Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 9:36am
Bio:
A. A. Kate is a high school student living with chickens, honeybees, and more. She enjoys writing while sitting beside the chicken coop.
Reason for signing up:
It's LexPoMo time!
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 8:56pm
Bio:
A. Lawrence is a poet who writes to express emotion and hopes that her poetry will help others feel comfortable expressing their own.
Reason for signing up:
To become more confident in writing
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Change
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June 02, 2020
Memories
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June 03, 2020
Never Seen
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June 04, 2020
Matter
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June 05, 2020
It's Quite Nice To See You Again
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June 06, 2020
Goodbyes
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June 07, 2020
Helpless
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June 08, 2020
Distant Piano Notes
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June 09, 2020
The Day Will Come
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June 10, 2020
Swarm
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June 11, 2020
Sunsets and Sunrises
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June 13, 2020
Confident
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June 14, 2020
The Storm
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June 15, 2020
Empathy
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June 16, 2020
Sacrifice
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June 17, 2020
Exhausted
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June 18, 2020
Unhealthy
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June 20, 2020
Adam
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June 21, 2020
Loosened Pebbles
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June 22, 2020
3 am
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June 23, 2020
Soft Spoken
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June 24, 2020
The Truth
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June 25, 2020
An Old Poem Written For Spring
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June 26, 2020
Ink
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June 27, 2020
Rain
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June 28, 2020
Ashes
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June 29, 2020
Chalk
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June 30, 2020
Flies
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 11:58pm
Bio:
Aaron is a Lexington-based poet returning to the craft after a long-standing absence. He hopes you like his writing half as much as his cat enjoys standing on his page demanding adoration.
Reason for signing up:
This is a challenge to myself. I’d like to stop waiting and start writing.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
To-Do List
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June 02, 2020
Procrastination
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June 03, 2020
Sweet Tooth
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June 04, 2020
Fluctuations
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June 05, 2020
Father
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June 06, 2020
The Storefront
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June 07, 2020
(b)Radio
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June 08, 2020
Operating Theater
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June 09, 2020
Daylight
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June 10, 2020
Sunday
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June 11, 2020
A Birthday Poem
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June 12, 2020
Mirage
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June 13, 2020
Of Rain and Resonance
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June 14, 2020
The Snap and the Set
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June 15, 2020
Asphyxiate
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June 16, 2020
Growing Pains
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June 17, 2020
Precipice
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June 18, 2020
Overrun
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June 19, 2020
Ferrocerium
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June 20, 2020
Our Daily Expeditions
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June 21, 2020
Renewal
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June 22, 2020
The Rising of a Season
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June 23, 2020
Excavations
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June 24, 2020
Exploring the Periphery
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June 25, 2020
Songs that Play in Times of Solitude
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June 26, 2020
Interpersonal Drift
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June 27, 2020
Breaking Routine
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June 28, 2020
Echoes of Tradition
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June 29, 2020
報復性熬夜
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June 30, 2020
Rekindling
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 11:31am
Bio:
Abra McCurry is a cat🐈 lover who loves to read and play with her dog Wicket🐶 and her hamster Alexander Hamsterton🐹. She also loves to write and play video games. But she loves her family, friends, and pets the most. She lives in Lexington KY and has two houses full of pets (5 cats Sila, Fada, Pudden, Scardy, and Scraggs. 3 dogs: Merry, Pippen, and Wicket. 2 hamsters: Chaussette (socks in french) and Alexander Hamsterton (known as Alex or Alexander Hamilton)). She is also a brave girl 😈
Reason for signing up:
Because I love poems and when I think of too many I get a headache.
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 9:45pm
Bio:
A guru with a spreadsheet, Austin is learning how to turn formulas into free verse.
Reason for signing up:
Maggie invited me!
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 9:39pm
Bio:
Addison Moore is a teen poet from Central Kentucky that lives on Hippo Campus, Veronica Mars, and iced coffee. Her work has been previously published in FEMSzine out of Boston, MA, and she is known for her chapbook "BEAST & other creatures that live with the trees". She currently serves as an editor for The Bookshelf Mag, a literary magazine out of Los Angeles, CA. She is KY Governors School for the Arts Creative Writing and Slam Camp alumni. She will be attending Vassar College and plans to graduate in the Spring of 2024 with a major in English and minor in Art History. When not writing, Addison embraces her life as a Kentucky girl by spending time on her farm with her horses, cows, and her dog, Jack.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up to join a community of artists like myself, all from the place that I consider home. I believe that poets see the world in a way that o one else does, and I think this lens tis especially valuable when I am seeing how other artists see the place that I call home and see how their lives fit in to the various communities that exist here in Central Kentucky.
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 9:38am
Bio:
Alex Simand lives and works in San Francisco, though he was born in Russia and
grew up in Toronto, which means he exists in a state of constant cultural confusion.
He holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. Alex writes fiction, creative
nonfiction, poetry. His work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, North American
Review, Matador Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Apogee, and other publications.
His short story, Election Cycle, was a winner of the 2017 Best Small Fictions Prize.
Alex is an editor at Meow Meow Pow Pow, a graffiti broadside press.
Reason for signing up:
I just wanna write poems.
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 11:52am
Bio:
Allen Blair's a writer, poet, journalist, and dad from eastern Kentucky. His family make their home in Mt. Sterling, where they try to make a difference. You can follow Allen online @TheTinpoet.
Reason for signing up:
To create my better self.
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 7:16am
Bio:
Alvera is a teacher, mother, and sometimes artist and writer, originally from the mountains of southwestern Virginia, currently residing in Berea, Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
I love to create and to write poetry and some people I know with beautiful creative energy invited.
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Poems:
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June 05, 2020
Prey for the Pen
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June 06, 2020
Liquid Courage
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June 08, 2020
Hi, Anger
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June 09, 2020
Movie Night with My Boy
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June 10, 2020
Selective Hearing
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June 22, 2020
Chasing Hope
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June 23, 2020
Erasing History
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June 24, 2020
Shard-Strewn Waves
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June 29, 2020
Refrain
Friday, May 8, 2020 @ 8:06pm
Bio:
Amanda is a High School English teacher in Lexington, KY who gives all her time to her students and doesn't spend near enough time practicing her own art (poetry). She is thankful for Lexington Poetry Month every year.
Reason for signing up:
To garner continued inspiration from my fellow Lexington-area poets and bask in the relief poetry provides.
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 9:24pm
Bio:
Amanda is part fragile flower, part dandelion. Thriving on kindness and your mom jokes.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
untitled
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June 02, 2020
untitled
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June 03, 2020
Fonder
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June 04, 2020
untitled
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June 05, 2020
untitled
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June 06, 2020
untitled
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June 08, 2020
untitled
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June 09, 2020
untitled
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June 10, 2020
Landmines
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June 11, 2020
untitled
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June 12, 2020
untitled
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June 13, 2020
untitled
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June 14, 2020
untitled
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June 16, 2020
untitled
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 @ 9:25am
Bio:
Amy Richardson was born and raised in Morehead. She grew up running through the hills and walking barefoot through her parents’ garden, letting her imagination go wild. Her love of stories led her to earn a Bachelor’s in English from MSU and MFA in Writing from Spalding University. She currently resides and works on her farm in Carter County.
Reason for signing up:
Motivation to write and courage to share.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Ephemeron
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June 02, 2020
Treadmill
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June 03, 2020
Cataclysm
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June 04, 2020
Correspondence
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June 05, 2020
Reflections
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June 06, 2020
Patchwork
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June 07, 2020
The Bitter End
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June 08, 2020
Candid
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June 09, 2020
Passing Through
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June 10, 2020
Hijacked
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June 11, 2020
Pause
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June 12, 2020
The Calm Before
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June 13, 2020
Fool’s Paradise
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June 14, 2020
Devil-May-Care
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June 15, 2020
Errand in Oz
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June 16, 2020
Balm of the Forest Path
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June 17, 2020
Fumes of Fancy
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June 18, 2020
Cockcrow Daze
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June 19, 2020
Requisite
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June 20, 2020
Resistance
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June 21, 2020
Storm’s a Brewing
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June 22, 2020
Alternate Ending
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June 23, 2020
Flourish
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June 24, 2020
Out of Bounds
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June 25, 2020
Walks in the Garden
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June 26, 2020
Bequest
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June 27, 2020
Gathering Storm
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June 28, 2020
Dusk
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June 29, 2020
Comfort
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June 30, 2020
Time Warp
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 2:02am
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 9:57pm
Bio:
Andrea has been writing for years, but only found the courage to share with others through LexPoMo! She is a nomad at heart, but for now lives in the heart of Kentucky with her husband, 5 children, 3 dogs, 3 cats, 11 chickens, and one duck. She is a dreamer, deep thinker, and hard core romantic at heart.
Reason for signing up:
Because words (poems) are made to be shared & we all need community— especially as creators.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 7:52pm
Bio:
Andrew is not to be taken seriously.
Reason for signing up:
To be continued
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 10:51am
Bio:
Anna is a wife, mom, teacher, and wannabe writer.
Reason for signing up:
A friend encouraged me to participate last year, and although I was intimidated at first, I loved it! It's not very often you get an excuse to be creative :-)
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Poems:
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June 02, 2020
Quarantired
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June 03, 2020
Hold Fast
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June 04, 2020
Neighborhood Bird Detective
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June 05, 2020
'Tis the Season
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June 06, 2020
Before the Rug was Pulled
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June 07, 2020
It Sounds Like Innuendo, But it's Not
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June 10, 2020
June
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June 13, 2020
Waffled Waffles
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June 17, 2020
Dry
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June 19, 2020
Career Change
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June 21, 2020
Father's Day
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June 22, 2020
Mountaintop
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June 29, 2020
Moving On
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 6:28pm
Bio:
Ann V. DeVilbiss has work published or forthcoming in Columbia Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Gertrude, The Maine Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, When the Wolves Stay Quiet, is available from dancing girl press. She lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
Having community and encouragement around daily writing seems like it might motivate me to work toward more finished daily pieces. Plus it sounds like fun!
Saturday, May 9, 2020 @ 9:29pm
Bio:
Anne has always been in the arts - performing as an actress in New York or singing/songwriting in Nashville. Of late, she was teaching classical piano to young children here in Lexington-
Since the world has changed, she has had to reinvent herself - and is now teaching online.
Reason for signing up:
signing up for this always makes me less lonely.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Just So
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June 02, 2020
COLOR
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June 03, 2020
Quarantined
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June 04, 2020
Breakfast
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June 05, 2020
Talking Dishes
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June 06, 2020
Whoops
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June 07, 2020
Food
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June 08, 2020
Changing Sheets
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June 14, 2020
On Writing a Poem a Day
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June 18, 2020
Shopping Online
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June 24, 2020
Thoughts
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 7:19pm
Bio:
Significantly more hippie than last year :)
Saturday, May 2, 2020 @ 4:35pm
Bio:
Whoa, I love poetry.
Reason for signing up:
Because yay poetry!
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:27pm
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, as well as the 2019 LexPoMo anthology. 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:
I had fun with the challenge last year, even though I only succeeded in writing 8 poems. I like the accountability and motivation.
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 5:01pm
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Poems:
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June 02, 2020
2.
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June 03, 2020
Say Their Names
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June 04, 2020
a poem about Star Wars 3 (or “Maybe It’s Easier with a Lightsaber”)
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June 05, 2020
Ichneumon to Crocodile, according to Pliny
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June 06, 2020
3.
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June 07, 2020
untitled
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June 08, 2020
Anat against the enemies of Baʿal
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June 09, 2020
can i just be a ghost already?
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June 17, 2020
for a few survivors more
Friday, May 8, 2020 @ 2:17pm
Bio:
Mom, wife, teacher, poet, singer, newbie uke player.
Reason for signing up:
I like reading others' work, and it helps me be accountable. Anything to help myself generate more poems! Also, peer pressure from McCurry.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Back to Basics
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June 02, 2020
Waves
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June 04, 2020
Nightfall in Lexington
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June 06, 2020
19 Years of Subtext
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June 07, 2020
Basement
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June 08, 2020
Girl Lounging in Chair
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June 10, 2020
Never Enough
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June 11, 2020
Waning Gibbous
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June 14, 2020
Soundtrack
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June 17, 2020
Chicken Shit Casserole
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June 18, 2020
Queen of Hearts
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June 19, 2020
Greentree Rd.
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June 20, 2020
Dinner with Dad
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June 22, 2020
Olive Gloves
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June 23, 2020
Parsley
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June 26, 2020
Stalled
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June 28, 2020
Role Model
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June 29, 2020
High Coos
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 3:33pm
Bio:
Austin is a Senior at the University of Pikeville, where he majors in English with a minor in Theatre.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 @ 8:23am
Bio:
Austin is a North Carolina native, Kentucky resident and occasional writer who doesn't understand poetry at all, but loves to try his hand at it.
Reason for signing up:
To write one more poem than last year, until I catch em all!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Potemkin
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June 02, 2020
Disorientation
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June 03, 2020
Out of Sight, Out of
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June 04, 2020
Kismet
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June 05, 2020
Skipping Record
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June 06, 2020
Flat Circle
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June 07, 2020
Learned Behavior
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June 08, 2020
Yvonne
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June 09, 2020
Long Distance
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June 10, 2020
You Were Right, I Was Wrong
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June 26, 2020
Nothing is Open
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June 27, 2020
Fussbudget
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June 28, 2020
Pop Song (in the tune of Norwegian Wood)
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June 29, 2020
Not a Poem
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June 30, 2020
Didn't Want It Enough
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 @ 12:44pm
Bio:
Elizabeth is the author of three books of poetry published by Accents Publishing, Finishing Line Press and Evening Street Press. Her debut work of fiction, "Summer Tour" was published June 2020.
Reason for signing up:
For inspiration and community.
Friday, April 24, 2020 @ 9:44am
Bio:
Brendan is a 26 year old fun loving kid in an adult body. He likes to write, jump rope, listen to music and crack jokes at any given opportunity. His aloofness is often the spark of his own works and ideas for his writing.
Reason for signing up:
I was referred by a friend who is a poet and wanted to challenge myself to something new.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:04pm
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 8:34pm
Bio:
Beatrice is a wandering Kentuckian. She is a teacher, and is influenced by her students, her travels, culture, nature, love, loss, the mundane, and the extraordinary.
Reason for signing up:
I wouldn't miss it for the world any more. I love being a part of Lexington's amazing community of writers, and even though I don't live in Lexington any more, I feel like I do every year in June.
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 @ 8:07pm
Bio:
Bernard Deville teaches English & Humanities at Providence Montessori Middle School. Poet, Father, husband, generally embarrassing court jester.
