LexPoMo 2015 Selections for Anthology

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The following poems have been chosen to be included in the upcoming anthology of Lexington Poetry Month 2015 poems! Our editor for the anthology (and Editor for Accents Publishing), Christopher McCurry, picked a poem from everyone who submitted this year. Once again, we can’t thank you enough for participating and making this the biggest LexPoMo yet, and even though it seemed like it just happened, we can’t wait to have you all back next year!

Poets are listed alphabetically by first name or pseudonym. If you submitted a poem and don’t see yourself, contact us by clicking here. If you would like to see all submissions for LexPoMo 2015, you can check those out here.

Poet	Poem
Abby	Running by Abigail Caldwell-Gatsos
Aidan Ziliak	Sestina & I
Alex Simand	Murder My Machismo
Alexis	Fire
Allie Marini	My Body // My Warzone: Fingers
Allison Thorpe	TO THE GUY WHO ATE ALL MY SWEET POTATO CHIPS IN AL’S BAR ONE NIGHT
Alx Johns	The Brain Is Not the Mind
Amanda Holt	Being Alone
Amanda Kelley	Believing
Amy Camuglia	belted kingfisher
Andrew Depew	I want to build
ashley parker owens	ashley parker owens
B.David Perry	To Liz on the Road
Barbara Sabol	Red Bud
Beatrice Underwood-Sweet	Sequoiadendron giganteum
Bernard Deville	Shiva, Her Statue
Bianca Bargo	Things with Me and Spiders 2. Nocturne
Bianca Lynne Spriggs	Patchwork Woman
Bobby Steve Baker	Children of Abraham Debate Glorification
Brittany Castle	the graduate
Bronson O’Quinn	he wants a hangover
brucehill	Scarlet Ribbons
c.l. kirby	the client.
carole johnston	fourteen – a Taoist Parable
Chloe Forsting	To The Suicide Bomber At Karnak
Christopher McCurry	Daughter
Christopher Miller	I Stare
Chuck Clenney	Shi-i-n: The Sound of Nothing
Cleo	Fogged
Colin Boyd	Long Off Wet Bell
Debbie Adams Cooper	i sleep like the #4
Delmar Reffett	On Delegating Tasks
Dennis Preston	last act of kindness
Don Boes	At the Company Picnic
Dorothy Bouzouma	On a Hearing in Charleston
Douglas E. Self	Headlines and a Dream (Zuihitsu)
Duke Gatsos	Bait Shop
Eduardo Ballestero	What I Think When You Are the Shoulder I Lean On
Elizabeth Beck	A Woman’s Shepherd
Elizabeth Burton	The Changeling Reflects on a Tylenol Ad
Elizabeth Sands Wise	This morning, I laugh
EllePiggy	Joan of Arc
Erin Chandler	The Coyote
Erin Mathews	Dead Artist’s Daughter
GA Smith	15.6.30
Gaby Bedetti	World Cup Strategy for the United States
George Ella Lyon	Search Engine Limit
Hannah Bishop	Contra.
Hap Houlihan	writing &c
Harriet Windsor	How We Live Love
hb elam	overly concerned
Heather Dent	A New Hair Cut
Holly Wooten	Poet in the Corner
J. L. Taylor	too happy so i,
J. Wise	Why I am Reticent
Jason Lee Miller	Before This
Jason Williams	What I’ll Write About if I Ever Write a Poem About my Wife
Jay McCoy	thirst
Jeffrey Helton	In Motion
Jennifer Barricklow	Go
Jennifer Beckett	Brother
Jennifer Standard	Is it I, Lord?
Jeremy Paden	wreck: a noun
Jessica Swafford	Iridescent, Ancient, and Crumbling
Jim Lally	Are You Going to Heaven?
Jiv Johnson	OBSCENITIES #2, #3, #4
Joan Burke	Little A
Jonathon La Mar	constellation
Jonel Sallee	Thinking of Abraham
Jordan Quinn	Yesterday
Joseph Allen Nichols	Luciferous
Joseph Camuglia	Elevator Conversation
Joshua Moore	Cricket
Jude Lally	The Great Grey
Jude McPherson	after
Julian DeVille	Entropy
JW Mullins	Narcissistic Minimalist
K. Nicole Wilson	After Pride
Karen George	Five Directions to My House
Kari Burchfield	Too long away
Karlee Caswell	The Good of the Grape
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer	Praise Song for the Lag
Katrin Flores	Call It Destiny
Keith Stewart	Craig’s List: Missed Connection
Kendrick VanZant	scorching
Kristy Robinson Horine	Sycamore
LaTosha Pence	Sleep the Pain Away
Laurel Dixon	Moonshine Tasting
Leigh Anne Hornfeldt	Georgia Aquarium Beluga Whale Calf Dies
Lennart Lundh	You = Time Machine
Linda Caldwell	my companion 1994 – 2008
Liz Prather	Once, When I was Your Mother
Lucia Cherciu	Painted Nails Prove
Luke Wallin	ask and ye shall
Lynnell Edwards	Day 25
M J Eaton	Hyperlexia
Madison Miller	Someone asks if I’m an atheist
Maggie Brewer	Hard Year
Mary Dusing	Small Stone #28
Mary L Allen	Found Paradox
Matthew Haughton	Souvenir
Maya Pemble	Fortune Teller
MC DK	Bad Sex
meadowdawn	hat trick diadem
Melva Sue Priddy	Dad Tells Us We Are Raising Only Five Acres This Year, An Acre Here, an Acre There
Michayla Gatsos	May Allure
Michelle Knickerbocker	We Sleep on Paper
Misty Skaggs	Lawless
Nettie Farris	I Saw the Frank in Hank and Then I Set Him Free
Nora Burton	Facing it
Pat Owen	Inside a Fragile Body
Patrick Maloney	Father I want to be
Pauletta Hansel	My Mother Writes About My Father�s Death
Poetessa Leixyl Kaye Emmerson	In the Dip Beyond the Upland
Rae Cobbs	Gabe: A Request of Your Presence
Rain E. Palmer	Brad Pitt Stands in a Storm
Randall Walden	Filler.
Robert Campbell	Questionnaire
Robert S. King	The Invisible Man at the Grocer
Rona Roberts	First Lightning Bug Sighting, 2015
Rudy Thomas	Morning Walk
Sarah Freligh	“Of Course There’s An Afterlife”
Savannah Sipple	My Thighs–
Sean L Corbin	Where the wall meets the floor
Serena Devi	the maternity ward
Sherry Chandler	Madrigal
Sofiah Sexton	Salvation
Stevie Farmer	Soft
Sue Churchill	Seven Circles
Sue Neufarth Howard	All Night Long
T.D. Worthington	Wet Feet
Tara Cremeans-Mounger	Life in a Tea Cup
Terre Brothers Johnson	make my mark
Tina Parker	It All Adds Up
Unwit	On the hill above the river, big sycamores bend
Valerie L. Wells	True Love
Victoria Sullivan	Alix Dreams of an End, but not The End
Vijay Singh	OUR TIME
Whitney Baker	Just Before
Zlatna Kostova	…