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

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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. Continue reading →

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.