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Sponsored by Workhorse, Lexington Poetry Month is an easy to use platform for poets to publish and share their work in an attractive way. The community is supportive and diverse, commenting and encouraging one another throughout June. Money we raise goes to maintaining the cost of the website and publishing the yearly anthology. Our goals are to provide every poet (~150) a copy of the anthology, lower printing costs, and expand opportunities offered during Lexington Poetry Month, such as featured readings and poetry workshops.

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Kayla Mattox-Frye | LexPoMo 2026

https://substack.com/@kaylamattoxfrye

Bio (she/her)

Kayla is a Mississippi native who now calls Lexington home. She believes there is nothing that can connect us to the beauty within ourselves and others quite like poetry.

Poems Submitted This Year:

June 01, 2026 Adaptation
June 02, 2026 In Praise of Water
June 03, 2026 How to Start Over After Absolute Devastation
June 04, 2026 At the liquid edge of twilight
June 05, 2026 The Body Keeps Receiving Instructions
June 06, 2026 Lupine
June 07, 2026 Accent, or Regional Variations on Grief
June 08, 2026 Poem of Protest, after Catherine Pierce
June 09, 2026 Love in the Age of Microplastics
June 10, 2026 Grief in Haiku
June 11, 2026 Upon Learning that Bees Have Their Own form of Broken Communication
June 12, 2026 Poem with Entries from My Notes App
June 13, 2026 Medusa at the Stoplight
June 15, 2026 This Is Where We Stand
June 16, 2026 Confession, with Birds
June 17, 2026 Upon Learning that Kudzu is Not a form of Biological Warfare
June 18, 2026 An Imaginable Sadness
June 19, 2026 this heart
June 20, 2026 This poem is not a parable

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