Reason for signing up:
Gives me a chance to start every summer with a fresh writing mind.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
The Shallow End
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June 02, 2020
[red]emption
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June 04, 2020
Conundrums
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June 09, 2020
We Hold These Truths To Be
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June 11, 2020
Seagate
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June 15, 2020
Sunsetting
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June 16, 2020
Industry
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June 17, 2020
What the Season Stole
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June 19, 2020
New Stories
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June 20, 2020
Claim of Day
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June 22, 2020
Bonne Chance (Degas 1899)
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June 24, 2020
Leaning on the Spade
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June 25, 2020
Merrill Saks Schwab
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June 26, 2020
Summer Wind
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June 30, 2020
Words [Pictures] Dreams
Sunday, April 19, 2020 @ 12:22pm
Bio:
Bethany is a writer from southeastern Kentucky. Her work is primarily in short fiction though she has had a love of poetry since high school. Bethany draws inspiration from nature and her southern roots; as well as, her favorite poet e.e. cummings. Bethany has been a Lexington resident for three years.
Reason for signing up:
Bethany signed up to explore and become more familiar with poetic writing styles as a way to help explore varied writing techniques.
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 12:13pm
Bio:
Betsie is an online English teacher to students in China. She loves small town life, sweet tea, and good friends. Betsie writes poetry from time to time.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 @ 5:17pm
Bio:
Bill lives and works in Lexington. He also attempts wresting poems from the whispering around him.
Reason for signing up:
This is a fun community. We need communities. I need community. Thank you all for having me here.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 @ 12:24am
Bio:
Just another Black girl that won't keep quiet.
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 3:43am
Bio:
Body Baghdad is for the chillen
Reason for signing up:
To take part in the inspiration
Monday, May 25, 2020 @ 5:48pm
Bio:
It seems so long ago, but just last year her latest book, Sierra Silk, came out. It is available through her website as well as on Amazon. Additionally, she's working as poetry editor for Hopper Journal, a delight and stimulus at the same time.
Reason for signing up:
Definitely the time to have some virtual companionship and a place to
process what's going on now. Indeed, a "new world" that we must navigate through poetry.
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 10:10am
Bio:
Bronson writes cross-genre fiction with a humorous, often satirical, slant. He solves web problems for Mediocre Creative and enjoys adventures with his wife and 3¾-year-old weirdo, Scout.
Reason for signing up:
Accountability keeps me writing.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Video Game Haiku #1: Dark Souls
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June 02, 2020
Video Game Haiku #2: Super Mario Bros.
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June 03, 2020
Video Game Haiku #3: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
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June 04, 2020
What would be your logo?
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June 05, 2020
Video Game Haiku #4: The Legend of Zelda
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June 06, 2020
JK Rowling and the Excuses to Hate
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June 09, 2020
Video Game Haiku #5: Tetris
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June 10, 2020
Video Game Haiku #6: Pac-Man
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June 12, 2020
Video Game Haiku #8: The Last of Us
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June 17, 2020
Progress Report #1
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 7:07pm
Bio:
Chuck Bukowski is a brilliant fiction writer but a poor poet. He is also a very ugly man and a bad alcoholic.
Reason for signing up:
My teacher told me too, or I'd get a D minus in summer school remedial English.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
New Daddy
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June 02, 2020
FUCK THE POLICE
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June 04, 2020
Animus, Anima
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June 05, 2020
REHAB
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June 13, 2020
Will and Acceptance
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June 14, 2020
GONE
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June 17, 2020
SAME SONG
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June 20, 2020
Morning Meditation
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June 26, 2020
THE MOVEMENT OF LIGHT
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June 27, 2020
CAIN
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June 30, 2020
SPIRIT COLOR AND DEAD POETS
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 11:58pm
Bio:
Her life is in upheaval, just like everyone's.
Reason for signing up:
To share words and continue challenging myself.
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 4:45pm
Bio:
Carole Johnston writes short poems, usually in the Japanese tradition, haiku or tanka. She makes her own rules.
Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 10:27pm
Bio:
Carrie spends her time thinking of all the things she wants to say. Luckily her words don’t shake when written.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
In the absence of a sunrise
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June 02, 2020
Sunburn
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June 03, 2020
Rising Above Your Raising
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June 05, 2020
Motherhood
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June 07, 2020
Dying Quietly
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June 08, 2020
Speech Therapy
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June 09, 2020
Hands Of Man
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June 11, 2020
Smoke
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June 12, 2020
Defeating Drowning
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June 13, 2020
Wino
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June 15, 2020
Traitor
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June 16, 2020
Second Thoughts
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June 18, 2020
Relying On The Setting Sun
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June 19, 2020
July
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June 21, 2020
Locust
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June 22, 2020
Jupiter’s Moons
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June 24, 2020
Dementia
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June 26, 2020
Tired
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June 28, 2020
Time
Monday, May 25, 2020 @ 1:27pm
Bio:
Casey is a graduate student at the University of Kentucky working toward a PhD in Developmental Psychology. She is a dungeons and dragons enthusiast and will always ask to pet your dog.
Reason for signing up:
Madison Burt told me about Lexington poetry month and encouraged me to sign up.
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 9:15pm
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 8:28am
Bio:
Chappy Chapuk is a visionary communicator. He uses prose to share his message and poetry to attempt to share his feeling of the joy and sorrow of mindful presence without judgement in God's world.
Reason for signing up:
To write. It's what I do.
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 11:58am
Bio:
Chayton Ragsdale is a rising college freshman. He has always enjoyed writing ever since he was in middle school. He is new to writing poetry, but is excited to start
Reason for signing up:
Upon my breakup with first love I started trying new things. I remember that she had an account here last year and I loved reading the poems that she and everyone else wrote. So, it was already familiar to me when my teacher Christopher McCurry posted sign-ups on his Instagram story. I figured I would give it a shot as a new poet
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
The Dagger
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June 02, 2020
The Storm
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June 03, 2020
Past
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June 04, 2020
Soul
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June 05, 2020
Pain
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June 06, 2020
Stars
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June 07, 2020
Lost
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June 08, 2020
Life
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June 09, 2020
Kingdom
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June 10, 2020
Poison
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June 11, 2020
Adrift
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June 12, 2020
Hope
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June 13, 2020
Pastures
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June 14, 2020
Happiness
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June 15, 2020
Weak
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June 16, 2020
Cast Away
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June 17, 2020
Love
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June 18, 2020
Deserve
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June 19, 2020
Infinity
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June 20, 2020
Ruins
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June 21, 2020
We are Beautiful
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June 22, 2020
Water
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June 23, 2020
Longing
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June 24, 2020
Wonderland
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June 25, 2020
Work
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June 26, 2020
Blood
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June 27, 2020
How to become a butterfly
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June 28, 2020
You're my happiness
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June 29, 2020
A connection of intimacy
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June 30, 2020
As dawn approaches
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 11:19pm
Bio:
fat feminist in love with chaos and romance
Reason for signing up:
i want to be pushed to finish one of my poems every day this month! i have an absolute vault full of unfinished beginnings!
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 1:51am
Bio:
Christina is a tree-hugging, dirt-worshiping, take-no-$**t hippie; really from Woodstock, NY but has lived in KY almost as long now as there. She reads Runes, blends herbal teas, and posts poems on her FB page occasionally (aka 'shouts into the void').
She's mostly hoping this month caps a year of recovery instead of portending worse happenings than last July.
Reason for signing up:
Tabitha Dial's constant encouragement.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Asphyxia
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June 02, 2020
guilty by association
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June 03, 2020
onion-skin
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June 04, 2020
COVID triptych
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June 06, 2020
Gravity
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June 07, 2020
Last Blood
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June 08, 2020
untitled
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June 10, 2020
Surgery Prep During a Pandemic
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June 13, 2020
(he picked the wrong night)
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June 21, 2020
Sharpen
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June 22, 2020
(untitled)
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June 23, 2020
strong
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June 30, 2020
I sink my fingers into soil / trying to regrow severed roots
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 11:29am
Bio:
Christopher McCurry teaches English at Lafayette High School. He is passionate about poetry, board games, skateboarding, and loving people. He lives in Lexington with his daughter Abra, their hamster (Alexander Hamsterton), and their dog Wicket.
Reason for signing up:
This is the safest place I know to write and grow in my poetry. All my friends are here. It's a party. A poetry party. And I love it.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 7:37pm
Bio:
cl kirby is a social worker living in Cincinnati. She has been writing poetry since her time at the University of Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
To continue my journey as a poet.
Friday, May 1, 2020 @ 10:47pm
Bio:
Catherine Perkins, aka Cleo, used to be a performing, unpaid stand-up comedian and has been and still is a poet of little renown. She has been published in local, Lexington, KY published, anthologies, Clea believes she has 6 maybe 7 poems in print for the world to see. Catherine, aka Cleo, does not like to submit.
Reason for signing up:
I love the community of Lexington writers, artists, poets and want to be a part of every event that involves them. My peers are talented, open minded and accepting humans. I am blessed with unbelievable wealth to call many of them, friends. Plus I like the challenge of writing a poem a day better than I like to edit and complete a poem a day, or submit 1 a day.
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Poems:
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June 02, 2020
In response to a poem posted by Frank X. Walker
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June 05, 2020
What is Poem #5
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June 06, 2020
the garden
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June 08, 2020
if i were blind
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June 12, 2020
Yellow Neon Synapse
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June 13, 2020
Powder Saves the Day
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June 16, 2020
i do not
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June 20, 2020
Cool to Coquito to Croquette to Crumb
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June 21, 2020
daddy's dead
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June 23, 2020
June 23, 2020 2 shorts
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June 24, 2020
bad blow
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June 26, 2020
Recent Conversation Blurbs I Overheard-a found poem
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June 27, 2020
Today's Haiku Class Product
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June 28, 2020
Independence day
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June 29, 2020
Hide 'N Seek
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June 30, 2020
Goodbyes are hard to say-LexPoMo 2020 inspired Haikus
Sunday, May 3, 2020 @ 5:16pm
Bio:
Coco is the alter ego for a shy writer. Go easy on her.
Reason for signing up:
Structure and motivation are my weak spots. LexPoMo provides both.
Sunday, May 24, 2020 @ 9:15pm
Bio:
Cody is a middle school teacher and former journalist. Since his high school days, Cody has written songs. He started as a lyricist and singer in a punk band, then transitioned gradually to acoustic music as he began to age and tire more easily. Since he is a teacher, and not a famous rock star, he is beginning to suspect the music thing probably won’t work out. He has a BA in journalism and a master’s in teaching, both from Morehead State University.
Reason for signing up:
My wife is an excellent writer. She signed up and said, "Cody, I'm not doing this alone...plus, you have to do something this summer besides sit there and read Batman comics."
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:43am
Bio:
Dangerfield Yella from parts unknown. Ashy Larry is my cousin. Drink Water.
Reason for signing up:
RUMBLE YOUNG MAN RUMBLE
Friday, June 5, 2020 @ 11:52pm
Bio:
A senior in High School and film lover.
Reason for signing up:
I would like to challenge myself to create.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 @ 2:41pm
Bio:
DP is an aging student of our toughened regional writing and authors. He began school with only 48 stars on our red white and blue flag. Working up a degree from UK he then worked a career through KY Div of AML. Words matter as well, having split some years in journalism at smaller papers in SE Ky. Still working as a medical courier in Ky.
Reason for signing up:
Been here before after some seasons with Old Washington Wordsmiths and the Poet’s Supper group out of Springfield, Ky.
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 12:32pm
Bio:
Deanna teaches writing at Morehead State University and leads the Morehead Writing Project. Her pandemic project was MWP's Writing Retreat 2.0 which included bringing together writers from around the world to write and share their writing during the quarantine season.
Reason for signing up:
LexPoMo always challenges me to grow as a poet.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Stones
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June 06, 2020
Genocide
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June 07, 2020
Begging the Question
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June 13, 2020
Declaration
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June 15, 2020
Awaking
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June 21, 2020
We named him Noah
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June 22, 2020
Manly Masks
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June 24, 2020
White Knuckles
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June 26, 2020
What is an opening?
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June 27, 2020
We wear the mask that smiles and lies
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June 28, 2020
Factory Settings
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June 29, 2020
Fear
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June 30, 2020
The Replacement
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 8:21am
Bio:
Deat is an Appalachian prodigal daughter, returning to Eastern Kentucky after ten years of living in both Lexington and Louisville. She is a mother to two beautiful little boys, and teaches Middle School ELA at Mountainview Elementary in Hyden, KY.
Reason for signing up:
Writing is therapy, and the way the world looks right now... we could all use some.
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 12:51pm
Bio:
Debbie Adams Cooper lives and writes in central Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
Because it is a "poetry party."
Sunday, May 10, 2020 @ 8:30am
Bio:
Debra wrote what she referred to as "other writing" for years, before finally admitting it actually is poetry. She writes from personal experiences and her emotions. Debra is a 2020 Poetry Gauntlet participant and enjoys the challenge of reading at an occasional open mic night. Debra's paying gig is working at a local non-profit where she assists youth and families.
Reason for signing up:
I am a Poetry Gauntlet participant and heard about the #lexpomo opportunity. I decided being a part would help me meet my writing goal, plus provide for a challenging experience. And...maybe meet some new people. Basically I think it will help me grow as a writer so why not?
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
all the time
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June 03, 2020
fallacy of darkness
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June 04, 2020
accept uncertainty
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June 05, 2020
just ice
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June 06, 2020
chaos
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June 07, 2020
just me, alone
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June 08, 2020
dinner didn't turn out so well tonight
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June 09, 2020
although I rarely cash in
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June 10, 2020
loss yet to come
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June 12, 2020
window open
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June 13, 2020
underlying anger
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June 14, 2020
Sunday morning
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June 15, 2020
night noise
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June 17, 2020
much seems magnified
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June 18, 2020
deliberation does not
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June 19, 2020
when night falls
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June 20, 2020
summer solstice
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June 21, 2020
even in melancholy
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June 22, 2020
time beckons me
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June 24, 2020
I am here
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June 26, 2020
not being perfectly capable
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June 27, 2020
country sounds
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June 28, 2020
also
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June 29, 2020
stymied and abashed
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June 30, 2020
as does change
Saturday, May 9, 2020 @ 1:20pm
Bio:
Delmar Reffett is a writer and critic. He is currently an adjunct professor of English at Kentucky State Univ. in Frankfort, and lives in Lexington with his wife Morgan and their dog Annie.
Reason for signing up:
It's always good to have something to hold your feet to fire!
Saturday, May 2, 2020 @ 12:14pm
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 seven books of poetry including Cloaked Moon: Women of the Bible.
Reason for signing up:
I'm just the type of person who works better with deadlines and challenges.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Sunday Morning
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June 02, 2020
So All Can See
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June 03, 2020
Mayhem
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June 04, 2020
Who Am I?
