Bio
Alissa Sammarco is a writer and attorney from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work has appeared in various online and print journals, and expresses the connection between parents and children, husbands and wives and all of us. “Paper Doll” won the International Impact Book Award in May 2026. She has published 5 chapbooks and 2 full length collections.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2026 Translating Trinity
- June 02, 2026 There Were Always Three
- June 03, 2026 Oh come on now, you had it coming
- June 04, 2026 Nursery Rhymes
- June 05, 2026 Steve McQueen is dead. Long live the Queen
- June 06, 2026 Ode to a marriage in American Sentences
- June 07, 2026 I count the years by the number of frames perched on foreheads,
- June 08, 2026 She’s a real charmer
- June 09, 2026 Before we grow old
- June 10, 2026 My husband wants to join LexPoMo - or - he is sick of a poem a day before coffee
- June 11, 2026 Did you ever think I’d be here again
- June 12, 2026 This is gonna hurt
- June 13, 2026 How to Write a Poem that Gets You Published
- June 14, 2026 They bring their petty dramas
- June 15, 2026 Anti-vaxers refused their mumps shots
- June 16, 2026 Exercise
- June 17, 2026 Put down the knife, it’s only a hotdog
- June 18, 2026 The most beautiful word in the English language
- June 19, 2026 Don’t cry for me Argentina, the truth is …
- June 20, 2026 It always takes a day for the birds to come back
- June 21, 2026 On your 70th birthday
Badges
Participated in the 2021 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2022 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2023 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2024 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
NOTE: Because poets have the ability to hide their badges and because registrations on LexPoMo.com only started in 2017, this may not represent an accurate portrayal of poems published by their associated poets, badges assigned to a poet, a poet's participation in the Writing Challenge, or anyone's relationship to Lexington Poetry Month, the Writing Challenge, or any other events, organizations, or persons.
To find a particular poem, please use the search bar at the top or bottom of the page. If you are a poet and see something missing, inaccurate, or incomplete, please reach out to us on our Contact page.