Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge 2015

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The sign-ups have officially started for the 2015 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge! Just click here.

For those who don’t know, June is Lexington Poetry Month (or “LexPoMo” as the kids might say). LexPoMo was founded by Hap Houlihan and Katerina Stoykova-Klemer in 2013 as a month-long community-wide celebration of poetry, and June was officially declared “Lexington Poetry Month” by Mayor Jim Gray in 2013.

The LexPoMo Writing Challenge takes place on the Accents Blog and challenges everyone to write a poem every day during the month of June. That’s one new poem every single day! And if you want, you may submit that poem to be published on the Accents Blog. You don’t have to submit every day, but if you submit at least five poems, then one of your poems will be chosen to be printed in an annual anthology. Our first anthology, Her Limestone Bones, came out on April 15th, 2014. We will be having a release party for the newest anthology at The Carnegie Center on May 28.

So if you’d like to sign up for this year’s LexPoMo Writing Challenge, you can click here and fill out the information. If you’d like more information about the writing challenge, check out this page of Frequently Asked Questions. And if you’d like to see who’s already signed up, check out this page!

And if you have any questions—or would like us to mention a LexPoMo event you’ve planned—please don’t hesitate to contact us. You can write to the blog administrator, Bronson, by filling out a form on this page.

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