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June 05, 2020
Baptism
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June 06, 2020
Time at Home
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June 07, 2020
visitors
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June 08, 2020
firefly
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June 09, 2020
Wasted Energy
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June 10, 2020
Vanish
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June 11, 2020
Petition
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June 12, 2020
Sisters
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June 13, 2020
storm brewing
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June 14, 2020
Iris
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June 15, 2020
Choir
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June 16, 2020
Morning Glory
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June 17, 2020
Wasps
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June 18, 2020
Worry
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June 19, 2020
Sleeping Giant
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June 20, 2020
Spring Peeper
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June 21, 2020
On Father's Day
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June 22, 2020
Monday
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June 23, 2020
It's Not Mardi Gras
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June 24, 2020
Drone
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June 25, 2020
Spider's Web
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June 26, 2020
June Bugs
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June 27, 2020
Shadows
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June 28, 2020
Graveyard
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June 29, 2020
Night
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June 30, 2020
coffee shop
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 10:52am
Bio:
Devan is a poet from Lexington who is desperately seeking enough poems to meet their Gauntlet goal of 100 poems in 2020.
Reason for signing up:
What else is there to do?
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 8:45am
Bio:
Donelle Dreese is a poet, novelist, essayist, and Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University where she teaches Multicultural and Environmental Literatures, American Women Poets, and writing courses. She is the author of several collections of poetry including Sophrosyne, published by Aldrich Press. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in a wide variety of journals and magazines.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 @ 6:46pm
Bio:
Doug Self is a poet who, over this past year, had forgotten he is a poet. He finds that fact unacceptable.
Reason for signing up:
I've participated in LexPoMo every year now. I have no intentions of stopping.
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 11:45pm
Bio:
Dwight is the Fates’ lieutenant; he writes under orders.
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 3:02pm
Bio:
Emily VanWinkle-Johnson is a high school English and theatre teacher at Estill County High School. When not working on curriculum or directing Blue Train Theatre (Estill Co.’s student theatre), she spends her time at home drinking coffee, reading books, being mesmerized by her toddler daughter, and wrangling her two dogs.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because I find myself needing an outlet and hope to inspire my students to use writing as an outlet themselves. I rarely share my work with an audience- aside from the Haiku’s I write on the white board for my students’ amusement- but want to be more open with my work, regardless of how “good” it really is.
Sunday, May 3, 2020 @ 7:59pm
Bio:
Eden likes to write and thought she’d try to actually do it. Aside from writing professional words for dysfunctional situations, she has little practice writing for herself, save the unsolicited angry political response on someone’s FB post.
Reason for signing up:
Instagram challenged me, and I am not one to shirk an internet request be it Nigerian Princes or Re-posting what the media won’t talk about.
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 10:35am
Bio:
47 yr old Newspaper оr Periodical Editor Kevin fгom Angus, spends time with hobbies and intereѕtѕ such as fencing, suspension insulators and greeting card collecting. In the ⅼast few montһs has visited to locations ⅼike and Environs.
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 @ 11:53am
Bio:
Eileen Rush is a queer Appalachian poet, writer, and narrative designer. She lives in Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
I love a challenge!
Sunday, May 24, 2020 @ 4:26pm
Reason for signing up:
i'm bored af and i need drama
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 11:24am
Bio:
Erin Mathews is a Kentucky native and Cincinnati transplant. A surefire storyteller, poet, and librarian in-progress, she writes for herself, family and friends.
Reason for signing up:
Traditionnnnnnnnn! (sung like a brief performance of Fiddler on the Roof)
Thursday, April 16, 2020 @ 8:47pm
Bio:
Erin Thiery is a standard-issue office worker and free-time fiction writer, temporarily posing as a poet for the month of June 2020.
Reason for signing up:
Because Bronson said to, and also I'm not totally convinced June is real at this point.
Update: it turns out June is real, which is very rude of it.
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 9:46pm
Bio:
Finna is an accomplished wife and mother who has been writing since, well, kindergarten. She's new to journalism and is excited to give poetry another go.
Reason for signing up:
A writing coach and mentor threatened to make us eat worms if we didn't try. I'm only over-exaggerating a little.
Friday, May 8, 2020 @ 1:30pm
Bio:
A longtime teacher at Eastern Kentucky University, Gaby Bedetti and three students are leading a Collecting Memories Circle at a local retirement home.
Reason for signing up:
I love the variety of voices and miss them when June ends.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Our Daily Bread
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June 02, 2020
Bird Watching
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June 03, 2020
Radishes
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June 04, 2020
Fallback
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June 05, 2020
At the Department Picnic
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June 06, 2020
Nature Walk
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June 07, 2020
Gumption
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June 08, 2020
Troubling the Line
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June 09, 2020
Every Summer Day a Snow Day
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June 10, 2020
Dreaming
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June 11, 2020
Briefing the Patient
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June 12, 2020
Small Is Beautiful
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June 13, 2020
Remembering Jon Tribble at the Sewanee Writers' Conference
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June 14, 2020
For the Record
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June 15, 2020
Retirement Q & A
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June 16, 2020
Finding Poetry
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June 17, 2020
Plumbing
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June 18, 2020
Gone Quiet
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June 19, 2020
COVID Dream
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June 20, 2020
History of the World
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June 21, 2020
Making It Happen
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June 22, 2020
At His Expense
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June 23, 2020
Morning Meeting
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June 24, 2020
Stealing Bricks
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June 25, 2020
Validation by Publication
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June 26, 2020
Message on Church Lawn
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June 27, 2020
Same as It Ever Was
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June 28, 2020
Middle Ground
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June 29, 2020
Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow
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June 30, 2020
Too Close for Comfort
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 1:18am
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 @ 6:40am
Bio:
A poet once, perhaps again.
Reason for signing up:
I need a community of writers and a reason to try writing again.
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Poems:
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June 02, 2020
Off Balance
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June 03, 2020
Pain
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June 04, 2020
Ticks
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June 05, 2020
Summer Storm
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June 06, 2020
History Lessons: Again
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June 08, 2020
Dust
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June 09, 2020
Resilience (with thanks to Joyce Carol Oates)
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June 11, 2020
Wrinkles
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June 12, 2020
The News
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June 14, 2020
Fat
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June 15, 2020
The Swim Lesson
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June 18, 2020
Wine Tasting
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June 19, 2020
Father’s Day
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June 20, 2020
Covid Baking
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June 21, 2020
Our Process is the Same
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June 23, 2020
Missing Poems
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June 24, 2020
Gardening
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June 25, 2020
Chronic Pain
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June 27, 2020
M.I.A.
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June 28, 2020
For Pat on her 100th
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June 29, 2020
Gluten Free
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June 30, 2020
That ‘57 Red Convertible
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 @ 10:33pm
Bio:
Gregory D. Welch is a Kentucky poet who writes about life through many lenses. He writes poetry about nature, the moon and stars, the mystical and surreal and the rhythms of the tiny moments in between.
His favorite spot to sit and think is on the front porch in the porch swing. There are few better machines ever made for thinking and writing than the porch swing.
Reason for signing up:
I had a blast writing poetry everyday for the National Poetry Month Challenge, and really miss the daily rhythm it helped me shape.
There's nothing better than the excitement of finding a new poem waiting to be discovered each morning.
I want to tap back into that, see if I can find new ways to challenge myself to grow and experience life as a poet.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
An Old Rusty Windmill Marks the Days
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June 02, 2020
Every Tree Is Haunted
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June 03, 2020
They Keep Stars
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June 04, 2020
A Whisper Between Them
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June 05, 2020
The Creek Is in a Frenzy
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June 07, 2020
The Bluejay Was Mad | Haiku
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June 09, 2020
The Manifesto of Thunder
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June 10, 2020
One Single Feather Fell in My Path
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June 11, 2020
Two Otters
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June 12, 2020
Green Tea in the Morning
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June 13, 2020
My Head Cracked
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June 14, 2020
The Water Below the Old Bridge
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June 15, 2020
Red Eye Gravy
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June 16, 2020
The Woods Grows Wild Here
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June 17, 2020
A Lived In Slice of Road
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June 18, 2020
My Poetry Is a Favorite Work Shirt
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June 19, 2020
The Cardinal Sings
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June 20, 2020
The Minnows Are Dreaming
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June 21, 2020
Carrion Curiosity
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June 23, 2020
Under the Low Bridge
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June 24, 2020
Does the Wind Ever Get Tired?
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June 25, 2020
Each Feather, the Ghost of a Wing
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June 26, 2020
October in a June Sky
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June 27, 2020
Strange Days Stacking Up
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June 28, 2020
Every Bird Sings a Conspiracy
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June 29, 2020
It’s Been Thundering All Morning
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June 30, 2020
The Windmill Sings Its Rusty Song
Friday, April 17, 2020 @ 12:40pm
Bio:
H.A. is a public school educator in the Hudson Valley, New York. She is a non-fiction writer whose contributions focus on issues of racial, social, and cultural equity and representation across classrooms and other educational spaces. H.A. is new(ish) to creative writing, and finds inspiration in others' creative works.
She is an avid tea drinker, a distance runner, an animal lover, and an overall outdoors enthusiast.
Reason for signing up:
I enjoy being part of a writing community. It's such an honor to read others' creations.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Protest in the Darkness
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June 02, 2020
Saying Hello: A (New) Marriage Ritual
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June 03, 2020
Traveling to Another Dimension
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June 04, 2020
Morning
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June 05, 2020
Scrape
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June 06, 2020
Young "Love" as I Remember It
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June 07, 2020
Running and Death
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June 08, 2020
Voice: An Undetectable Celebration
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June 09, 2020
Flesh
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June 10, 2020
Flood
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June 11, 2020
Apology
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June 12, 2020
Thoughts on Fire
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June 13, 2020
Shadow Boxing
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June 14, 2020
Mango
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June 15, 2020
No House Pet
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June 16, 2020
Phone Call
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June 17, 2020
Thirst
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June 18, 2020
Sacrifice
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June 19, 2020
Breath
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June 20, 2020
Bury
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June 21, 2020
Deceit
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June 22, 2020
Rattle
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June 23, 2020
Celebration
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June 24, 2020
Ocean
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June 25, 2020
Birthday
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June 26, 2020
Bitter for Sweet
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June 27, 2020
Smoking
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June 28, 2020
Rain
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June 29, 2020
Performance
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June 30, 2020
Last
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 10:43am
Bio:
Harold is a Donovan Scholar, majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. He received his MM in Composition from the UK School of Music in 1999. Born and raised in Lexington, KY, he played on the road and lived in New York City before returning to Lexington in 1983.
Reason for signing up:
I heard about it from Bronson O'Quinn at Carnegie Center's Writing Practice.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
ARE PEOPLE FUNNY?
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June 02, 2020
DO I BELONG HERE?
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June 03, 2020
WHO MATTERS?
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June 04, 2020
THEY DIDN'T CARE
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June 05, 2020
CHOICES
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June 06, 2020
RETURN OF THE SMARTASS POET
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June 07, 2020
BOOMER QUESTIONS
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June 08, 2020
TWENTIETH CENTURY WHAT IF'S
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June 09, 2020
BOOK TITLES WE PROBABLY HAVEN'T SEEN
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June 10, 2020
ENEMIES OF THE PAST
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June 11, 2020
SINGING TO A TREE
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June 13, 2020
IF QUENTIN TARANTINO COLLABORATED WITH OLIVER STONE
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June 14, 2020
I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED, PART II
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June 15, 2020
REVISED SAYINGS PART II
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June 16, 2020
YOU DON'T NEED A LIFE COACH PART II
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June 17, 2020
CHANNELING YOGI BERRA PART II
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June 19, 2020
WHEN THE TITLE IS ACTUALLY LONGER THAN THE POEM #2
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June 20, 2020
MORE THINGS THAT DIDN'T MAKE MY BUCKET LIST
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June 21, 2020
MORE RHETORICAL QUESTIONS AND ANOTHER APOLOGY
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June 23, 2020
ANOTHER NARRATIVE NEVER USED ON A PRARIE HOME COMPANION LEADING UP TO THE RHUBARB PIE JINGLE
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June 24, 2020
FRANK SINATRA WAS A COWBOY
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June 25, 2020
THE MONUMENT NEXT DOOR
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June 27, 2020
HYPOTHETICAL REVERSALS?
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June 28, 2020
WHY IS THE WORLD SO SCREWED UP?
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June 30, 2020
BOOK TITLES WE PROBABLY HAVEN’T SEEN PART II
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 3:57pm
Bio:
Perpetually enraged for the last four years. Terms and conditions may apply, see inside for details.
Reason for signing up:
Catharsis and connection.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
The Kindly Ones
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June 02, 2020
Search Party of One
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June 03, 2020
Fine Line (and other relationships)
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June 04, 2020
On Hearing
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June 05, 2020
f'(x)
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June 06, 2020
I just wanna let the cat in!
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June 07, 2020
Damnit, Gravity!
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June 08, 2020
Fuck you, streaming
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June 09, 2020
Rumsfeldian quadrant
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June 10, 2020
3mg ii qhs
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June 11, 2020
τόξον
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June 17, 2020
back where I started
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June 26, 2020
in absentia
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June 30, 2020
once more
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 5:39pm
Bio:
I am visual artist who dabbles in poetry.
Reason for signing up:
Love doing this! It inspires me to write.
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 4:01pm
Bio:
Helen is a young poet and college sophomore studying brains and always writing.
Reason for signing up:
Keeps me inspired
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 2:30pm
Bio:
Hunter Westenhofer is a student and writer of both prose and poetry residing in central Kentucky. He has a profound passion for spreading empathy through words and travel. He exists for the love of words, and the spread of hope.
Reason for signing up:
I participated in the 2019 Lexington Poetry Month event and it was by far the highlight of my year, so here I am again.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
black lives matter.
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June 02, 2020
she tells me to look her in the eyes before she says that she loves me
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June 03, 2020
contemplating life as an old soul
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June 04, 2020
In Praise
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June 05, 2020
breakfast served as a juxtaposition
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June 06, 2020
bystander
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June 07, 2020
thoughts while looking at flowers in the night
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June 08, 2020
good people
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June 09, 2020
the cage
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June 10, 2020
the tabernacle on the shore of the creek
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June 11, 2020
makeshift mothers
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June 12, 2020
apathy
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June 13, 2020
thinking about goodbye is like
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June 14, 2020
melancholy morning
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June 15, 2020
ambiguous drive
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June 16, 2020
what i know
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June 17, 2020
a reprise
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June 18, 2020
pulling your rolling stones t-shirt from the washer
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June 19, 2020
looking at every photo like it’s a family portrait
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June 20, 2020
missing the sunset
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June 21, 2020
milk and sugar
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June 22, 2020
an orange haze of lights
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June 23, 2020
anatomical prayer
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June 24, 2020
grass in my pocket
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June 25, 2020
waffle house
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June 26, 2020
the ballad of alexandra
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June 27, 2020
evanescence
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June 28, 2020
every morning seems to be a small infinity
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June 29, 2020
dog days
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June 30, 2020
advent by the river
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 10:31pm
Bio:
17 year old activist. Dancer, musician, follower of Christ.
