2015—Lexington Poetry Month

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Every June is Lexington Poetry Month, and the Accents Publishing Blog hosts the Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge, which challenges everyone who signs up to write a poem every day and post as many (or few) of them to the blog as they’d like.

This year was our best ever LexPoMo Writing Challeng, and below are a few stats from the event:

  • 175 people signed up for this year’s Writing Challenge
  • 142 poets wrote at least one poem
  • 1,477 poems were published during the challenge
  • Users from 55 countries visited the blog during June.
  • 2,784 comments were written in support of our poets

You can view all of the poets who entered and read every person’s poem by clicking here, but below is a list of every poem selected for our upcoming anthology of Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge poems.

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 …

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