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A. A. Kate
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!
A. Lawrence
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 8:56pm
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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
Aaron Reding
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.
Abra McCurry
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 11:31am
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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.
ABW
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 9:45pm
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A guru with a spreadsheet, Austin is learning how to turn formulas into free verse.
Reason for signing up:
Maggie invited me!
Addison Moore
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.
Alex Simand
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.
Website:
alexsimand.com
Allen Blair
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 11:52am
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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.
Website:
ello.co/tinpoet
Alvera Lisabeth
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.
Amanda Holt
Friday, May 8, 2020 @ 8:06pm
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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.
Amanda
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 9:24pm
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Amanda is part fragile flower, part dandelion. Thriving on kindness and your mom jokes.
Amy Le Ann Richardson
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 @ 9:25am
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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.
Website:
chickenhousestudio.com
Anastasia Z. Cunningham
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 2:02am
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Andrea Lawler
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 9:57pm
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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.
Andrew Depew
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 7:52pm
Bio:
Andrew is not to be taken seriously.
Reason for signing up:
To be continued
Anna Walsh
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 10:51am
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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 :-)
anndevil
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 6:28pm
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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!
Website:
anndevilbiss.com
Anne Hayden
Saturday, May 9, 2020 @ 9:29pm
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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.
Arianna McCurry
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 7:19pm
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Bio:
Significantly more hippie than last year :)
Ashley Taylor
Saturday, May 2, 2020 @ 4:35pm
Bio:
Whoa, I love poetry.
Reason for signing up:
Because yay poetry!
Website:
ashleytaylorpoet.com
Ashley Taylor
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:27pm
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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.
atmospherique
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 5:01pm
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Bio:
talk less, say more
Website:
instagram.com/atmo_spherique
Austen
Friday, May 8, 2020 @ 2:17pm
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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.
Austin Green
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 3:33pm
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Austin is a Senior at the University of Pikeville, where he majors in English with a minor in Theatre.
Austin Rathbone
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 @ 8:23am
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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!
B. Elizabeth Beck
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 @ 12:44pm
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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.
Website:
elizbeck.com
B.G.
Friday, April 24, 2020 @ 9:44am
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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.
Website:
Strewsnstraws.blogspot.com
Beatrice
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:04pm
Bio:
La Vielle
Beatrice Underwood-Sweet
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 8:34pm
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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.
Bernard Deville
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 @ 8:07pm
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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.
Bethany Robinson
Sunday, April 19, 2020 @ 12:22pm
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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.
Betsie Phillips
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 12:13pm
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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.
Bill Verble
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 @ 5:17pm
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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.
Website:
twitter.com/BillVerble
BlackGirlFli
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 @ 12:24am
Bio:
Just another Black girl that won't keep quiet.
Body Baghdad
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 3:43am
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Bio:
Body Baghdad is for the chillen
Reason for signing up:
To take part in the inspiration
Brigit Truex
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.
Website:
booksandsuchbybrigittruex.wordpress.com
Bronson O'Quinn
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 10:10am
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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.
Website:
bronsonoquinn.com
Odin
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 7:07pm
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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.
Callie Budrick
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.
Website:
instagram.com/callie_budrick
Carole Johnston
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.
Website:
Face%20Herzog-Johnston
Carrie Elam Spillman
Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 10:27pm
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Bio:
Carrie spends her time thinking of all the things she wants to say. Luckily her words don’t shake when written.
Casey Vázquez
Monday, May 25, 2020 @ 1:27pm
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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.
Chaiya Miller
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 9:15pm
Chappy Chapuk
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.
Chayton Ragsdale
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 11:58am
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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
Chelsea Jordan
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 11:19pm
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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!
Christina Joy
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 1:51am
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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.
Website:
facebook.com/RaidhosJourney
Christopher McCurry
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 11:29am
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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.
Website:
workhorsewriters.com
cl kirby
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 7:37pm
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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.