Reason for signing up:
Poetry is my greatest escape.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
7 years
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June 02, 2020
I Forgave You Today
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June 03, 2020
Destruction
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June 04, 2020
abandonment issues
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June 05, 2020
untitled
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June 06, 2020
listen
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June 08, 2020
“The Special Pain”
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June 11, 2020
One More Assault Story
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June 12, 2020
Feminism
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June 13, 2020
Prison Beds
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June 23, 2020
Honey, Glass, and things that shine
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 9:01pm
Bio:
J. Wise is a person. She went to a few schools and she has a job [thumbs up emoji]
Reason for signing up:
I need to work less and write poems more.
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:23am
Bio:
J.F. Angel is a transgender/bi-gender author with a BA in English and a certificate in screenwriting. She loves fairies, mermaids, and movies.
Reason for signing up:
I want to dance with the muse.
I was inspired by friends and mentors.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
The sound of pandemic is silence
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June 03, 2020
So in Love
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June 08, 2020
Punishing Summers
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June 09, 2020
Failed Shortcut
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June 11, 2020
Maladaptive
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June 12, 2020
Shattered Tinkerbell
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June 14, 2020
Savor
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June 15, 2020
Healer
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June 16, 2020
Wake Up Calls
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June 19, 2020
Things I Do Not Miss
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 4:28pm
Bio:
j.l taylor is a native Lexingtonian who has established her love of writing poetry through attending community open-mics. her passion of the arts in all forms propelled her to be an arts administrator and is currently the grants manager at the kentucky arts council. before the pandemic hit, she also started a local poetry open mic, "Poets Down Yonder" and hopes that LexPoMo will encourage her and others to get back on the stage to share when the world is ready.
Reason for signing up:
I signed for the same reason I do every year: motivation. as much as I think and sleep and dream about poems there seems to be less and less time i spend writing them. i hope i will use this space as meditation for my words, to write without judgement, and breath in and breath out my words composedly as possible.
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 5:55pm
Bio:
Jamie Mann is a Junction City, KY girl who has degrees in English and Philosophy from Berea College, but somehow finds herself spending her days as an IT and Interactive Media director for a medical company. She doesn't know how this happened either. For as long as she can remember she has loved two things - getting lost and words.
Reason for signing up:
I love all the words and want to read yours.
Sunday, May 3, 2020 @ 11:57pm
Bio:
Jamin is a master procrastinator who should write more.
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 6:07am
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Poems:
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June 02, 2020
Snake tongue
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June 03, 2020
Beating My Head Against a Wall
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June 04, 2020
Science
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June 05, 2020
6
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June 06, 2020
Me and the Eagle
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June 07, 2020
The Cardinal's Song
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June 08, 2020
Kintsugi
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June 09, 2020
Of a Monday Evening in Spring
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June 10, 2020
If I Had a Boat
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June 11, 2020
The Anti-Heroes
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June 12, 2020
I Could Have Made this Up, But I Didn't Have To
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June 13, 2020
Party of One for Dinner
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June 14, 2020
Yesterday When I Was Minding My Own Business
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June 15, 2020
Amor Fati -or- Mulder and Scully
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June 16, 2020
That Night at the Jabbok
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June 17, 2020
My friend is a #bossbabe, don't sweat it
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June 18, 2020
For David, Who Could Not Stay
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June 19, 2020
(Typical)
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June 20, 2020
Poem: an Abstract
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June 21, 2020
Hard Women
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June 22, 2020
The Conversation
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June 23, 2020
Down on the Boulevard
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June 24, 2020
Grace Walking: A Poem for My Children
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June 25, 2020
It's Hard to Be Beautiful in This Day and Age
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June 26, 2020
Parting Song
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June 27, 2020
One of Those Days
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June 28, 2020
For Later
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June 29, 2020
Moon Mirror
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June 30, 2020
Riding in Cars with Children
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 8:02pm
Bio:
Originally from the Chicagoland area, Janelle has lived in central Kentucky for fifteen years. She enjoys time with family, homeschooling, wood working, and so much more.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because I love my brother and to practice my written expression.
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:31am
Bio:
Jasmine Robinson is the author of various notebooks full of poetry, songs, and beginnings of novels—none of which ever see the light of day. She is a transplant to Lexington, KY from Indiana by way of Nashville, TN.
Reason for signing up:
This is a challenge to myself to both keep writing and also to share what I write. I am participating also out of curiosity to read the work of other local writers.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Let's start here
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June 02, 2020
Teaching American English to Refugees
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June 03, 2020
A precarious conversation
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June 04, 2020
Road trip to Sequoia
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June 05, 2020
untitled
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June 06, 2020
For my father
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June 07, 2020
Touch in the time of corona
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June 08, 2020
I am liquid.
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June 09, 2020
On roots and rudders... (old dog, new trick)
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June 10, 2020
self-love
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June 11, 2020
untitled
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June 13, 2020
The wager.
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June 17, 2020
captive audience
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June 19, 2020
Cosmic Adventure Tale
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June 20, 2020
siren song
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June 24, 2020
untitled
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June 26, 2020
tide
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June 30, 2020
untitled
Monday, April 27, 2020 @ 12:32pm
Bio:
Jay McCoy is a Lexington-based poet and visual artist with deep roots in Eastern Kentucky. His family has lived in Pike County for generations; he grew up in Perry County. Currently, he fills his days as a contract writer, editor, and instructor. Jay holds degrees from Transylvania University, the University of Akron, and earned his MFA in creative writing from the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University. Jay’s poetry has appeared in several anthologies and journals. His chapbook, The Occupation, was published by Accents Publishing in 2015.
Reason for signing up:
In past years, LexPoMo has proven an effective and enjoyable exercise to move my writing practice to a new level. Participants provide valuable feedback and encouragement throughout the month, building a strong writing community that can continue throughout the year.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 @ 12:32pm
Bio:
(L)expatriate; partner, father, writer, disc jockey.
“They look like weeds, but they're really flowers/And they'll soon be gone.” —“Dennis” by Badfinger (Wish You Were Here, 1974)
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 10:05pm
Bio:
She has been a teacher, a counselor,
an Arts Resource teacher specializing in creative dramatics for children, and after embracing her muse after retirement-a writer of poems, memoir, fiction, opinion, and essay. When her muse goes into hiding she journals until something jolts the muse back into being. She is old now, thinks young and feels strangely out of synch with today's society. She wants to write poetry to address this dichotomy.
Reason for signing up:
I'm not sure. The idea of joining other poets in writing a poem a day feels hopeful The strange new world emerging from the pandemic compels us to" look at everything" as though seeing it for the first time", and as Sister. Corita Kent said in the sixties, it "takes courage". I hope I am up to the challenge.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:09pm
Bio:
j jebson is a writer from kentucky, based in illinois
Reason for signing up:
i enjoy homework and writing feels like homework
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 @ 4:28pm
Bio:
Jennifer Barricklow lives in Lexington, Kentucky. She enjoys gardening, tarot, crochet, and tea. One day she hopes to become a gypsy fortune teller.
Reason for signing up:
Anything that pushes me to write more poetry is a good thing.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Forbidden
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June 02, 2020
The writing of poetry, perhaps
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June 03, 2020
About time and loss
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June 04, 2020
(untitled)
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June 05, 2020
Sideways
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June 06, 2020
Swirl
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June 07, 2020
(untitled)
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June 08, 2020
At Oaklawn
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June 09, 2020
Small miracles
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June 10, 2020
Buzzman's Holiday
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June 11, 2020
Bird strike
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June 13, 2020
Anticipation of the unknowable
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June 14, 2020
Mystery solved
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June 15, 2020
Haunted
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June 16, 2020
Driving Aunt Clara
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June 17, 2020
Sightings
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June 19, 2020
Periodic return
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June 20, 2020
Suburban privilege
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June 22, 2020
Reading for Mercury in retrograde
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June 23, 2020
How to Use this Book
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June 24, 2020
Up too early
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June 25, 2020
(untitled)
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June 26, 2020
In a fairy tale
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June 28, 2020
Full stop catastrophe
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June 29, 2020
A kick in the backside
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June 30, 2020
Waiting for the world to end
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 7:10pm
Bio:
Jennifer Beckett lives in Kentucky with her husband and daughter. She graduated with a B.A. from Georgetown College and an M.A. from the University of Kentucky. She teaches English and French.
Reason for signing up:
I love this community of poets. Being part of it brings me joy.
Thursday, June 4, 2020 @ 10:54pm
Bio:
Jennifer is a wife, mom, maker of soup, and writer of words living in Lexington, KY. A former restaurateur, her food writing has been featured in Nougat Magazine, M.D. Update, and Country Living Magazine. Her current passion is Appalachian fiction.
Reason for signing up:
Think about this, y'all: We all have the same 26 letters to work with. Just like Wendell Berry and Ernest Hemingway.
I am not a poet -- so I hope my *real* poet friends go easy on me. But this is a great stretch for my fiction writing brain. (And I can't do anything without a deadline.) Also, I love the community. We need it always, but especially in these times.
Saturday, May 9, 2020 @ 10:46am
Bio:
Jerielle sees the world sometimes as a painting, sometimes as a poem. She's 37 years old and has lived in Lexington for nearly 20 years. Her other interests include nature, textiles, teaching, music, theater and food.
Reason for signing up:
I love this community
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Poems:
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June 02, 2020
Trickling Zephyrs
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June 03, 2020
Stealing Time
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June 04, 2020
Summary (of Quarantine) 4 Short Porms, not autocorrected
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June 05, 2020
The Way
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June 07, 2020
Goldie Locks (My lover's hair)
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June 11, 2020
What kind of animal would you be?
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June 15, 2020
What if...
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June 17, 2020
Never Ending Novelty
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June 18, 2020
A Frame
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June 27, 2020
Something painful
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June 28, 2020
An Evening at the Estate
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June 30, 2020
Art is polarizing
Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 5:26pm
Bio:
Jessica Farquhar is the author of Dear Motorcycle Enthusiast, a chapbook forthcoming from The Magnificent Field in summer of 2020. She holds an MFA from Purdue, where she was the assistant director of Creative Writing. You can find her work in recent issues of Western Humanities Review, cream city review, and Bear Review.
Reason for signing up:
In solidarity with my writing group, Sublimity City, in Louisville!
Thursday, April 30, 2020 @ 11:45pm
Bio:
Jessica Swafford is a poet from Georgetown, Kentucky.
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 4:04pm
Bio:
Jim is a poet, among other things.
Reason for signing up:
To read other poets and to share a few of my poems.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Walking in the field of tall timothy
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June 02, 2020
The Living Room as a Train Station
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June 03, 2020
Dead Man's Fingers
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June 04, 2020
Peeling Back 1997
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June 05, 2020
Late into my dream of human moans
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June 06, 2020
Speech Therapy
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June 07, 2020
I feel like the secretary to the morning whose only
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June 08, 2020
The Sofa as a Collector of Seeds
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June 09, 2020
Your sudden wrench away
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June 10, 2020
The Hawks' Point Incident
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June 11, 2020
Late Into '96
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June 13, 2020
On the Verge of Your Absence
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June 14, 2020
I'm appointed secretary of mourning
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June 15, 2020
Sycamore as my Writing Desk
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June 16, 2020
Your Post
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June 18, 2020
Paradoja de la Hamaca
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June 19, 2020
Never Mind
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June 20, 2020
Did You Find This In Your Own Life?
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June 21, 2020
Afternoon with the Secretary
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June 22, 2020
The Ceiling as Someone's Floor
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June 23, 2020
Bitter Dock
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June 24, 2020
Are They Shooting Stars?
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June 25, 2020
A Quarter's Worth (1970 - 1995)
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June 26, 2020
Prequel to "A Quarter's Worth (1970 - 1995)"
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June 27, 2020
It Must Be
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June 28, 2020
Questioned by the Secretary
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June 29, 2020
Fog as your Mother's Ghost
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June 30, 2020
Winging Our Way
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 1:22pm
Bio:
JK Elias lives in Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
I enjoyed myself last year and produced some work I am fond of for once.
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 9:43am
Bio:
Jordyn Manczyk is a native of Lexington, Kentucky, an exhausted graduate student, and a new mom of a beautiful baby boy. She currently lives with her husband, son, and their droopy-eared Bagle-hound in Lexington. 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. She teaches Developmental Reading and Writing at UK. She loves to write about family, nature, and small, quiet moments of meaning. When she isn't writing, she's probably listening to a podcast, cooking or baking, attempting to finish homework, or playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Reason for signing up:
This is my fourth year signing up with Lexington Poetry Month, and now, more than ever, I find that poetry is not only a comfort but is also a much needed platform with which to try and open hearts and minds to real pain, injustice, hope, and truth in our society. I have found that LexPoMo gets me connected with writers in my area, keeps me writing, and reminds me that there is always a path to bringing light into a dark world.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:55pm
Bio:
John is a painter, printmaker, and writer of poems, songs and fiction.
Reason for signing up:
I lost my public studio and gallery due to the pandemic, which is fine, I can work at home, but the transition was very hard work and left me without a place to paint for a while. That, plus the fact that the novel I have been working on for ten years has become a little cumbersome to keep up with (not to mention everything being on fire), has forced my flow into unexpected bursts of poetry, mostly during tri-weekly bouts of insomnia. I’m ready.
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 6:43pm
Bio:
John is a Kentucky native who enjoys time with his family and friends, writing, reading, and the great outdoors when he gets the chance.
Reason for signing up:
To add to and support written expressions.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Bart
Sunday, April 26, 2020 @ 3:55pm
Bio:
Since LexPoMo was born, Jordan starts each year looking forward to June. She holds a B.A. in English with a Spanish minor from the University of Kentucky. In her final semester, she rediscovered poetry and fell in love. Jordan has been published in campus literary magazines, as well as contributing poetry to the LexPoMo culminating anthologies. She now resides in Paris, KY with her family and is so grateful for the chance to submit again this June.
Reason for signing up:
I've desperately missed reading local poetry from names I have begun to recognize, and I'm excited to read submissions from those I don't know yet. It's been shamefully too long since I've produced poems on even a semi-regular basis, so I really needed something to kick-start the creative process.
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 2:20pm
Bio:
I live in Lexington, Kentucky and I love to write words.
