Ann Haney
Bio:
Ann is a painter who also loves poetry. She taught studio art for many years and now takes time to experience and explore art forms that she finds of interest.
Reason for Signing Up:
I learned about LexPoMo from Deanna Mascle and it has been a great expereince!
Lucy James
Bio:
Lucy James writes from a little hilltop in Eastern Kentucky.
Reason for Signing Up:
I like the challenge of writing every day. It motivates me to write.
Cathy Perkins
Bio:
Cathy Perkins, broke and broken multi-talented human whose part-time jobs include horse-crossing guard, zero-turn mower operator and a small business general partner, spends many hours a day writing poetry and comedy, going down internet rabbit holes, staring out the window in a total state of mindless meditation. Cathy is the author of Udder Uproar, 2024 Accents Publishing. https://accents-publishing.com/udderuproar.html
Reason for Signing Up:
I signed up because I am part of the Lexington Poetry family. I wouldn't miss LexPoMo for any reason except for illness or death and I would try to figure out how to be part of the LexPoMo community from the bed or from the grave.
HAROLD SHERMAN
Bio:
Harold Sherman is a freelance musician and has been for most of his adult life. He is also a Donovan Scholar at UK, having previously received his MM in Composition in 1999. He once taught piano lessons to rising standup comic star Ariel Elias and recorded a Christmas CD with Laura Bell Bundy. He did not, however, invent the internet--nor has he ever dated Taylor Swift.
Reason for Signing Up:
I heard about it at Writing Practice at Carnegie Center.
Misty Skaggs
Bio:
artist, activist, barefooted backwoods poet.
Sav Noël Hoover
Bio:
Sav is an Appalachian poet living in Ravenna, Ky with her two kids, two cats, and two dogs. She only has one husband.
It is her hope that her work can offer comfort and provoke thought in a world that isn’t always comfortable.
Reason for Signing Up:
I want to further challenge myself and my work!
Eric W. Willis
Bio:
Eric W. Willis is a writer, reader, sometimes editor, visual artist, traveler, and caretaker of two lively fish and two even more lively felines. He is a graduate of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University. He lives and works in the heart of Kentucky.
Reason for Signing Up:
The challenge of it.
Debra Glenn
Bio:
Debra has published two poetry collections, "a pretty, long walk" and "light moves". Debra participated in the Carnegie Center's Poetry Gauntlet in 2020 and is a frequent reader at open mic events.
Reason for Signing Up:
I have participated the last few years and find it a good challenge to write a poem a day!
Toni Menk
Bio:
As an Air Force Brat, Toni had to move a lot. She was born on Guam and lived in England, Ohio, North Carolina and Massachusetts. She eventually settling in Kentucky. Toni has been writing poems as long as she can remember. In middle school her parents told her that if she wrote 100 poems they would buy her a guitar. She wrote the poems and got her guitar.
Toni attended the University of Kentucky where she earned a BA in Anthropology.
As a sophomore in college, needing a summer job, she hired on as a telephone operator at GTE in Lexington. Thirty years later she retired as an Equipment Technician.
In 1981 she moved to rural Casey County Kentucky where she raised children, blackberries and shiitake mushrooms.
After retiring Toni grew organic vegetables and sold them at the farmers market. Needing a new creative outlet, Toni taught herself the ancient art of Lampwork and eventually started doing craft shows as Cyrilda’s Torch. She is a member of KGAC (Kentucky Guild of Artist and Craftsmen) and the Sheltowee Artisans.
Reason for Signing Up:
Kim Shaver made me do it.
Gwyneth Stewart
Bio:
Gwyneth is a retired lawyer and practicing poet.
Reason for Signing Up:
I have participated for several years and love the challenge to write daily and the community of poets.
Jennifer Elam
Bio:
Jennifer has spent her life writing and is now part of the Coming of Age women’s writer’ s group. As a psychologist, dancer and writer, she is just completing her book called “Dancing through the Fires”; a personal narrative about healing grief and trauma through (co)creativity, together, with God, Self and Others.
Reason for Signing Up:
To share my writing and creativity with others in the hope that someone will find it helpful.
Jennifer Barricklow
Bio:
Jennifer Barricklow is a writer and freelance editor in Lexington KY. In addition to writing poetry, she studies tarot, putters in the garden, and makes stuff out of yarn. She participates in the literary ecosystem, locally and globally, as much as possible.
Reason for Signing Up:
I signed up because I love being part of Lexington's amazing poetry community!
LittleBird
Bio:
LittleBird gazes into the abyss of the existential challenge before her as she tries to write her biography. At midlife, that seems fitting. She lives in Austin, TX with her two kids and dog. She has a job she loves and she is working toward a Masters degree. She's saving up for her farm dream back in KY, and likes to write poetry to release the words that bounce around in her heart.
Reason for Signing Up:
I love the challenge of writing something each day and enjoy reading the contributions from my creative peers.
Nancy Jentsch
Bio:
Nancy has been writing poetry since 2008 and is currently participating in the Stafford Challenge by writing a poem a day. Her work can be read in numerous on-line and print journals, in her collection "Between the Rows" and in her chapbooks.
Reason for Signing Up:
I have great respect and admiration for this writing community and the support for poets it provides.
Sonya Pavona
Bio:
Sonya is a poet who is trying to rediscover her love for writing poetry again. She is an English Major at Georgetown College and is headed to Oxford in the spring!
Reason for Signing Up:
Yay, poetry!
Joseph Nichols
Bio:
Joseph Allen Nichols has been a LexPoMo participant long enough he doesn’t remember how long he has been a LexPoMo participant. He currently lives in Frankfort with his two sons, his mom, and a thousand pets and spirit guides.
Reason for Signing Up:
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Except Halloween.
Lennart Lundh
Bio:
Lennart Lundh is a poet, photographer, historian, and short-fictionist. His work has appeared internationally since 1965.
Reason for Signing Up:
It’s become a habit.
Meredith McCurry
Bio:
Meredith lives in Lexington with her husband, daughter, and doggies. She’s expecting a baby boy and looks forward to a hot summer of poetry.
Reason for Signing Up:
Because I love Christopher McCurry and the communities he creates.
Kel Proctor
Bio:
Kel is an undergraduate student at Bellarmine University majoring in English and minoring in both Creative Writing and Women and Gender Studies. Kel is published in Ariel Literary Magazine and The White Squirrel and was runner up in the Annette Allen Poetry Contest.
Reason for Signing Up:
Some of my friends mentioned LexPoMo to me and I figured this was the best way to ensure that I write poetry over the summer!
SpitFire1111
Bio:
SpitFire interprets life through the poems she writes therefore life is a poetic journey.
Reason for Signing Up:
I signed up to challenge myself to write a poem everyday,