Cathy Perkins
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.
Colette Crown
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.
Cody Evans
Sunday, May 24, 2020 @ 9:15pm
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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."
Dangerfield Yella
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:43am
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Bio:
Dangerfield Yella from parts unknown. Ashy Larry is my cousin. Drink Water.
Reason for signing up:
RUMBLE YOUNG MAN RUMBLE
D Neal
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.
David Perry
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.
Deanna Mascle
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 12:32pm
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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.
Website:
deannamascle.com
Ladetra Morgan
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.
Website:
appalachianwrites.blogspot.com
Debbie Adams Cooper
Sunday, May 17, 2020 @ 12:51pm
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Debbie Adams Cooper lives and writes in central Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
Because it is a "poetry party."
Debra Glenn
Sunday, May 10, 2020 @ 8:30am
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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?
Delmar Reffett
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!
Dennis Preston
Saturday, May 2, 2020 @ 12:14pm
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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.
Devan Watson
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?
Donelle Dreese
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.
Website:
donelledreese.com
Douglas Self
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 @ 6:46pm
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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.
Dwight Myfelt
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 11:45pm
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Bio:
Dwight is the Fates’ lieutenant; he writes under orders.
E. VanWinkle-Johnson
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 3:02pm
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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.
ESDS
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.
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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.
Website:
umek.pro/company/production
Eileen Rush
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 @ 11:53am
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Eileen Rush is a queer Appalachian poet, writer, and narrative designer. She lives in Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
I love a challenge!
Website:
eileenrushpoet.com
Eliana
Sunday, May 24, 2020 @ 4:26pm
Bio:
student of life
Reason for signing up:
i'm bored af and i need drama
Erin Mathews
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 11:24am
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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)
Elizabeth Thiery
Thursday, April 16, 2020 @ 8:47pm
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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.
Finna Moon Michaels
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 9:46pm
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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.
Gaby Bedetti
Friday, May 8, 2020 @ 1:30pm
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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.​
Website:
gabriellabedetti.wordpress.com
Garkus Sprunk
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 1:18am
Geri
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.
Gregory D. Welch
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 @ 10:33pm
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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.
H.A.
Friday, April 17, 2020 @ 12:40pm
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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.
HAROLD SHERMAN
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 10:43am
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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.
Website:
BuckMarkLLC.com
HB Elam
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 3:57pm
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Bio:
Perpetually enraged for the last four years. Terms and conditions may apply, see inside for details.
Reason for signing up:
Catharsis and connection.
Website:
hbelam.com
Heatherannie
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.
Helen Feibes
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 4:01pm
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Bio:
Helen is a young poet and college sophomore studying brains and always writing.
Reason for signing up:
Keeps me inspired
hunter e. westenhofer
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 2:30pm
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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.
j. hope
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 10:31pm
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Bio:
17 year old activist. Dancer, musician, follower of Christ.
Reason for signing up:
Poetry is my greatest escape.
J. Wise
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 9:01pm
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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.
J. F. Angel
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.
j.l taylor
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 4:28pm
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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.
Jamie Mann
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 5:55pm
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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.
Jamin Waite
Sunday, May 3, 2020 @ 11:57pm
Bio:
Jamin is a master procrastinator who should write more.
jane
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 6:07am
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Bio:
Jane is
Janelle M.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 8:02pm
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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.
Website:
lamp-lighters.com
Jasmine Robinson
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:31am
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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.
Jay McCoy
Monday, April 27, 2020 @ 12:32pm
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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.
Jay St. Orts
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 @ 12:32pm
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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)
Website:
thebrowntweedsociety.com/author/jaystorts
Jean -Marie Welch
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.
Jesus is Victory
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:09pm
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Bio:
j jebson is a writer from kentucky, based in illinois
Reason for signing up:
i enjoy homework and writing feels like homework
Jennifer Barricklow
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 @ 4:28pm
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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.