Reason for signing up:
I thought it would be fun
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Poems:
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June 02, 2020
Add a Large Fry, Please
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June 03, 2020
Gravitational Love
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June 17, 2020
remmus ezad
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June 18, 2020
Pickpocket
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June 19, 2020
100 Proof
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June 20, 2020
Legacy
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June 21, 2020
Lysergic Radiance
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June 22, 2020
Secrets of the Night
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June 23, 2020
you can Throw a ball, but takes Skill to hit one
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June 24, 2020
Thorn Blood
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 1:38pm
Bio:
Joseph Allen Nichols likes to think he is a child of the Romantics, a modern day minstrel and druid, and lives with his two sons in Lexington, KY. He is overly fascinated with international folklore and melding the classical and modern voices.
Reason for signing up:
There is no community like this community. Wouldn’t miss it for the world.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Ginjinha Nights
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June 02, 2020
Ex - Voto
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June 04, 2020
Show Me tha' Key
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June 05, 2020
I Need a Spell—-
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June 08, 2020
Backyard Arcana
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June 11, 2020
Lepidopteran
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June 13, 2020
Another Exodus
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June 14, 2020
Stridulation
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June 15, 2020
The Emperor; A Reading
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June 17, 2020
Spirituality in the Sandbox
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June 18, 2020
Day 97 of Isolation: A Confession
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June 19, 2020
O Sleepers!
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June 21, 2020
Of Thorns, Of Vapors
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June 22, 2020
Biding this Side of the Bends
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June 23, 2020
String Around Your Finger
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June 24, 2020
Drawing Alongside
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June 25, 2020
Drawing Alongside; An Interlude
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June 26, 2020
...
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June 28, 2020
Integration vs. Immolation
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June 30, 2020
Metamorphic
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 9:36am
Bio:
Joseph is a teacher from Lexington, who has served students in schools all around the community since 2003.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because of peer pressure; the good kind. More accurately, I needed to get back to something I’d lost along the way and, as is often the case, I needed a nudge to spur me along. Thankfully LexPoMo and it’s members are here to provide that nudge.
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 @ 7:13pm
Bio:
Josey is a student at the University of Kentucky. He uses poetry to understand himself, and the world around him.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up, to be a part of a great community of poets.
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Poems:
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June 02, 2020
The Self Portrait
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June 03, 2020
Behind My Skull
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June 04, 2020
Untitled
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June 06, 2020
Ribcage Claw
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June 07, 2020
A Morning
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June 08, 2020
The Unknown
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June 13, 2020
Control
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June 16, 2020
We Sleep Like Children
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June 17, 2020
My World
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June 18, 2020
In My Room
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June 19, 2020
To Change
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June 20, 2020
Another Sunny Day
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June 22, 2020
A War Between the Sun and Moon
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June 27, 2020
Grassland Sea
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June 29, 2020
At a Glance, a Pantoum Work
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 @ 2:17pm
Bio:
Bruce is a retired college administrator,grandparent,freelance columnist and erstwhile poet. She finds this opportunity to participate both challenging and enriching.
Reason for signing up:
This opportunity makes me feel a part of the Kentucky writing community. Writing by its very nature is isolating and all these writers go out of the way to be inclusive and helpful.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery
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June 02, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery II
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June 03, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery III Russell Howard
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June 04, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetary IV Tressie
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June 05, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery V Sary
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June 06, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery VI Decoration
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June 07, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery VI Edith
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June 08, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery VII Kelly
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June 09, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery VIII Tuck
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June 10, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery IX Johnny
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June 11, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery X Martha
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June 12, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XI A Lamb's Tale
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June 13, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XII Doc and the Poplar Tree
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June 14, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XIII Frances
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June 15, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XIV The Rev. Mr. White
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June 16, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XV Mag Bailey
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June 17, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XVI Doris May
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June 18, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XVIII Danny Ray
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June 19, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XVIII The Two Boys
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June 20, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XIX Lingenfeltzer the Belle
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June 21, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XX The Stolen Yucca
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June 22, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XXII Romeo and Juliet
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June 23, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XXIII The Magnolia
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June 24, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XXIV Rosspoint
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June 25, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XXIII Fleeta
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June 26, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XXVI Little Girl in Blue
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June 27, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XXVII Old Mose
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June 28, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XXVIII Tom
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June 29, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XXVIII Jeff
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June 30, 2020
Pine Mountain Cemetery XXX The Rumor
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 7:55pm
Bio:
k. nicole effervesces art: painting and poeticizing prolifically, loves hyperbole but tastes mostly irony, touched with hypergraphia and rainbow vision. her other super powers are currently classified.
Reason for signing up:
not even a pandemic can pull me from our community of poetry where our connectivity and voices are becoming more vital every day. i raise my voice with all y’all in a toast of love and protest.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 5:42pm
Bio:
k.d. white. Mother of two, lover of nature.
Reason for signing up:
Felt inspired
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 @ 12:58pm
Bio:
Karen George, a native Kentuckian, has published five chapbooks and two poetry 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 photography and visiting museums, cemeteries, gardens, parks, the woods, mountains, historic river towns, and bodies of water. Visit my website at: https://karenlgeorge.blogspot.com/.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because this will be my seventh year of writing a poem-a-day with other LexPoMo poets in June, and I've always found it inspiring. Also, for me, having a daily deadline is a good thing. I work well under pressure.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
The day after a final visit
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June 03, 2020
Beauty to Rely On
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June 04, 2020
Second Childhood Home
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June 05, 2020
You must come to them sideways *
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June 07, 2020
The Growing World
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June 09, 2020
How Sound is a Spark
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June 13, 2020
The Gardener and the Garden (Cento)
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June 14, 2020
A Lesson in Possibilities (Cento)
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June 16, 2020
Only as the Day Is Long (Cento)
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June 17, 2020
Among the Enigmas (Cento)
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June 19, 2020
What is it about a room
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June 23, 2020
Kandinsky, “Night,” 1907
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June 25, 2020
Kandinsky, "Capricious," 1930
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June 27, 2020
Spun into the Fork of Confluence (Cento)
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 @ 12:08pm
Bio:
Kate Welsh is from Louisville, KY. Most recently Kate Welsh was published in Four Quarterly. She got her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
Reason for signing up:
To prod me to write every day
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 @ 9:34pm
Bio:
Katelyn Weldon is a recent high school graduate and will attend Thomas More University in the fall studying Biology and Spanish. She also hopes to continue writing poetry and continuing to improve her writing.
Reason for signing up:
To read the work of others as well as to share my own.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
The Backstory
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June 02, 2020
Pushing Through
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June 03, 2020
Travel
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June 04, 2020
A Battle
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June 05, 2020
New Frames
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June 06, 2020
Opportunity
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June 07, 2020
Remembering Grandma
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June 08, 2020
My Letter to You
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June 09, 2020
Class of Covid-19
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June 10, 2020
Unsweet Tea
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June 11, 2020
I Hate...
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June 12, 2020
We Weren’t Meant to Last
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June 13, 2020
It’s a Never Ending Cycle
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June 14, 2020
The Events After
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June 15, 2020
Pressing Restart
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June 16, 2020
Our Unfortunate Round Two
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June 19, 2020
Reality Strikes Again
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June 21, 2020
You Called Out My Name Tonight
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June 22, 2020
What is a Career?
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June 23, 2020
Stuck in the Leaves
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June 25, 2020
A Late Father’s Day
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June 26, 2020
Ode to a Birthday Card
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June 27, 2020
It’s been two weeks without you.
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June 28, 2020
The Clock is Almost Dead.
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June 30, 2020
Painting Our Room
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 10:58am
Bio:
Katerina Stoykova is a Bulgarian from Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
How could I not?
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
MAN PAGES: JOIN COMMAND
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June 02, 2020
MAN PAGES: KILL COMMAND
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June 03, 2020
MAN PAGES: FORK COMMAND
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June 04, 2020
MAN PAGES: JOBS COMMAND
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June 05, 2020
MAN PAGES: MORE COMMAND
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June 06, 2020
MAN PAGES: BREAK COMMAND
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June 07, 2020
MAN PAGES: WHO COMMAND
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June 08, 2020
MAN PAGES: GIT COMMAND
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June 09, 2020
MAN PAGES: CLOCK COMMAND
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June 10, 2020
MAN PAGES: TALK COMMAND
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June 11, 2020
MAN PAGES: MANPATH COMMAND
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June 12, 2020
MAN PAGES: EX COMMAND
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June 13, 2020
MAN PAGES: STRIP COMMAND
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June 14, 2020
MAN PAGES: BEEP COMMAND
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June 15, 2020
MAN PAGES: ACCEPT COMMAND
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June 16, 2020
MAN PAGES: DAEMON COMMAND
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June 17, 2020
MAN PAGES: TEST COMMAND
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June 18, 2020
MAN PAGES: BORDER COMMAND
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June 19, 2020
MAN PAGES: DIFF COMMAND
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June 20, 2020
MAN PAGES: LAST COMMAND
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June 21, 2020
MAN PAGES: MAKE COMMAND
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June 22, 2020
MAN PAGES: TOUCH COMMAND
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June 23, 2020
MAN PAGES: RENAME COMMAND
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June 24, 2020
MAN PAGES: WHEREIS COMMAND
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June 25, 2020
MAN PAGES: TRAP COMMAND
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June 26, 2020
MAN PAGES: BIND COMMAND
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June 27, 2020
MAN PAGES: TRUE COMMAND
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June 28, 2020
MAN PAGES: UNSET COMMAND
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June 29, 2020
MAN PAGES: CHOKE COMMAND
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June 30, 2020
MAN PAGES: LESS COMMAND
Saturday, May 23, 2020 @ 8:31pm
Bio:
Kathleen recently returned to Lexington after a too-big adventure, living in Oxford, England for 8 months. She is excited to settle back into her hometown, and LexPoMo seems a great way to start.
Reason for signing up:
A poem a day is just the right size of adventure...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 @ 5:28pm
Bio:
Kathleen Gregg lives in the country with her husband and one cat, who she secretly thinks is her Muse.
Reason for signing up:
LexPoMo is a terrific poetry forum that I wouldn't miss for anything!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
A Few Spare Thoughts
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June 02, 2020
Better Police Training
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June 03, 2020
Reading List
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June 04, 2020
Flower Garden Display
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June 05, 2020
Pure Zen, Snapshot of Elle at Age 3
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June 06, 2020
Poem for Jenny
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June 07, 2020
Poem for the Seventh Day
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June 08, 2020
Silence is Not Golden
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June 09, 2020
Poetess Interruptus
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June 10, 2020
Not a Matching Set, found poem from a Value City circular
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June 11, 2020
RAY
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June 13, 2020
Russian Sage
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June 14, 2020
Love and Longing at the Dentist's
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June 16, 2020
Making Music
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June 17, 2020
Idyllic to Idolatry
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June 18, 2020
A Mug's Life
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June 19, 2020
Voortman Windmill Cookies
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June 21, 2020
Are You Hungry?
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June 24, 2020
Another Basal Cell Skin Cancer
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June 25, 2020
Truth
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June 27, 2020
Stranded
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June 28, 2020
The New Reality Show
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June 29, 2020
Nocturne
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June 30, 2020
Clutching Hope
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 @ 8:49pm
Bio:
Katie is a Lexington expat who misses that place something terrible, but she’s keeping the faith and gettin’ by through poetry, video games, and other assorted media, ranging from dumpster-fire trashy to 100% wholesome content.
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 11:22pm
Bio:
Katie is a wife and mom. She homeschooled her boys and continues to teach in the homeschool community. She has written poetry on and off since childhood.
Reason for signing up:
I like a challenge.
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 1:32pm
Bio:
plain college student, loves Jesus, accidentally murdered her impulse-buy lithops plant last october and is still sad about it
Reason for signing up:
Because this community is kind and it's an honor to see this community create. And also it feels compulsory after all this time!
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 7:44pm
Bio:
Kelley is a distiller & a dog mom
Friday, May 22, 2020 @ 4:12pm
Bio:
kelly once won the richard taylor poetry award and has been chasing that high ever since.
Reason for signing up:
because i find i’m more productive creatively when i have eyes on me.
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Poems:
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June 02, 2020
happy pride month.
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June 03, 2020
holler body
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June 04, 2020
nullius paenitendum (without regret)
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June 05, 2020
no justice. no peace.
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June 06, 2020
the sun sticks to your skin
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June 08, 2020
shots fired
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June 09, 2020
athena
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June 10, 2020
a person dies many times
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June 11, 2020
fallen angel
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June 12, 2020
the wrong monster
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June 13, 2020
wandering
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June 14, 2020
threesome with a memory
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June 15, 2020
blue
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June 16, 2020
all the weapons
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June 17, 2020
strategy
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June 18, 2020
flagellation
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June 19, 2020
jubilant
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June 20, 2020
you should know i have a slight lisp
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June 21, 2020
who i am in relation to you
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June 22, 2020
babel
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June 23, 2020
my hard-won mythology
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June 24, 2020
canticle
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June 25, 2020
symbolic gestures
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June 26, 2020
things the virus has told me i took for granted
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June 27, 2020
fiending
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June 28, 2020
enrosadira
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June 29, 2020
consumed
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June 30, 2020
reflection
Friday, May 22, 2020 @ 4:29pm
Bio:
Ken L. Walker lives in Kentucky, is the author of Twenty Glasses of Water (Diez, 2014) and Antworten (Greying Ghost, 2017), and has work in the anthologies, Oil & Water (Typecast, 2010) as well as Devouring the Green (Jaded Ibis, 2015). Additional prose and poetry can be found in Boston Review, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Brooklyn Rail, The Seattle Review, Atlas Review, Lumberyard, and Tammy. He is translating the complete work of the German poet, Georg Herwegh.
Reason for signing up:
Sublimity City!
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 @ 5:34pm
Bio:
Kendall Brooke is just a girl who loves to read poetry, and sometimes attempts to write it.
Reason for signing up:
I am hopeful that this will help me grow as a writer and be a good way to express myself.
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 11:20pm
Bio:
Kim is alive and well during this pandemic pandemonium and thanks her lucky stars. Poetry portrays our humanity and compassion. Read a poem now.
Reason for signing up:
The poetic voice needs to be heard and continually practiced.
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Poems:
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June 21, 2020
June 20
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June 22, 2020
Jean
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June 23, 2020
B L T
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June 24, 2020
Catalpa Tree
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June 25, 2020
Haiku
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June 26, 2020
Barbie Garden
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June 27, 2020
We’ll Always Have
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June 28, 2020
Jack
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June 29, 2020
It Must Be Sharon
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June 30, 2020
Someone Said It’s OK If You Can Just Send Money
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 4:02pm
Bio:
thanks for having me on the show guys it was really fun
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 12:46pm
Bio:
Kim is a writer who was born in southeast Kentucky, but raised split between Kentucky and Michigan. She writes both freeform and spoken word poetry. She has also started to dabble in fantasy writing. Her inspiration for her writing comes from fellow writers, past trauma, and everyday life. When she isn't writing she can be found hiking in the Kentucky wilderness, cooking something sweet, or most likely curled up reading with her dog Rusty.
