Rosemarie Wurth-Grice | LexPoMo 2025

Born in small town Elkton, Kentucky, Rosemarie Wurth-Grice grew up reading and writing poetry. She graduated with a B.A. in Journalism and a M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. <br />She is a retired High School English and AP Language and Composition teacher and founding member of the Not Dead Poets’ Society (NDPS), a writing group which meets regularly to provide support to local poets and writers. <br />Her poetry and/or short stories have appeared in Kentucky Monthly, Kudzu, Kentucky English Bulletin, and the Journal of Kentucky Studies. <br />A widow and mother of three grown sons, the poet lives on her cut flower and blackberry farm near the banks of the Barren River. Here, she wrote her chapbook Darkness Called Us Home, a reflective anthology of poems that delve into a life spent raising sons, teaching English, tending her flowers, knowing great love, and suffering great loss. Her poetry examines the personal and universal human condition through the lens of the natural landscape, a landscape that is the setting of her past, present, and future where all three timelines overlap in memories. grief, and finding healing in poetry and the natural world.<br />

Friend and fellow writer Michele Lenoir told me about LexPoMo and encouraged me to sign up. I always enjoy a challenge and any method that will "force" me to sit down with pen and paper.