A.R. Koehler
Bio:
Your typical anxiety prone gen z kid with a splash of rhymes and an amateur obsession with soil.
Magnolia
Bio:
Magnolia enjoys writing as a creative outlet, and a form of therapy.
Kris Gillis
Bio:
Kris teaches high school English and lives near a river.
Reason for Signing Up:
At this point, this is what I must do in June.
Coleman Davis
Bio:
Coleman spends most of his time in a world made of poetry.
He splits his time between Lexington and Berea taking care of multiple buildings, and pets and plants.
Reason for Signing Up:
To be in a community of poets for a month. It's fun :-)
Maya Pemble
Bio:
Maya is a college student who loves writing, cooking, and being in the forest.
Reason for Signing Up:
Gotta keep tradition.
Chelsie Kreitzman
Bio:
Chelsie Kreitzman is a native of Michigan who now lives and writes in Lexington, Kentucky.
Reason for Signing Up:
For motivation, community, and fun!
Katrina Rolfsen
Bio:
Writer by day, superhero by night.
Reason for Signing Up:
This is my third year of LexPoMo! I loved the first two, and I’m excited to write and read more poetry!
Ian Brenner
Bio:
One foot in the grave and I need six
Reason for Signing Up:
a girl
Bill Brymer
Bio:
Photographer and writer from Louisville, Ky.
Dangerfield Yella
Bio:
Born
Living
The rest to be determined
Reason for Signing Up:
Its what I do
H.A.
Bio:
H.A. lives and loves boldly. She enjoys finding quiet moments among the chaos of existing on this little blue pebble in the vast universe.
Reason for Signing Up:
LexPoMo is a wonderful community of writers, thinkers, readers, and adventurers. The poets in this community inspire me.
Alissa Sammarco
Bio:
Alissa Sammarco is a writer and attorney. She lived in the West and South before coming home to the Ohio River Valley. Through sharp imagery, much of which is drawn from the oceans, rivers and forests where she lived. Her work has appeared in Sheila-Na-Gig, Black Moon Magazine, Change Seven, Quiet Diamonds, Main Street Rag, Stone Canoe, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Rat’s Ass Review, But There was Fire in the Distance (Workhorse Press) and elsewhere. She is the author of four chapbooks, Beyond the Dawn, I See Them Now, Moon Landing Day, and coming soon, Cupcake Day (December 2024). www.AlissaSammarco.com.
Reason for Signing Up:
Ya gotta go to da mattresses!
Brigit Truex
Bio:
Impressions, emotions, viewpoints are all aspects that inspire Brigit Truex in her poetry as well as her paintings.
Reason for Signing Up:
I definitely need the impetus of LexPoMo to get me focused on my writing, and what a great opportunity to see what other posts are sharing!
Nollie Palmer
Bio:
Nollie is a visual artist based in Lexington Ky
Lee Chottiner
Bio:
Lee Chottiner is a poet and journalist living in Louisville, Kentucky. His poetry has appeared in several print and digital journals. An alumnus of the Poetry Gauntlet, Lee is currently working on his first chapbook, which he hopes to have out later this year. This is Lee’s second LexPoMo.
Reason for Signing Up:
Some poets need a kick in the proverbial pants to write. You’re reading about one right now.
Sue Neufarth Howard
Bio:
Sue Neufarth Howard: Published poet and visual artist, past member of Greater Cincinnati Writers League (GCWL), Linton Street Writers. Received Third Prize and/or Honorable Mention in several Ohio Poetry Day Contests. Poetry chapbooks: TreeScapes, EarthWords, In and Out of the Blue Zoo and Haiku Moments, available on amazon.com
Reason for Signing Up:
Challenging me to write some new poems to enter in this May event.
Karen George
Bio:
Karen George, a native Kentuckian, has published Swim Your Way Back (2014), A Map and One Year (2018), Where Wind Tastes Like Pears (2021), and forthcoming Caught in the Trembling Net (2024). She published her debut fiction, How We Fracture, a collection of short stories, in January 2024. She enjoys photography and visiting art museums, cemeteries, gardens, the woods, mountains, and historic river towns.
Reason for Signing Up:
Because I’ve been writing a poem-a-day in June with other LEXPOMO poets since the beginning. I've always found it inspiring. Having a daily deadline is a good thing for me. I work well under pressure.