Reason for signing up:
I thought it could be a good outlet for my writing and I've been wanting to become more involved in the Kentucky writing community.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 9:17pm
Bio:
Kimi Hardesty is originally from Dallas, Tx and has had a career as an RN for over 3
decades. She also writes creative nonfiction and poetry.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because honestly, I really love poetry and would like to write more.
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 12:27pm
Bio:
Kris teaches high school English (mostly from his dining room table these days). He recently used money saved during the pandemic to buy a surfboard. He knows that’s weird, so you don’t have to tell him.
Reason for signing up:
I love getting up to poetic shenanigans.
Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 4:05pm
Bio:
Kristi Maxwell is the author of seven books of poems, including My My (Saturnalia Books, 2020) and Bright and Hurtless (Ahsahta Press, 2018). She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she teaches creative writing and literature.
Reason for signing up:
I had such a good month doing the NaPoWriMo challenge and wanted to give it another go
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 @ 11:09am
Bio:
Kristina Erny is a third culture poet who grew up in South Korea. Her poetry has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Yemassee, Bluestem, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona, and her work has been the recipient of the Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Open Prize and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award. After many years of teaching internationally, she now lives in Kentucky with her family.
Reason for signing up:
Because it will be a good challenge!
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:38am
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 4:41pm
Bio:
University of Kentucky student. Outdoor enthusiast. Lover of coffee table books.
Reason for signing up:
Motivation.
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 11:17pm
Bio:
a leo with a fragile sense of identity
Reason for signing up:
i have a lot of feelings, i have a lot to say, i love a platform
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
insatiable
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June 02, 2020
our voices harmonize when we say goodbye
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June 05, 2020
self reflection in quarantine #7
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June 06, 2020
my tongue is the barrier between my mouth and my brain
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June 07, 2020
blood circulation
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June 08, 2020
i was always told you can determine how well someone takes care of themselves by looking at their fingernails
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June 10, 2020
magnetic poetry on my friend’s fridge
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June 11, 2020
it would be kind of embarrassing if you read this...
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June 12, 2020
my self portraits are my best work, though i’m not sure they look like me
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June 16, 2020
there is no poetic way to say this
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June 17, 2020
6/17/20
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June 18, 2020
18/21
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June 21, 2020
saturn
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:23am
Bio:
Traveler, scribbler, keeper of dogs, cats, and horses, and aspirant to a tidier life
Reason for signing up:
New poems will be something to show for this strange,lost June, spent hiding from a deadly virus.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 7:42pm
Bio:
70 years of bullshit was worth it. I'm a grandpa!
Reason for signing up:
Again, Jim Lally's fault.
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 7:48am
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Royal Decree
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June 02, 2020
Qualified Immunity
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June 03, 2020
must be the carburetor
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June 04, 2020
Action Formula
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June 05, 2020
if even once your love were true
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June 06, 2020
in threes
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June 07, 2020
Definition of Art
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June 08, 2020
MEMO
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June 09, 2020
One-Liner Poem #69
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June 10, 2020
growing up in a cloud of tobacco smoke
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June 11, 2020
Thursday Night
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June 12, 2020
apple
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June 13, 2020
May 16, 1889
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June 14, 2020
in the backwaters of the Orion arm
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June 15, 2020
the street painter's chair
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June 16, 2020
ippa nigh sahngh
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June 17, 2020
Eddie's rabbit choked on a carrot
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June 18, 2020
from trees
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June 19, 2020
right in the middle of the meeting
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June 20, 2020
Area 50
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June 21, 2020
untitled
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June 22, 2020
ROAD TRIP
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June 23, 2020
hey you
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June 24, 2020
The Lower Decks
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June 25, 2020
untitled
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June 26, 2020
Dr. Penis
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June 27, 2020
Buffalo Jump
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June 28, 2020
Guys' Night Out, in Four Parts
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June 29, 2020
Beauregard
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June 30, 2020
West
Saturday, June 6, 2020 @ 1:01am
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Poems:
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June 06, 2020
Rose Tinted Cheeks
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June 07, 2020
3 am thoughts
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June 09, 2020
failed offspring
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June 11, 2020
SQUIRREL
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June 12, 2020
True Colors
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June 13, 2020
Costar
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June 14, 2020
i’m not her, and it shows
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June 17, 2020
Once Compared Hands
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June 20, 2020
I am still melting
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June 29, 2020
Useless Prince
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 5:58pm
Bio:
Leatha Kendrick is the author of five poetry collections, most recently And Luckier, from Accents Publishing. She has led community-based workshops in poetry and life writing and mentored writers for more than twenty years in Kentucky and Appalachia. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, New Madrid Review, the Southern Poetry Review, the James Dickey Review, Appalachian Journal, Still: An Online Journal, the Baltimore Review, The Southern Women’s Review, and in anthologies including The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume 3—Contemporary Appalachia; and What Comes Down to Us – Twenty-Five Contemporary Kentucky Poets. She lives and writes in Lexington, Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up to have the chance to write my way through June with Lexington's community of poets, who never fail to inspire me.
Monday, May 25, 2020 @ 10:48am
Bio:
Lee is a professional in cinema & television, a musician in the military, and a family man.
Reason for signing up:
My wife’s doing this too, thought it would be a fun exercise.
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 12:43pm
Bio:
Lennart Lundh is a poet, photographer, short-fictionist, and historian. His work has appeared internationally since 1965.
Reason for signing up:
Because the words are waiting to be said.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
A Temple at Athens
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June 02, 2020
Two, Please
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June 03, 2020
Doris and Rock, Saturday Evening
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June 04, 2020
Box Canyons
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June 05, 2020
We declare
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June 06, 2020
Spring, 1967
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June 07, 2020
Misdemeanors
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June 08, 2020
Descriptive Languages
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June 09, 2020
Parallel Universes
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June 10, 2020
The Least of These
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June 11, 2020
Examinations
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June 12, 2020
Town Square, Morning
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June 13, 2020
Battle Scars
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June 14, 2020
Lines in Survival
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June 15, 2020
Pillars in the Desert
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June 16, 2020
Hug and Kiss
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June 17, 2020
ancient patterns
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June 18, 2020
Some Things Remain
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June 19, 2020
Lions and Tigers and Holes
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June 20, 2020
Silences
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June 21, 2020
Until Someone Gets Hurt
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June 22, 2020
We Deal in Memories
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June 23, 2020
A Room
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June 24, 2020
Summer in the City
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June 25, 2020
Reminders
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June 26, 2020
Perpetual Motion
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June 27, 2020
Us, a la Ginsberg
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June 28, 2020
Hauntings
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June 29, 2020
Confessing Others' Sins
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June 30, 2020
The Favourite One
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 11:46am
Bio:
Leslie is a lover of complex female characters, Liverpool FC, and Milton's "Sonnet 23." She finds joy in meandering long runs through horse country and reading good books on park swings.
Reason for signing up:
As an English teacher, I believe it's important to practice what I preach: 1) be willing to fail and then grow through the process, 2) be an active and compassionate member of a writing community, and 3) never stop learning. Huzzah!
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 9:40pm
Bio:
Leslie is a high school English teacher, mother, video game fanatic, and amateur poet.
Reason for signing up:
A writing group I'm part of informed me of the event and I thought it sounded great.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 9:11pm
Bio:
After decades as a psychologist and painter, Linda found her poetry voice later in life. She is having a great time with writing and with her poetry community.
Reason for signing up:
I like the idea of having the intention to write often, maybe daily!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
May 30, 2020 in Black and White
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June 02, 2020
Social Distancing Hunger Pangs
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June 05, 2020
What Did I Know?
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June 06, 2020
The Price of Healthy-at-Home
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June 08, 2020
Something To Do
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June 10, 2020
collaborator
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June 16, 2020
A Poet Lost
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June 19, 2020
My Garden, My Companion
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June 21, 2020
Delirium
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June 24, 2020
New Jersey Siesta
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June 25, 2020
There Yet?
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June 26, 2020
Spooky Driveway
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June 29, 2020
Septuagenarious
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June 30, 2020
Terminus
Sunday, April 19, 2020 @ 6:49am
Bio:
Linda Bryant worked as a journalist for 30 years before deciding to write poetry full-time. She moved to Berea, Kentucky, in 2019 and established a sanctuary for artists and writers.
Reason for signing up:
I participated for the first time last year and really enjoyed the experience. I love Kentucky's warm and supportive writers community.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
More Than Once
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June 02, 2020
Roku (six random haiku)
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June 03, 2020
Self Preservation
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June 04, 2020
Good Daughter
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June 05, 2020
Uncle Grady Approaches Creativity, Rage & Desire
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June 06, 2020
Sudden Death
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June 07, 2020
Dear Tracy, I Will Send My Team of Superheroes
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June 08, 2020
Abraham Lincoln as a Free Spirit
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June 09, 2020
Protohuman Ode
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June 10, 2020
Apologies to the Goddess
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June 11, 2020
Hard Forgiveness in the Story of My Rage
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June 12, 2020
After Writing About Loss, 100 Words for Joy
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June 13, 2020
Ode to Angela Merkel
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June 14, 2020
Daria Counteracts the Intolerant World
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June 15, 2020
Flipping Fear
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June 16, 2020
An Artist Knows
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June 17, 2020
Fleeting Harmony in the Pancake Cafe
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June 18, 2020
Haibun in Memory of a Hobo
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June 19, 2020
Song to a Garter Snake
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June 20, 2020
Quest & Elegy
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June 21, 2020
Dishes & the Nature of Love (Five Tanka)
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June 22, 2020
True Stories
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June 23, 2020
My Grandfather as a River Saint
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June 24, 2020
Without the Right Words
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June 25, 2020
Neighboring Farm
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June 26, 2020
Lime & Darjeeling: a Haibun
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June 27, 2020
Asking for Help During the Time of Trump
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June 28, 2020
Seven Haiku
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June 29, 2020
On Hazelwood Avenue 2001
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June 30, 2020
Atom Bomb in Three Acts
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 @ 10:49pm
Bio:
Linda is a new poet. She began 3 years ago @ Carnegie Center by being challenged by poetry classes and is presently enrolled in the Poetry Gauntlet 2020.
Reason for signing up:
To grow as a poet and share my work with others.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Darkness
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June 02, 2020
Haiku 1
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June 03, 2020
Deadheading
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June 04, 2020
Mag Lev Train
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June 05, 2020
empathy
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June 06, 2020
On our front porch
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June 07, 2020
Strawberry Moon
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June 08, 2020
Japanese Maple
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June 09, 2020
The Sting
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June 10, 2020
It’s the Normal Things
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June 11, 2020
Four Leaf Clovers
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June 12, 2020
Send me a Sign
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June 13, 2020
Chef’s Hands
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June 14, 2020
Mama’s Chicken & Dumplins
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June 15, 2020
Purple Plums
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June 16, 2020
Clancy
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June 17, 2020
Just in case
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June 18, 2020
Hauser-my Covid cellist crush
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June 19, 2020
Limelight
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June 20, 2020
Fearful
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June 21, 2020
Gail
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June 22, 2020
Certainy
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June 23, 2020
Goldfinch
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June 24, 2020
Dysmorphia
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June 25, 2020
Jealousy
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June 26, 2020
People watching @ Legacy Trail
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June 27, 2020
Jolted
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June 28, 2020
Traveling outside the zone
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June 29, 2020
Waiting
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June 30, 2020
Hummingbird
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 12:12pm
Bio:
Lisa Miller Henry dabbles in writing when she isn’t teaching high school English, hiking, or cheering for her son at hockey games.
Reason for signing up:
I love spending the first month of summer reading and writing with the LexPoMo community.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Ode to Someone Who Doesn’t Deserve It
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June 06, 2020
Binge
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June 10, 2020
Unambiguous Lines
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June 14, 2020
Immersion
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June 15, 2020
How She Learned Not to Trust in Four Parts, Maybe More
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June 22, 2020
Consume
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June 26, 2020
Serenade
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June 27, 2020
To the assholes who have set off fireworks every damn night since June 1:
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June 28, 2020
Summer Storms
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 10:53pm
Bio:
Lisa Miller Henry dabbles in writing when she isn’t teaching high school English, hiking, cheering her son at hockey games, or plotting the next stamp for her passport.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Ode to Someone Who Doesn’t Deserve It
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June 06, 2020
Binge
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June 10, 2020
Unambiguous Lines
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June 14, 2020
Immersion
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June 15, 2020
How She Learned Not to Trust in Four Parts, Maybe More
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June 22, 2020
Consume
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June 26, 2020
Serenade
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June 27, 2020
To the assholes who have set off fireworks every damn night since June 1:
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June 28, 2020
Summer Storms
Saturday, May 2, 2020 @ 11:54am
Bio:
Just a regular person. A mom, a wife, a career girl, a friend, a sister, a lover, a Goddess, a Queen.
But I digress.
She has deep roots in the Bluegrass state and currently lives in Texas.
Reason for signing up:
The words in my head ache to get out and poetry is the language the speak.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Lights out
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June 02, 2020
Closing
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June 03, 2020
Mask
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June 04, 2020
Open
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June 05, 2020
Mat
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June 08, 2020
Cover
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June 09, 2020
Free
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June 10, 2020
Rebel
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June 11, 2020
My boy
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June 12, 2020
red light
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June 13, 2020
Threads
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June 14, 2020
Random
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June 15, 2020
Prayer
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June 16, 2020
F*** (with apologies for language)
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June 17, 2020
Rocks
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June 19, 2020
Heavy
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June 21, 2020
Dumped
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June 22, 2020
Surface
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June 24, 2020
Birds of a feather
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June 25, 2020
Pieces
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June 26, 2020
Wings
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June 27, 2020
Chances
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June 28, 2020
Project
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June 29, 2020
Passage
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June 30, 2020
Words
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 8:13am
Bio:
Liz Prather teaches writing at Lafayette High School.
Reason for signing up:
It's June.
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 12:10pm
Bio:
Lorelei is a writer who enjoys writing experimental
fiction and poetry.
Reason for signing up:
Local poets are awesome.
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 6:37pm
Bio:
Lori Taylor writes everything from notes to poetry to NaNo WriMo novels to family history for sheer pleasure. She suppressed the urge to write until her mid to late thirties. She enjoys reading, puzzling, and being creative for fun and for problem solving. Her favorite genre is Historical Fiction. Lori celebrates her Appalachian heritage in writing and table conversations with coffee. She wears many hats and feels all the feels all the time. She lives in Georgetown, Kentucky with her husband, Mark, their three daughters, 2 Shelties, and a black torby cat named Kitty (who demands a seat at the table on top of Lori’s desk invited or not.) Lastly, Lori encourages anyone who has something on their mind and heart to write it down. If you don’t feel like it, do it anyway (just like she tells her daughters when it’s time to do the dishes!)
