Bio for 2025
Amy Le Ann Richardson earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University (‘09) and is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Make Believe Worlds We Built Together (Bottlecap Press, 2023) and Who You Grow Into (Finishing Line Press, 2024), as well as a full collection, Out of Places (Pine Row Press, 2025). Her work has been featured in journals such as Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and Still: The Journal. She currently lives and works on her family farm in Carter County, Kentucky, where she writes, grows food, and engages with her community through art and environmental advocacy.
Reason for signing up:
I love and appreciate this community of writers and the inspiration from being part of it. What a joy to be here.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2025 The Satisfaction of Senescence
- June 02, 2025 Late Spring 2025
- June 03, 2025 Happy Landings
- June 04, 2025 No Place We Never Go
- June 05, 2025 Trampling Through the Weeds
- June 06, 2025 Ground Clouds
- June 07, 2025 The Universe Does Not Abide
- June 08, 2025 Overcoming Inertia
- June 09, 2025 I Need the Flowers to Teach Me
- June 10, 2025 Taking My Dogs to the Park after the Evening News
- June 11, 2025 It’s the Sorry We Have in Common
- June 12, 2025 Here and Now
- June 13, 2025 Our Fundamental Needs
- June 14, 2025 No Darker Place
- June 15, 2025 What the Hills Remember
- June 16, 2025 When the Hollers Sang
- June 17, 2025 To Love a Complicated Place
- June 18, 2025 A Breath in the Rain
- June 19, 2025 Ashes
- June 20, 2025 The Bottom Line
- June 21, 2025 Driving in the Dark
- June 22, 2025 Trying, Still
- June 23, 2025 To the Guy with “Hick Titties” Tattooed across His Neck
Badges
Participated in the 2019 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2020 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2021 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
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