Bio for 2020
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.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 03, 2020 On the Circle
- June 04, 2020 Her Cigarettes
- June 06, 2020 I was always good
- June 08, 2020 Scrolling
- June 21, 2020 Our Grandmother Teaching Us Pinochle
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