Bio for 2020
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.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2020 The day after a final visit
- June 03, 2020 Beauty to Rely On
- June 04, 2020 Second Childhood Home
- June 05, 2020 You must come to them sideways *
- June 07, 2020 The Growing World
- June 09, 2020 How Sound is a Spark
- June 13, 2020 The Gardener and the Garden (Cento)
- June 14, 2020 A Lesson in Possibilities (Cento)
- June 16, 2020 Only as the Day Is Long (Cento)
- June 17, 2020 Among the Enigmas (Cento)
- June 19, 2020 What is it about a room
- June 23, 2020 Kandinsky, “Night,” 1907
- June 25, 2020 Kandinsky, "Capricious," 1930
- June 27, 2020 Spun into the Fork of Confluence (Cento)
Badges
Participated in the 2013 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2014 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2015 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2016 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Sustained Lexington Poetry Month
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