It’s odd. I’ve been working on my intellectual credentials for years now, but have only honed the words meant for science and math. This half-marathon serves as a chance to use the words I left along the way. The words that I foolishly discarded in…

Woohoo!  Just days until the adventure begins.  No distractions, no laundry-errands-shopping-leaving the house, and no naps!  Such a delicious idea to empty my head for one entire day and focus on writing poetry.  Caffeine, yes.  And, I have hidden a bag of decadent dark chocolates,…

Hi all. Decided I should make a quick test to make sure WordPress isn’t going to be weird. Looking forward to the weekend!

Is there anything better than a group of artists uniting in their art, nurturing and supporting each other and their lovely words of poetic beauty? The 2021 Poetry Marathon brings new hope and creativity. This is my 6th (maybe?) Marathon. Last year’s Marathon saved me…

I am a Shawnee Gypsy Jew social justice humanist who sees tattoos as physical manifestations of emotional scars and lost count of mine somewhere around 20. “This world makes no sense to me, so I make music and poetry.” Check out my new book: For…

As I write this, half my eye is on the virtual court and the other half is on the prompts and welcoming posts from the team. Out here, work is on full swing, albeit virtually. Its another busy week and I have crazy butterflies in…

Hi everyone! I am a high school English teacher in Colorado. I teach 10th and 11th grade and also creative writing and I am the literary magazine coach. This is my first half marathon. I am really excited, but also a little worried because everything…

With all this light, it’s hard to sleep. Poems come into my mind at night. Rhymes: light, write, sight, height, fight…. Fright..12 new poems. I did it last year and had a lot of fun. I was thrilled to have one of my poems chosen…

Hi fellow marathoners, I am Nehal from India. I have been reading and writing poetry from when I was a child, quite literally. I wrote my first piece of poetry in Hindi when I was seven years old. Though I haven’t quite had the courage…

Hello Everyone, My name’s Ana Marie and this is my 2nd venture into the Half Marathon. I go by AMANA in the Poetry Marathon. I can say that I’m thrilled to be writing with you all again, and counting the days until D-day. I know…