kids these days
June 19, 2019 Atlas
June 20, 2019 Hello from here to wherever there takes you
June 21, 2019 Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
June 22, 2019 Deep Routes
June 23, 2019 She has a pizza my heart
June 24, 2019 Incontaminate
June 25, 2019 RSVP
June 26, 2019 Ouroboros
June 27, 2019 Once I mention pizza, I basically useless until I have pizza.
June 28, 2019 Bracken
June 29, 2019 Cultured
June 30, 2019 Don't Mind if Ado

Renmeleon

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 @ 1:19pm

Bio:

Under the name Renmeleon, illustrator, author, and designer Ana Maria Selvaggio has been a working creative for more than 30 years. Living a very eclectic, digitally-analog life, Selvaggio has a passion for writing and has worked in and around the publishing industry since the mid 90s as a book designer and editor. Her joys include reading, storyboarding, drawing, and creating worlds from the ground up for her novels. Book trailers and designing associated promotional products are all part of her love of the process. Renmeleon being a “Renaissance Chameleon,” is a true jack-of-all-trades as a surface pattern, paper goods designer, zine maker, and publisher. Selvaggio founded and ran a global art collaborative for 8 years as well as several creative writing groups out of her home in Florida, and has experience teaching in libraries, schools, and museums both online and off. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Berea, KY where she will be teaching her "World Building for Fiction Writers" class twice in July during the Berea Festival of Learnshops. All three are writers.

Reason for signing up:

Since we moved to Kentucky three years ago, I've been interested in joining in. I wrote poetry for years when I was younger but got away from it. Looking forward to rekindling what originally started my writing life.

Website:

renmeleon.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 On Having an Intimate Relationship with my Paper Shredder
June 02, 2019 Welcome Home, Your Highness
June 03, 2019 On Dealing with Orcs
June 05, 2019 Progress
June 06, 2019 Coming Home
June 07, 2019 To the Moon and Back
June 10, 2019 Bringing Home the Past
June 13, 2019 Inner Dialogue

RG

Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 11:42pm

Bio:

I might be the devil's daughter

Reason for signing up:

I have a lot of things to say and I appreciate having an outlet to say them

Poems:
June 08, 2019 In flight

Robin Rahija

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 8:51am

Bio:

Robin LaMer Rahija is the editor of Rabbit Catastrophe Press.

Reason for signing up:

poems are fun!

Website:

robinlamerrahija.com

mtpoet

Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 9:48am

Bio:

Poet, novelist, short story writer, and publisher/editor of Old Seventy Creek Press.

Reason for signing up:

This makes number seven. I usually write under the name of mtpoet.

Website:

oldseventycreekpress.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 As my computer shuts down
June 02, 2019 Young Rabbit
June 03, 2019 I should go
June 04, 2019 When she was dying
June 05, 2019 For a woman
June 06, 2019 I wake to poetry
June 07, 2019 In Guatemals
June 08, 2019 Birds
June 09, 2019 Watching the Rain
June 10, 2019 Silent conversation with a Hummingbird
June 11, 2019 At a boat dock restaurant
June 12, 2019 Seen at night with a former Playboy Playmate
June 13, 2019 Morning
June 14, 2019 The Picture
June 15, 2019 On the porch
June 16, 2019 Threat of a storm
June 17, 2019 At Billy Collins' favorite timt to write
June 18, 2019 Tarnished Gold Frame
June 19, 2019 The sound of rain
June 20, 2019 In this overspray
June 21, 2019 Readers of
June 22, 2019 Hummingbird
June 23, 2019 Man with sign
June 24, 2019 After Midnight
June 25, 2019 Fingers
June 26, 2019 Red sunrise east of Old Seventy Creek
June 27, 2019 Finding Michael Hartnett
June 28, 2019 As a poet
June 29, 2019 Italian Cat House in Rubble
June 30, 2019 Undaunted, I write

Ryan Oppegard

Monday, October 21, 2019 @ 8:36pm

Ryan Curtis

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 @ 11:49pm

Reason for signing up:

I was moved by my family and friends to write. It is a new challege for me

Poems:
June 26, 2019 The Road Ahead
June 27, 2019 Small Boy
June 28, 2019 The Road Behind
June 29, 2019 Fishing
June 30, 2019 I Have Seen Her

s.l.

Thursday, May 30, 2019 @ 11:03pm

Bio:

Graduate student. Educator. Writer. Lover. Sad to say I'm a Louisvillian this time around, but Lexington is always home.

Poems:
June 02, 2019 Along the Falls of the Ohio
June 03, 2019 An Almost Poem
June 12, 2019 Just Ask For It

Sabne Raznik

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 @ 8:02pm

Bio:

Internationally published poet, Community Theatre actress, award-winning artist with three poetry collections - "Following Hope", "Linger To Look", and "Rabbit Hole".

Reason for signing up:

Further honing my craft in community.

Website:

sabneraznik.com

Poems:
June 01, 2019 Wait
June 03, 2019 Just Talk To Me
June 09, 2019 Dusken
June 12, 2019 Retired
June 22, 2019 Static Interference in the Upload
June 25, 2019 Upon Watching Someone Set Themself On Fire

Sam

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 @ 8:50pm

Bio:

Samantha is a recent graduate of UK's BFA program who creates illustrations and animatronic sculptures. This is her last month in Lexington before she leaves for Puppet School.

Reason for signing up:

My body is going to shut down if I don't do something other than play minecraft this month

Website:

instagram.com/samsketchbook/?hl=en

Poems:
June 02, 2019 THE FIRST DOG
June 03, 2019 EDUTAINMENT MINI-GAME SCRIPT
June 04, 2019 DOG CHECKERED LIKE A PICNIC BLANKET
June 05, 2019 Bess Bug
June 06, 2019 The Happi

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