Reason for signing up:
LexPoMo invites participants and readers alike to celebrate life through verse no matter what level of expertise, and I love that about this community.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Won't You Be My Neighbor
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June 02, 2020
Keep Trying
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June 03, 2020
Two of a Kind
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June 04, 2020
I Grin Like a Monkey
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June 05, 2020
Poverty in Whole
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June 06, 2020
My Superpower
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June 07, 2020
I Like a Sharp Pencil
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June 08, 2020
Vacations Are For Moms Too, Right?
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June 09, 2020
When Is Nap Time?
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June 10, 2020
A Fantastical Classified
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June 11, 2020
Monkey Business
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June 12, 2020
Dinnertime Reverie
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June 13, 2020
Don’t Wanna But Gonna
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June 14, 2020
Climbing Higher on Knees
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June 15, 2020
It's What You Do
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June 16, 2020
Wise Cracks
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June 17, 2020
When Glad Rags Are Sad Rags
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June 18, 2020
It's Okay to Be Old-fashioned
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June 19, 2020
The Face of Love
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June 20, 2020
May This Be the Day
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June 21, 2020
My Dad Is...
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June 22, 2020
Ideas in the Night
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June 23, 2020
Go the Distance
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June 24, 2020
The Absolute Value of Parents and Post-Its
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June 25, 2020
Polishing Character
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June 26, 2020
Ain't Gonna Do It
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June 27, 2020
Wooden Grace and Faithfulness
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June 28, 2020
Lovers of Language and Sanguine Life
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June 29, 2020
Devilish Dividends
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June 30, 2020
The Mom / Tween Great Divide
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 @ 8:54pm
Bio:
Lucy is a poet from the hills of Eastern Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
I’ve been a closet poet for several years. I published a few pieces many years ago, then lost my nerve to submit. I signed up last year and chickened out so I’m determined to participate this year.
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 5:25am
Bio:
Lynn is forever on the hunt to tackle and name elusive feelings that blow through her. The meat of her matter is her average daily life.
Reason for signing up:
a friend invited
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 12:50pm
Bio:
Mary Lou is a mother, grandmother, Chaplain and extroverted introvert who loves music, art, drama and dance.
Reason for signing up:
I love the challenge of investing myself in the reflective and creative expression of poetry.
Monday, May 25, 2020 @ 1:43pm
Bio:
M.L. is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, who is pursuing a PhD in psychology. She is a big fan of reading, traveling, eating, and contemplating existential questions.
Reason for signing up:
I wanted in on all the fun.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 3:11pm
Bio:
M.Wells is a teacher in Lexington and has been participating in LexPoMo for at least five years.
Reason for signing up:
I need to write more.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Mother and Father
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June 02, 2020
Guilt
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June 03, 2020
Hex the Racists
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June 04, 2020
Macbeth in 17 syllables
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June 05, 2020
Strawberry Moon
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June 06, 2020
London
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June 07, 2020
Star field
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June 08, 2020
Run
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June 09, 2020
The City
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June 10, 2020
Gold
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June 12, 2020
Neighbor
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June 13, 2020
Decay
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June 14, 2020
Venice
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June 15, 2020
Found Poem page 150
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June 16, 2020
Light
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June 17, 2020
The canvas
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June 18, 2020
Witch Weather
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June 19, 2020
March
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June 21, 2020
Solstice Sunrise at Stonehenge
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June 22, 2020
Next year
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June 24, 2020
Reminder
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June 25, 2020
Genius and clutter
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June 26, 2020
Black hole
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June 27, 2020
midsummer
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June 28, 2020
River stone
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June 29, 2020
Happy New Year
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June 30, 2020
#wearyourdamnmask
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 @ 1:02am
Bio:
Maddie is just living life
Reason for signing up:
I did this last year and wanted to do it again!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
The Sun Will Shine Again
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June 02, 2020
Run Away
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June 03, 2020
Sincerely, The Wild Ones
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June 04, 2020
Soul
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June 05, 2020
Chocolate Shuffle
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June 06, 2020
Nature
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June 07, 2020
Butterflies
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June 08, 2020
Today was a movie
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June 09, 2020
I am her.
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June 10, 2020
Magic
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June 11, 2020
A June Night
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June 13, 2020
Time Machine
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June 14, 2020
Class of 2020
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June 16, 2020
Boodaloodaloodaloo
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June 17, 2020
The Sun Still Rises When It Rains
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June 18, 2020
Small Town
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June 19, 2020
Take A Day
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June 20, 2020
Goonies and Pogues
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June 21, 2020
One Mississippi
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June 22, 2020
Backroad
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June 24, 2020
Numb
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June 26, 2020
Milky Way
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June 27, 2020
Stamping Ground
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June 29, 2020
A Dandelion in a Sunflower Field
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June 30, 2020
Summer Fades
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 @ 7:09pm
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
living alone
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June 02, 2020
i bit my tongue over and over and over again
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June 03, 2020
tightly folded note from a teenage girl
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June 04, 2020
waking up to gray hair
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June 05, 2020
quarantine with a lazy bigot and a busy spider
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June 14, 2020
sleeping stretched out in the middle
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June 15, 2020
checking over your shoulder on a walk by yourself
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June 17, 2020
no skeletons
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June 18, 2020
manners and class
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June 19, 2020
And then go to bed
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June 20, 2020
solstice
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June 22, 2020
seeth
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June 23, 2020
better for it all
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June 24, 2020
did you hear that too?
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June 26, 2020
untitled
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 6:47pm
Bio:
Madison is a senior at the University of Kentucky. She is finishing up her undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Gender Studies with a certificate in undergraduate social science research. She is a staff advocate at Ampersand Sexual Violence Resource Center. Outside of these educational and professional pursuits she spends most of her time training and obsessing over her perfect pup, Corndog. She enjoys documentaries, pretending she can keep a plant alive, and Diet Coke.
Reason for signing up:
I remembered to take my Vyvanse today.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
1.
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June 02, 2020
2.
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June 03, 2020
On Writing a Poem While the World is on Fire
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June 04, 2020
Ode to Collagen
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June 06, 2020
I Found Out Which of my Facebook Friends
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June 08, 2020
I Lead a Training on Self-Care
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June 09, 2020
You Don’t Even Own This Land
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June 10, 2020
The Quickest Way to Un-train Your Dog
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June 11, 2020
untitled
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June 12, 2020
Gratitude
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June 13, 2020
Returning
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June 21, 2020
untitled
Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 9:09pm
Bio:
Maggie is a high school social studies teacher in central Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
Because it's June. It's what we do.
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 12:40pm
Bio:
Maggie Rue Hess is a Pennsylvania native turned Southerner. She is an educator in between states, at the moment.
Reason for signing up:
I have a claim to a Kentuckian, and I was told that's a good reason to join.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Mom-Friend Equity Work (Part 1)
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June 02, 2020
Family Names
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June 03, 2020
Bath Time
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June 04, 2020
The Scripture According to Spiderman 1:1
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June 05, 2020
For Breonna Taylor
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June 06, 2020
I Write Sad Poems Instead of Talking About My Feelings
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June 07, 2020
Mom-Friend Equity Work (Part 2)
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June 08, 2020
Cessna Me
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June 09, 2020
Ironic
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June 10, 2020
The Scripture According to Spiderman 1:2
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June 11, 2020
The Trouble with Moving (Part 4)
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June 13, 2020
New Messages
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June 14, 2020
A Haiku
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June 17, 2020
Portrait in a Wedding Dress Shop's Fitting Room
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June 20, 2020
Skunk Mating Season
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June 21, 2020
The Hydrangeas Name Themselves
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June 23, 2020
Mom Friend Equity Work (Part 3)
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June 25, 2020
Birthday Cake Flavored
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June 26, 2020
On Average
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June 27, 2020
We Enter the Garden
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June 28, 2020
Heart Sits Heavy
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June 29, 2020
Truth or Dare
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June 30, 2020
A Cat Named for a Teddy Bear
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 8:33am
Bio:
Maggie Ruth is a rising junior. When she is not writing, she enjoys cooking, singing, gardening, and reading.
Reason for signing up:
I want to believe I can convince myself to write everyday but I know that's not the case. However, I tend to follow through if there's some sort of structure to hold me accountable so I decided that this would be a great opportunity to get me writing seven days a week. I also tend to write more if there's social interaction around it.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
after it's over
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June 02, 2020
there is always hope
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June 03, 2020
thrifted
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June 04, 2020
Tomorrow
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June 05, 2020
the flight that never left
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June 06, 2020
untitled
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June 08, 2020
Monday morning run
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June 09, 2020
awaiting the haircut
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June 10, 2020
chaotic space
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June 11, 2020
there's something to be said about packing
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June 12, 2020
I've missed this
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June 13, 2020
Sleepless
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June 22, 2020
unfamiliar
Friday, May 8, 2020 @ 7:00pm
Bio:
Malinda O’Quinn is a wife to Bronson, Mama to Scout and cat mom to 6 weird fur creatures. She is also sometimes her own person, but most of the time she’s cleaning, baking sourdough bread and caring for others. Sometimes she even attempts to write poetry.
Reason for signing up:
My husband made this website and told me I should. Damn it, Bronson.
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:29am
Bio:
Mani is a 23 year old Afro-Latino man who has lived in Lexington for 8 years. He still hasn’t figured out if he’s living in the North or the South. He still doesn’t get the whole “horses” thing.
Reason for signing up:
It’s been a minute since I last spoke up about what’s really on my mind. It’d be a shame to stay hushed at a time like this.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
America’s Worst Joke
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June 02, 2020
Words of Warning Sewn into a Hymn
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June 03, 2020
Two Fingers Too Many
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June 05, 2020
Someone needs to hear this right now and it’s probably me.
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June 06, 2020
This will be hard to hear...
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June 07, 2020
During the rapture god left my spirit as my blood did rise
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June 08, 2020
A name popped into my head as I faced the mirror
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June 09, 2020
And the meat is tender
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June 10, 2020
True Love
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June 11, 2020
Dressed for cotillion at the debutante ball
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June 12, 2020
untitled
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June 14, 2020
Neighborhood Watch Committee
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June 15, 2020
Absolute Total Raging Bitch
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June 17, 2020
untitled
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June 18, 2020
Relax Your Jaw, Honey
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June 20, 2020
A conversation siri accidentally overheard at a seance
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June 23, 2020
untitled
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June 28, 2020
How is my date going?
Thursday, April 30, 2020 @ 9:44pm
Bio:
manny jg is a lifelong louisvillian. traveler, recovering person, father, actor, medical professional, passionate lover of magic in life and the page, poet, musician, and audioblogger. have a wonderful day, enjoy the great kentucky voices, and warm community we have here.
Reason for signing up:
my new friend deanna told me about it.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
i like your face
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June 02, 2020
the bay in gilead
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June 03, 2020
my traumatic past
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June 04, 2020
Minneapolis, 38th and Chicago
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June 05, 2020
love/hate
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June 06, 2020
when i love you isn’t on the menu
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June 07, 2020
speechless
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June 08, 2020
foolish heart
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June 09, 2020
tonic in the flow of my life
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June 10, 2020
up from the catacombs
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June 11, 2020
the butler is a freaking vampire and the dead are alive, run away, run away
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June 12, 2020
... she knows, for M ...
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June 13, 2020
in memoriam
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June 14, 2020
Naghmeh, a Ghazal
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June 15, 2020
Evelyn and Lucy
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June 16, 2020
nostalgia's follies, color me green/color me blue, i don't know if I really love you
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June 17, 2020
19 & 1)one-some reason(s) to suicide
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June 18, 2020
The Other Woman
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June 19, 2020
the other woman, part ii
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June 20, 2020
voices
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June 21, 2020
smack-peck-in-sevens
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June 22, 2020
scales
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June 23, 2020
seven river haiku and tanka
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June 24, 2020
like god
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June 25, 2020
you were all my reasons
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June 26, 2020
Perhaps, perhaps it’s time for us to quit
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June 27, 2020
a special providence—
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June 28, 2020
winter gogyohka
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June 29, 2020
for you, you know who you are
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June 30, 2020
God save my neighbors, they’re just like me
Monday, May 25, 2020 @ 8:42am
Bio:
Margaret Heltzel spends much of her time in pursuit of life’s small wonders. She finds the sun to be energizing, words to be enlightening, and people to be inspiring - common discoveries that connect a world of optimistic observers. She quotes Kurt Vonnegut as often as opportunity allows and reads Mary Oliver in every trice of silence.
Reason for signing up:
The joy of creating
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:29am
Bio:
Margaret Russell is a musician and filmmaker. She is one half of the Lexington queer industrial duo BRALETTE.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because my friend Sam reminded me to :)
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 7:57pm
Bio:
Marta Dorton is a Lexington artist and writer working with painting, mix media, poetry and memoir. Color and texture, layers and connections form the basis of Marta’s work and help describe the view from her life.
Reason for signing up:
Creation of new work and building better writing habits are my goals.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 @ 2:09pm
Bio:
Mary Allen is a late-blooming poet. She lives in Lexington.
Reason for signing up:
It wouldn't be June without LexPoMo.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
June 1, 2020
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June 09, 2020
Exercising the Vote
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June 11, 2020
The Way It Is
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June 15, 2020
Artifacts
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June 19, 2020
Comparing Attitudes between The Haves and The Have-Nots
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June 26, 2020
My Father
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June 27, 2020
Redress Pending?
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June 28, 2020
On the Nature of Poems and Puzzles
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June 29, 2020
Pup and Parapet
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June 30, 2020
June 30, 2020
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 6:32pm
Bio:
Matt writes poems when he can't do anything else.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because I need to get back in the saddle.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Distancing #1
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June 03, 2020
To the children we still plan to have
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June 04, 2020
Distancing #2
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June 05, 2020
Death of a Naturalist
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June 06, 2020
Memory Research
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June 09, 2020
Distancing #3
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June 12, 2020
Monument to Human Industry
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June 16, 2020
Seedhead
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June 26, 2020
Death of an Amateur Caver
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June 27, 2020
On the Phone with Dad, a Monologue
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 5:49am
Bio:
Maya is a current college freshman who loves languages, soba, tree climbing, and noticing the little things.
Reason for signing up:
I’ve been doing lexpomo for years and no year needs to be documented quite like 2020. Let’s share our experiences and try to find a source of stability.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:09pm
Reason for signing up:
no better time to start a treasure hunt with a bunch of friends and strangers.
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 10:03am
Bio:
Meghan is a sophomore at the University of Kentucky. She is majoring in political science with a minor in music performance.
