From Dallas for about 30 years. Moved to Indianapolis and got my degree in English (Creative Writing) at IU. Then I moved back to Dallas, then to MA, then to NH, and now back to IN as both a spiritual journey and a curse of…

Thanks to the Poetry Marathon organizers for allowing me to join at this late date. Poetry is my life, so I’m looking forward to the challenge of the half marathon. The family is in Europe, so it’s just me and the dog here in Colorado,…

Trying to figure all the teck stuff out. And managing. Looking forward to this. Know it will be tough, the 12 hour, but hoping years of writing poems will help! I have had a group of friends who write a poem a day each January…

I love poetry, have written a lot of it over the years, but this is my first poetry marathon.  I am a little nervous about pushing myself to create something new every hour, but it’s also exciting.  I’m looking forward to the challenge, to meeting…

A warmup of sorts. Lobbing the syllables over my cerebellum. Throwing junk, just looking for control. Afraid to throw my heated stuff for fear I would strain a simile or sprain an analogy. It makes it hard to have no catcher, nobody to receive my…

This year my marathonning will be complicated by life, but then again, what creative activity ever isn’t? I’ve become a cliché, a writer who pays the bills with bartending job. That means weekends are most usually all work and no writing. In addition to that,…

Well this is my first experience at this. I write poetry and song lyrics. After 2.7 years of living and working in the UK I moved back to the US.  I really love Europe. I recently started writing again. Look forward to meeting new people and…

Can’t wait for the madness to begin 🙂

Hello marathoners and poetry lovers. The Poetry Marathon feels like the true new year to me. Not just because I’m up the night through, counting down the clock, but because it brings me a fresh sense of hope for my future. I look forward to…