Bio for 2025
Danielle Valenilla is a Kentucky poet and lifewriting enthusiast whose work delves into the themes of healing and identity excavation. She is a fellow of the National Writing Project and author of Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes. Among a variety of poetry credits, Danielle also judged the Poetry category for the 2014 Indiana State Federation of Poetry Clubs’ 36th Annual Fall Rendezvous Contest and has been a featured reader at many literary events and book launches. She is currently writing her next book.
Reason for signing up:
I was born in Winchester, spent about 30 years in Indiana, and just recently moved to back to Kentucky as an adult. I have been a long-time writer, with an adoration for poetry specifically, but I am a Lexington newbie! I need writer friends. I need community and connection. I also need neuroinclusive spaces to engage with the writing community, so here I am. I am currently writing my next book, and lately writing has felt lonely. I'm signing up, because I am attempting to be socially brave and put myself into the Lexington writer sphere (though it's intimidating to be honest - there are so many amazing writers around here). This is a good challenge for some writing accountability, and it is an opportunity to connect with others interested in forming artistic friendships. Live long and line break, y'all!
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2025 PDA
- June 02, 2025 Cilantro Kisses
- June 03, 2025 5 Ways I Knew I Was Old Now
- June 04, 2025 Shipmates
- June 05, 2025 Synchronicities
- June 06, 2025 Unmasking Mona Lisa
- June 07, 2025 On Unhoused
- June 08, 2025 Specifically
- June 09, 2025 In Office
- June 10, 2025 Naked While Wearing Clothes
- June 11, 2025 Upon Learning That Mushrooms Use a Fungal Network to Sustain the Trees
- June 12, 2025 Death by Situationship
- June 13, 2025 The Four Seasons
- June 14, 2025 Inanimate Ties
- June 15, 2025 No Rest for the Awake
- June 16, 2025 Shield Flower
- June 17, 2025 I'm Not Angry Anymore
- June 18, 2025 Watermelon
- June 19, 2025 Surveillance
- June 20, 2025 Is It Okay to Waste Good Weather?
- June 21, 2025 Haiku #575
- June 22, 2025 Self-Doubt is Starvation
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