I’m a former high school English teacher living and writing in San Diego, California. Lover of animals, nature, big hearts, and rainy days, I spend most of my time engaged with friends and family or in the pursuit of art and entertainment. I’m not ashamed…

Hello! My name is Daria Lebedeva. I am an emerging poet using the format of the rhymed lines to pack in the depth and complexity of the thoughts provoking the thinking process to start up. I am Ph D in philosophy and probably because of…

Hello, I am on this poetry journey with my little sister and best friend. We are pulling glyphs, images constructed from the letters of words, as inspiration. I spent a large chunk of this year transcribing years of poems from my journals to a Google…

Hello everyone! I’m a bit nervous looking at some of your accomplishments, but I know we’re all here for the same reason. We love words. We love poetry. Keeping that in mind, I’m becoming less intimidated and more excited as the day draws closer. So,…

Hello! My name is Emy Deshotel, and I am a published poet, a freelance writer, and an aspiring novelist. I joined the marathon challenge myself and my creative process. I’m super excited to participate in this marathon and look forward to creating some great poetry!

http://www.financialtechnologyafrica.comRarzack Olaegbe is my name. I am a journalist with over two decades of journalism practice. I have been privileged to report different beats including politics, health, society and entertainment, information technology, telecoms and financial technology for magazines and newspapers including Business in ECOWAS magazine,…

. Another year, another half trot around the corral! I look forward to calling my inner muse to come out to play, stretching her sweet lace poetry wings out far and wide. May a word strand stumble forth, worthy of, if nothing else, the sheer…

I am looking forward to my 3rd year with the poetry marathon. It has allowed me the space to focus on my work and create poems I never thought I could produce. I am releasing my first poetry book, ” A Divine Collection of Chaos”…

Needed a reminder to figure out my !@#$^#%$^%$ password, username and how to publish. It’s been a while. 🙂 All set for tomorrow and looking forward to it! Thanks, jc the poet

Last year it was a skeptical approach. I had registered  for the Poetry Half Marathon,  12 poems in 12 hours. I was pretty sure I was going to fail. Being sure of failure took away the sting of a possible incomplete marathon. At the end…