In this time of COVID, please warmly embrace my brief introduction.

Not only am I grateful and honored that is the fourth Poetry Marathon of which I have been an active participant, I am a daughter, wife, mother and grandmother.

Two years ago, I retired from my career in education and am currently working as a cashier in a local grocery store.

Relying on the hourly prompts enable me to stretch as a poet. I look forward to learning and accepting the challenge given.

Ordinarily, I have a tendency to isolate when writing, but not during the Marathon.

During the Marathon, the community of poets keep me going through the small hours of the night.

Unbelievably talented poets come together, sharing in phenomenal poetry. It’s amazing and beautiful. There is nothing like this experience. Every year has been different and fantastic.

Certainly, the 2020 Poetry Marathon is already embedded with the uniqueness that can only come from this year.

Taking in the Marathon through each hour as it comes, keeps me focused on the prompts.

I look forward to reading as many poems as I can and commenting on each that I read.

Obviously, you will experience the Marathon for yourself, but you will not go it alone.

No one can take this away from you. You earn it through every poem.