Bio for 2021
Melva Sue Priddy is a poet, gardener, and mammaw who lives outside Lexington. Her book of poetry, The Tillable Land, is forthcoming from Shadelandhouse Modern Press in April 2022.
Reason for signing up:
I look forward to LexPoMo every year. The challenge. The poets. The words.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2021 Exercise in the Winter Month
- June 02, 2021 What Silence Says
- June 03, 2021 At Least One Exquisite Moment Every Day
- June 04, 2021 Unpredictable Weather
- June 07, 2021 Deep Time
- June 08, 2021 Everything Has Memory
- June 09, 2021 Failure and Invention Have Walked into a Bar
- June 15, 2021 The Delta Has Opened
- June 17, 2021 The Point of Walking Alone in Autumn
- June 18, 2021 My Garden, My Altar
- June 19, 2021 Longest Day of the Year
- June 20, 2021 Soothing Disobedience
- June 21, 2021 What Goes Through My Head Sometimes, Too Often, Now I Think About It, and That’s Probably Why I Don’t Have a Poem to Post Tonight
- June 23, 2021 We Need More Than Soothing Disobedience, Now, to Move Forward Not Backward
- June 26, 2021 Life: A Series of Poems
- June 28, 2021 You So Attached Yourself to Me
- June 29, 2021 Trees Are Worthy of a Soul Today
- June 30, 2021 Saturday Morning Outdoor Yoga
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
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