Save the date! The 2023 Poetry Marathon will start on September 2cd at 9AM ET and go to September 3rd 9AM. The half marathon will end on September 2cd at 9PM.

We are so sorry for the delay! The 2022 Poetry Marathon Anthology is now available for sale from a variety of retailers throughout the world. We expect it to slowly become available from more retailers, moving forward. This year’s anthology includes 239 poets from many…

Submissions to the 2022 Poetry Marathon Anthology are open now and will stay open through Friday, the 22nd of July! For the first time the anthology will have two different editors. Make sure you submit to the right editor. Ofuma Agali, is this year’s full…

Submissions to the 2022 Half Poetry Marathon Anthology are open now and will stay open through the 22nd of July! For the first time the anthology will have two different editors. Make sure you submit to the right editor. This year’s Half Marathon Editor Cristy…

Write a poem using  one of the following titles: The Watchtower Second Breakfast Books for Beginners The Woman with the Top Hat Echo Husband   Haiku The second breakfast gives life, lifts spirit of health, take it every day.

Congratulations Half Marathoners! I am so happy that you have completed 12 poems in 12 hours! That is wonderful. Thank you for joining us in this madness. In the past I have personally verified that everyone who applied for a certificate was eligible and then…

You did it! Congratulations! I am very impressed! You wrote 24 poems in 24 hours. This is an achievement that few poets ever accomplish. Although, if you are a returning marathoner, some of you might be accomplishing it for the second or third time or…

Stardust is what we are made of and we shall return to that I will not be tied to the earth The wind will pick me up Throw me out into the stratosphere and I will slip between the spaces in our magnetic shield to…

Perfect matzo ball soup Is one thing you will find here Musicians who have played together For many years Their homes are long gone Lost two hundred years ago Kept safe in the walls Of the restaurant they run Many don’t stray far Or you…

I am gentle with most I am firm with those who need it To myself, I am savage Every mistake is a marr, a sin Sometimes I wish I could show myself half the tenderness That I give to others