Hello! My name is Cali, and this is my first time participating in the poetry marathon! I am usually a long-form fiction writer, but I am looking forward to the challenge! 🙂

Hello fellow poets and marathon people, This is my first challenge. I mainly write longer fiction pieces so I’m looking forward to writing 24 poems. I’m planning my snacks and sharpening my pencils. Not entirely sure where I will have to post the poems? Here,…

Hi Everyone! So excited! So are we all going to be posting here every hour that we write, is that the idea? I’m a poet from Portland, Oregon (although I grew up in Jos, Nigeria! Shout out to all the Nigerians here.) I’m disabled from…

I am Jimoh Abdullah O., a graduate of linguistics and a lover of creativity.  I’m a natural language processing enthusiast and a budding poet whose works have been published on Kalahari Review and Mudroom. I sometimes write article/essay too. He appreciates creativity and innovative ideas.

I’m so excited for this year’s marathon . . . well, let’s be honest, any year’s marathon. I look forward to this from the end of one marathon to the beginning of the next. It gives me such joy to have a solid twenty-four hours…

I did the Half Poetry Marathon two years ago and had a great time! Wrote some “keepers” that made it into my new book. I’m hoping this time to write more poems to complement the new manuscript I’m working on. I’m ready to play and…

Hello, I am a female of the Igbo tribe of Nigeria . I’m a medical student but I really love(d) writing though for some sad reasons I can’t find the motivation to write these days. I saw this platform and hoped it would rejuvenate that…

I find myself getting both excited and nervous for the half marathon. It just hit me as an activity that is designed for me as I like deadlines! But I am nervous about writing crap, which I never want to do intentionally, but nevertheless comes…

So looking forward to the challenge. And eager to read other’s poems.

Starting to get in poetry head a part of me that to snow is a sled and different than wonky things rattling ’round in my head.