Bio
Manny Grimaldi co-founded Yearling Poetry Journal in collaboration with Chris McCurry as editor-in-chief at Workhorse in Lexington, and worked the publication as managing editor from 2021 to 2026. He recently won the Browning Literary Club Prize in Poetry from WKU, awarded by Creative Writing faculty, and spends much time performing his work regionally. Manny is author of two full length poetry collections-- Riding Shotgun with the Mothman, and Finding a Word to Describe You.
Reason for signing up:
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Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2026 Persona Poem as Snowfall
- June 02, 2026 Winter Time Travel
- June 03, 2026 Sing Psalm of Gratitude
- June 04, 2026 Mona on Pebble Beach
- June 05, 2026 Seaside Sestina for June Carter
- June 06, 2026 Helper
- June 07, 2026 Heavenly Bodies
- June 08, 2026 Numbers 6 : 24-26
- June 09, 2026 Poets
- June 10, 2026 Japanese Italian Theatre
- June 11, 2026 I am full of heartache, can you hear it?
- June 12, 2026 An Ars Poetica for Some
- June 13, 2026 Nothing More, after Shakespeare, Poe, Zemsky and Andy Warhol
- June 14, 2026 Cocoon
- June 15, 2026 Agony in Stucco (2026, plaster and water)
- June 16, 2026 Long Lost Lonesome Cinquains
- June 17, 2026 The Sonnet-Ghazal of the Recalcitrant Fish
- June 18, 2026 America, 1980
- June 19, 2026 Voyage
- June 20, 2026 Ambergris
- June 21, 2026 Esme
- June 22, 2026 Gomorrah
- June 23, 2026 Ellipsis
- June 24, 2026 Reflections
- June 25, 2026 Southern Comfort
- June 26, 2026 Sestina for Johnny Cash
- June 27, 2026 Purple Sestina
- June 28, 2026 Bookshelf Sestina
- June 29, 2026 Nothing Happens Sestina
Badges
Participated in the 2020 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
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
Participated in the 2025 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
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