Website:
dailycompost.wordpress.com
Jennifer Beckett
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.
Jennifer Burchett
Thursday, June 4, 2020 @ 10:54pm
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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.
Jerielle
Saturday, May 9, 2020 @ 10:46am
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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
Website:
etsy.com/shop/kentuckypopart
Jessica Farquhar
Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 5:26pm
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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!
Website:
Jessica%20Farquhar.com
Jessica Swafford
Thursday, April 30, 2020 @ 11:45pm
Bio:
Jessica Swafford is a poet from Georgetown, Kentucky.
Jim Lally
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.
JK Elias
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.
Jo Manczyk
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 9:43am
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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.
John Lackey
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:55pm
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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.
Website:
homegrownpress.com
John McCurry
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.
Jordan Quinn
Sunday, April 26, 2020 @ 3:55pm
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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.
Jordan T. Swift
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 2:20pm
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Bio:
I live in Lexington, Kentucky and I love to write words.
Reason for signing up:
I thought it would be fun
Joseph Allen Nichols
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 1:38pm
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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.
J.A. Gross
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.
Josey Bryant
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.
K. Bruce Florence
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.
K. Nicole Wilson
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 7:55pm
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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.
Website:
bit.ly/3N2pFDN
k.d. white
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 5:42pm
Bio:
k.d. white. Mother of two, lover of nature.
Reason for signing up:
Felt inspired
Karen George
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 @ 12:58pm
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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.
Website:
karenlgeorge.blogspot.com
Kate W
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
Katelyn Weldon
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 @ 9:34pm
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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.
Katerina Stoykova
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 10:58am
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Bio:
Katerina Stoykova is a Bulgarian from Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
How could I not?
Kathleen Crosmer
Saturday, May 23, 2020 @ 8:31pm
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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...
Kathleen Gregg
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!
Katie Cross Gibson
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 @ 8:49pm
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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.
Website:
twitter.com/KRC_Gee
Katie Hassall
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.
Katrin Flores
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 1:32pm
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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!
Kelley Tennille
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 7:44pm
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Bio:
Kelley is a distiller & a dog mom
Website:
ladylovesinked.tumblr.com
kelly casey
Friday, May 22, 2020 @ 4:12pm
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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.
Ken L. Walker
Friday, May 22, 2020 @ 4:29pm
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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!
Website:
kenlwalker.tumblr.com
Kendall Brooke
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 @ 5:34pm
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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.
Kim Kayne Shaver
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 11:20pm
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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.
Kimber Gray
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 4:02pm
Bio:
thanks for having me on the show guys it was really fun
Kimberly Barton
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 12:46pm
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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.
Website:
kimwritesstuff09.wordpress.com
Kimi Hardesty
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 9:17pm
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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.
Kris Gillis
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.
Kristi Maxwell
Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 4:05pm
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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
Website:
ipgbook.com/my-my-products-9781947817166.php?page_id=21
Kristina Erny
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 @ 11:09am
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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!
Website:
kristinaerny.com
l. holley
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:38am
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Lauren
Saturday, May 30, 2020 @ 4:41pm
Bio:
University of Kentucky student. Outdoor enthusiast. Lover of coffee table books.
Reason for signing up:
Motivation.
laney
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 11:17pm
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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
Laurel Fox
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:23am
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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.
Larry Wheeler
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.
Laura Foley
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 7:48am
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Website:
soundcloud.com/laura-foley-6
carrotman
Saturday, June 6, 2020 @ 1:01am
Bio:
i like to write
Leatha Kendrick
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.
Lee
Monday, May 25, 2020 @ 10:48am
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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.
Website:
diffusedlight.wordpress.com
Lennart Lundh
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 12:43pm
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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.
Leslie Davis
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 11:46am
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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!
Leslie Workman
Thursday, May 28, 2020 @ 9:40pm
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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.
Linda Angelo
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!
