Hello all! I am a first-time half-marathoner in Michigan. I am posting to make sure I know how to do this when things get started tomorrow morning. Looking forward to it! Can anyone tell me how/where to set my posts so that only fellow marathoners…

This will be my 4th or 5th marathon and I am pumped. Over the years I have pushed out some really good poems, as well as some really not-so-good poems, but its a matter of accomplishment for me, not about perfection. To all the newcomers,…

Hi! I am Ermelinda (shortened to Linda) from India. This is going to be my first poetry marathon and I am excited to be here. In April, I successfully participated in the Poem-a-Day Challenge. I also worked on a separate thread for NaNoWriMo writing  poems…

“In my little garden pretty” was the first line to the very first poem I ever wrote as a 7-year-old. I love words and making them work for me. Originally from Pennsylvania, I am a coal miner’s daughter. Now residing in Lakewood, Colorado, I happily…

Hello everybody, my name is Double-AA-battery, I am 11 years old. I currently live with my mother, and grandparents, in Chennai, India. I love English, I don’t know why, but I just do. During the the 2020 lockdown I decided to start a blog site…

  Hello, I’m Valarie Kirkwood and I have been writing since I read the poem “Who has seen the Wind,” in second grade, ages ago. My nom de plume is V.J. Kirkwood. My poems have found their way into two college English department journals, the…

Hello! My name is Courtney and this is my third year participating in the Poetry Marathon. I’m super super excited and can’t wait to read all of your poetry. In past years, I didn’t feel confident enough to submit anything to the anthology, but I…

Hi! First time participating. Excited to get those creative juices flowing. Stay at home mom of six so creativity isn’t even on the stove, forget the back burner!

Greetings fellow writers! 🙂 I hope you all are safe and sound. This is my first time participating in such marathon and I’m glad to be part of of it. I’ll try my best to give justice to words & time. Can’t wait to read…

So it’s that time of the year again… one of the rare times to look forward to and look back to as Life keeps running and running around us. My first marathon was in 2016, it was a tough time then, it’s still a tough…