Lexington Poetry Month was created by Hap Houlihan and Katerina Stoykova-Klemer to get Lexington, Kentucky writing and sharing poetry for the entire month of June.

Since we’ve already signed up 68 poets (at the time of this write-up), many of you already know about Accents Publishing’s LexPoMo Writing Challenge, but if you don’t, it’s a great way to exercise your writing skills in a warm, supportive community.

Your goal in the Writing Challenge is to write a poem every day throughout the month of June. Then you build up the courage to submit your poem to the Accents Blog. Putting your work into the public is never easy, so you don’t have to submit everything (although the most honest, raw poems usually get the most comments). But if you submit at least five poems during those thirty days, then one of them will be picked for publication in an anthology from Accents Publishing. We have already published two anthologies, Her Limestone Bones and This Wretched Vessel, all of which were originally submitted to the Accents Blog.

And the LexPoMo Writing Challenge wouldn’t be possible without the support of some amazing sponsors. You can view them all on our sponsors page, as well as our special funders who have purchased a banner that will be shown at the top of the blog throughout the month of June. All of our sponsors are community-minded organizations that we have personally sought out, and if you could visit our Sponsors page and show them some support, we’d really appreciate it.

Sign ups are open until May 31st at 11:59pm, so be sure to sign up (by clicking here) sooner rather than later, and you can also check out everyone else who’s signed up by clicking here.