Reason for signing up:
I have recently re-discovered my love for writing and poetic expression.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
On Silence
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June 02, 2020
Patience
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June 03, 2020
Turning
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June 04, 2020
Birds
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June 05, 2020
Hesitation
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June 06, 2020
A Prayer in July
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June 07, 2020
Hemerocallis
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June 08, 2020
A Symphony of the Wind Chimes
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June 09, 2020
You and you and you
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June 10, 2020
Renewal
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June 11, 2020
Another Toss of a Coin
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June 12, 2020
Outweather
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June 13, 2020
Inertia
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June 14, 2020
Tortoise and Hare
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June 15, 2020
Rotunda
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June 16, 2020
Removal
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June 17, 2020
Terpsichore
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June 18, 2020
An Ode to the Cumulonimbus
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June 19, 2020
Stillness (Just As it Was When I Was Nine)
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June 20, 2020
To Stand On the Edge of the Unknown
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June 21, 2020
Return
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June 22, 2020
Trireme
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June 23, 2020
Gardening
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June 24, 2020
For Auld Lang Syne
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June 25, 2020
In-person
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June 26, 2020
Backroads
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June 27, 2020
Grievances
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June 28, 2020
To Make the Tides Cease
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June 29, 2020
Signs
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June 30, 2020
Say "Good Night"
Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 8:19pm
Bio:
Megyn has been writing poetry for only a few years. She found it to be healing to her spiritual, mental, and physical health. Megyn also dabbles in knitting, vegan cooking, herbalism, growing food, reading, resisting the patriarchy, and drinking coffee.
Reason for signing up:
I want to share my words with others.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 8:39pm
Bio:
Melissa Helton lives and teaches in southeast Kentucky, having migrated from Toledo, Ohio a decade ago. Her work has appeared in Still: The Journal, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and more. Her chapbook, Inertia: A Study, was published by Finishing Line Press. She is currently working on two books, one a poetry collection about queer polyamory in Appalachia, and the other a nonfiction global study of women and girls through the international postcard exchange Postcrossing.
Reason for signing up:
I thrive when given a deadline. And we always need more poetry in our lives, yes? ... Yes.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Looking at my House on Google Earth
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June 02, 2020
Amnesia, Burning
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June 03, 2020
Kindergarten
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June 04, 2020
The Shape of What Never Was
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June 05, 2020
Happy Birthday, Breonna Taylor
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June 06, 2020
Life and Death in the Daniel Boone National Forest
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June 07, 2020
For I Will Consider the Tick, the Flea, the Holy Mosquito
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June 08, 2020
Occhiolism
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June 09, 2020
Installations
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June 10, 2020
My Porch as America
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June 12, 2020
Pulse-Loving
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June 14, 2020
Tin Butterfly
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June 15, 2020
Explaining the SCOTUS Ruling to my Queer Kids
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June 16, 2020
Where I’m From
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June 20, 2020
Solstice
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June 24, 2020
Going Through Our Dead Father’s Things on Father’s Day Before Our Mother Dies
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June 27, 2020
Affect / Effect
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 10:23am
Bio:
Melissa is based out of Akron, Ohio, where she lives with her husband, Cory, and their two feline companions: BMO & Novella. Melissa is a designer and photographer who spends her days assisting students with pretty much whatever they might need at the art school where she earned her BFA.
Reason for signing up:
Last year was an affirming and eye opening experience, reminding me why I write and that I do love it. I'm hopeful this year will bring about similar outcomes, even if it's just to get me to focus on something non-virus / work related for more than 5 minutes.
Thursday, June 4, 2020 @ 12:32pm
Bio:
Melva Sue, a native Kentuckian, writes about a range of human emotion and experiences. She loves, also, gardening and grand kids and reading.
Reason for signing up:
It's become tradition, though this year time is so hit and miss and full of grief that I'm late.
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Poems:
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June 04, 2020
My Heart is Heavy With & for
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June 05, 2020
When my father has a stroke and dies
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June 07, 2020
The carrots & beets & turnips & parsnips
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June 08, 2020
I thought I’d removed my fitbit during sleep & find
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June 17, 2020
A female deer tick
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June 18, 2020
Driving across the bluegrass parkway mid morning #1
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June 19, 2020
Driving across the bluegrass parkway mid morning #2
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June 20, 2020
Driving across the bluegrass parkway mid morning #3
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June 21, 2020
What would happen if we stopped using “race”
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June 22, 2020
Picking sugar snaps peas—a preview for cataracts—
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June 24, 2020
Picking sugar snaps—even with five passes—
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June 25, 2020
Picking sugar snaps—even into late June—
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June 26, 2020
Open red tool box, find the box cutter, pull out the saved cardboard boxes,
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June 28, 2020
28 June 2020
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June 29, 2020
Surrounded by books, papers, houseplants, gardens out the windows, new grass growing, thunder booming, lights, lots of lights,
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 11:36am
Bio:
Meredith loves apples with peanut butter.
Reason for signing up:
Because I am a secret poet who is trying to do brave things.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 10:30pm
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 6:12pm
Bio:
Michelle is a cook, wife, and pet-mom, who lives in Frankfort, Ky. She is a graduate of Kentucky State University (B.A. English) and Sullivan University (A.S. Culinary Arts). She loves colorful, vivid imagery, ingredients, and experiences, as well as dragons, dumplings, real and imagined magic, music, passion, and naps.
Reason for signing up:
I want to use this as a vehicle to document and process current events. And my wife made me.
Saturday, May 23, 2020 @ 5:19am
Bio:
Mike’s work has appeared in magazines including Cagibi Literary Journal, Stoneboat, The Aurorean, and The Ocotillo Review, and in Mike’s book, “Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic,” (Rabbit House Press, 2020). He resides in Central Kentucky, summers in Ecstasy, winters in Despair, and can be found at mikewilsonwriter.com
Reason for signing up:
A reason to write, a chance to share, and a way to enjoy the writing life of others
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
untitled
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June 02, 2020
Crows
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June 03, 2020
Lost and Found
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June 04, 2020
Silence
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June 05, 2020
Inciting a Poetry Riot
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June 06, 2020
Monkey-mind
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June 07, 2020
an assault in progress...
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June 08, 2020
Pews Blues
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June 09, 2020
America Sings After Curfew
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June 10, 2020
Po-lice Dispatch . . .
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June 11, 2020
Astral Beautician Lipsticks the Pig
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June 12, 2020
Loaves and Fishes in Reverse
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June 13, 2020
The Substance of Faith
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June 14, 2020
A Thunderstorm is an Act of Love
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June 15, 2020
Ghost of Grassy Knoll
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June 16, 2020
I am the letter 'e'
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June 17, 2020
Walk in the Park #1
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June 18, 2020
Walk in the Park #2
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June 19, 2020
Industrial Design
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June 20, 2020
perspective
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June 21, 2020
Cat Jail
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June 22, 2020
Crow Moment
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June 23, 2020
The Screen
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June 24, 2020
Dialectic in a Dream
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June 25, 2020
Just Get Out of the Car
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June 26, 2020
The Enlightenment Never Happened
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June 27, 2020
Smell It
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June 28, 2020
Twitter
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June 29, 2020
Coffee Klatch with the Aryans
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June 30, 2020
Commencement
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 @ 9:39pm
Sunday, May 10, 2020 @ 12:51am
Bio:
Morgan Adams is a lapsed poet who lives in Lexington, Ky., with her husband, her dog, and a great quantity of dust.
Reason for signing up:
What else do I have to do?
Sunday, May 24, 2020 @ 8:40pm
Bio:
Raised in a small river town in Eastern Kentucky, Morgan Evans fought hard to overcome the obstacles that face too many young Kentuckians: poverty, misunderstood mental illness, and a pattern of generational abuse that writhes beneath the picturesque surface of rural Appalachia. At 18, Morgan left an abusive home to create a new life. She graduated from Morehead State University and has become a successful painter, writer, and business owner.
Reason for signing up:
An artistic outlet for summer!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
It looks like chaos
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June 02, 2020
It's Always Been Time
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June 03, 2020
Old English Letters
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June 04, 2020
What Would Be so Wrong With Requiring Police to Have a Four-Year Degree?
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June 05, 2020
Silence Is a Killer
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June 06, 2020
Not the Time
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June 07, 2020
Purple Bubble Gum
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June 08, 2020
No Justice, No Peace
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June 09, 2020
Values
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June 10, 2020
Dirty Library Kid
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June 11, 2020
Severe Winds
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June 12, 2020
Burn Your Hatred
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June 13, 2020
Intrusive Past
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June 14, 2020
Statues
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June 15, 2020
Bisexual
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June 16, 2020
June 2020
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June 17, 2020
A Prayer From the Headlines
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June 18, 2020
Murky Hours
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June 19, 2020
What About Charged??
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June 20, 2020
I’m Going to Pass
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June 21, 2020
Dry Rot
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June 22, 2020
How Does He Get Away With That?
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June 23, 2020
They Deserve No Honor
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June 24, 2020
Trust Issues
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June 25, 2020
Sawdust
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June 26, 2020
Bolts and Washers
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June 27, 2020
Could Permanently Damage
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June 28, 2020
It’s a Trap
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June 29, 2020
Smith Corona Electra 120
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June 30, 2020
So I’ll Dial
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:06pm
Bio:
Morghan is a Lexington educator who has attempted LexPoMo many times before, but this is the year.
Reason for signing up:
With the climate of the world, I have more to say than ever before.
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 7:05am
Bio:
author, poet, publisher
Reason for signing up:
It's an annual ritual.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
First Hummingbird
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June 02, 2020
Quick to anger
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June 03, 2020
For Stewart N. Parrish
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June 04, 2020
My father's near death experience
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June 05, 2020
How the world has changed
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June 06, 2020
I Remember
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June 07, 2020
Ode
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June 08, 2020
Messages
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June 09, 2020
I fall asleep on the sofa
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June 10, 2020
Shannon
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June 11, 2020
Effie
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June 12, 2020
Robert wrote poetry
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June 14, 2020
iii.
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June 15, 2020
Writing in my car
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June 16, 2020
I want to dream
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June 17, 2020
Poetry in
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June 18, 2020
For a woman I loved
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June 19, 2020
If, while you sleep,
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June 20, 2020
I climb Jack's Knob
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June 21, 2020
June sunrise, calling e, f, e, f, g, g
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June 22, 2020
Text message
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June 23, 2020
As midnight approaches I realize
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June 24, 2020
Sunlight's glow and the sudden wind gust
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June 25, 2020
Weakness
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June 26, 2020
In this pandemic
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June 27, 2020
I water
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June 28, 2020
Standing in a boat, a feeling floated
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June 29, 2020
Love Poem
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June 30, 2020
There will be love
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 @ 9:34am
Bio:
N. J. is a homeschooling mom of two, and lives with her husband of 11 years in Lexington, KY. With a background in theatre, music, and screenwriting, N. J. loves finding creative outlets of any kind. Since filling notebooks with angst-y poetry in high school, she’s excited to flex those muscles again.
Reason for signing up:
A friend asked for other to join her. I used to write and read lots of poetry, and I’d like to explore that side of me again!
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 @ 8:26pm
Bio:
Nancy is a second-career poet who just wrapped up 37 years of teaching German and Spanish. From her front porch she sees a future of abundant poetic endeavors.
Reason for signing up:
I live for Lexpomo! And this year it's about the only thing that didn't get cancelled.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Dawn, June 1, 2020
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June 04, 2020
Bird's-Eye View
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June 06, 2020
Kroger Grocery Pickup Order, June 11, 2020
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June 10, 2020
Scented with Birdsong
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June 14, 2020
Sweetened Milky Chai
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June 17, 2020
Trimming Truth
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June 21, 2020
Words Like Rain
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June 30, 2020
Between the Rows
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 9:57am
Bio:
Naomi Clewett writes less than she should and has occasionally published poems here or there.
Reason for signing up:
Community & motivation.
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 8:29pm
Reason for signing up:
To be involved in a community and to stretch my creativity.
Thursday, May 7, 2020 @ 8:58pm
Bio:
Nettie Farris writes poems.
Reason for signing up:
Because I've been here from the beginning.
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 1:37pm
Bio:
Nollie Palmer is a Visual Artist and Poet living in Lexington.
Reason for signing up:
LexPoMo has been a fun and interesting challenge for multiple years now.
Friday, May 15, 2020 @ 2:31am
Reason for signing up:
To challenge myself to be more creative!
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 10:45am
Bio:
Pat Owen is the author of two books of poetry, Crossing the Sky Bridge published by Larkspur Press and Orion's Belt at the End of the Drive by Accent's Publishing. She divides her time between Louisville and Sarasota.
Reason for signing up:
I love the writing community and motivation, Last year I submitted a poem every day in June. Let's see if I'm that devoted this year!
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
On Relating to Men
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June 02, 2020
Boy Child
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June 03, 2020
The Story
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June 04, 2020
My Courtyard
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June 05, 2020
Cuban Poet
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June 06, 2020
Inhalation
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June 07, 2020
On This Breezy Day
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June 08, 2020
Father Jerry on Vacation
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June 09, 2020
Extremes
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June 10, 2020
Routine Days
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June 11, 2020
Tennis Clinic
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June 12, 2020
My Own Personal Walden Pond
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June 13, 2020
The God Part
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June 14, 2020
The Amaryllis
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June 15, 2020
Yesterday's Drive
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June 16, 2020
Calories
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June 17, 2020
Upon Watching the Film Dark Waters
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June 18, 2020
New Lamp
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June 19, 2020
To My Ex Girlfriend
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June 20, 2020
Childhood Vision of Self Reliance
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June 21, 2020
Transition
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June 22, 2020
Billie Hertz Gallery
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June 23, 2020
Packing
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June 24, 2020
Petting Zoo
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June 25, 2020
View from the Back Seat
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June 26, 2020
Reading my Poems for the Church Ladies
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June 27, 2020
Their Anniversary: July 19
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June 28, 2020
Ordinary Joy
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June 29, 2020
Music
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June 30, 2020
Surprised by Death
Saturday, May 9, 2020 @ 3:04am
Bio:
Patrick Johnson lives and writes in Morehead, Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
I enjoy it.
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Poems:
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June 01, 2020
Flame Speak
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June 02, 2020
Wound
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June 03, 2020
Boromir
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June 04, 2020
7:30 PM
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June 05, 2020
Cow Branch
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June 06, 2020
Dance
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June 07, 2020
Third Grade
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June 08, 2020
Wrong Side
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June 09, 2020
Bloodline
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June 10, 2020
Sleeping In
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June 11, 2020
The Return
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June 12, 2020
Parched
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June 13, 2020
Letting Go
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June 14, 2020
Melody
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June 15, 2020
Want
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June 16, 2020
On Writing
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June 17, 2020
Waiting for the Wrong Her
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June 18, 2020
Blood and Thunder
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June 19, 2020
People
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June 20, 2020
Laboring