Linda Bryant
Sunday, April 19, 2020 @ 6:49am
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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.
Linda Freudenberger
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.
Website:
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L.M.H.
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.
L.M.H.
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 10:53pm
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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.
LittleBird
Saturday, May 2, 2020 @ 11:54am
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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.
Liz Prather
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 8:13am
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Bio:
Liz Prather teaches writing at Lafayette High School.
Reason for signing up:
It's June.
Lorelei Watson
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.
Lori Taylor
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 6:37pm
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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.
Lucy James
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.
lynn winter
Monday, May 18, 2020 @ 5:25am
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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
M L Stephens
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 12:50pm
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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.
M.L. Burt
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.
M.Wells
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 3:11pm
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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.
Maddie Coleman
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!
Website:
Mbcolemanphotography.weebly.com
Madeleine Hamilton
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 @ 7:09pm
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Madison Miller
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.
Maggie Brewer
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.
Maggie Rue Hess
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 12:40pm
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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.
Maggie Ruth
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.
Malinda O’Quinn
Friday, May 8, 2020 @ 7:00pm
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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.
Mani
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:29am
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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.
Website:
instagram.com/ciggywet
Manny Grimaldi
Thursday, April 30, 2020 @ 9:44pm
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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.
Website:
generation27x.wordpress.com
M. R. Heltzel
Monday, May 25, 2020 @ 8:42am
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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
Margaret Russell
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 12:29am
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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 :)
Marta Dorton
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 7:57pm
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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.
Mary Allen
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.
Matt Spencer
Monday, June 1, 2020 @ 6:32pm
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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.
Maya Pemble
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.
meadow dawn
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 6:09pm
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Bio:
Meadow was here.
Reason for signing up:
no better time to start a treasure hunt with a bunch of friends and strangers.
Meghan Goins
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.
Megyn
Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 8:19pm
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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.
Melissa Helton
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 @ 8:39pm
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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.
Website:
finishinglinepress.com/product/inertia-a-study-by-melissa-helton
Melissa Olson
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.
Website:
icatchfoxes.com
Melva Sue Priddy
Thursday, June 4, 2020 @ 12:32pm
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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.
Meredith Dill
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.
michelle johnson
Sunday, May 31, 2020 @ 10:30pm
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Michelle Knickerbocker
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 6:12pm
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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.
Mike Wilson
Saturday, May 23, 2020 @ 5:19am
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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
Misty
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 @ 9:39pm
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Website:
ohioswallow.com/book/Planted+by+the+Signs
Morgan Adams
Sunday, May 10, 2020 @ 12:51am
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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?
Website:
instagram.com/mlefaym
Morgan Evans
Sunday, May 24, 2020 @ 8:40pm
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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!
Website:
linktr.ee/dirtycornersvintage
Morghan Fuller
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.
mtpoet
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 7:05am
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Bio:
author, poet, publisher
Reason for signing up:
It's an annual ritual.
Website:
oldseventycreekpress.com
N. J. Clements
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 @ 9:34am
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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!
Nancy Jentsch
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.
Website:
jentsch8.wixsite.com/my-site
Naomi Clewett
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.
nrd
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 8:29pm
Reason for signing up:
To be involved in a community and to stretch my creativity.
nettie farris
Thursday, May 7, 2020 @ 8:58pm
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Bio:
Nettie Farris writes poems.
Reason for signing up:
Because I've been here from the beginning.
Website:
nettie.edublogs.org
Nollie Palmer
Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 1:37pm
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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.
nrd
Friday, May 15, 2020 @ 2:31am
Reason for signing up:
To challenge myself to be more creative!
Pat Owen
Friday, May 29, 2020 @ 10:45am
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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!
Patrick Johnson
Saturday, May 9, 2020 @ 3:04am
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Bio:
Patrick Johnson lives and writes in Morehead, Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
I enjoy it.
Website:
wayfinderthreads.com