It was so hard for me to sleep. If the Creator had not created in us the ability to fall asleep, the world would have been filled with sleep junkies: Men and women and girls and boys who are permanently high on the severe dose…

Hi, everyone! I am honored to participate in the poetry marathon. I feel a bit breathless as I imagine what it will feel like to produce one poem each hour for 24 hours. I know it is a challenge and a feat to complete such…

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,…

This is the last day to sign up for the 2020 Poetry Marathon! You can sign up here. We will be sending out the final round of acceptances tomorrow, June 24th. If you do not here from us tomorrow, please send us an email at…

Can’t wait! This will be my 4th full marathon. Last year, I would have to say, was my most successful. I didn’t get too strict with myself about waiting around for new prompts. I had stuff to do and I did it. It really helped…

Hello everyone–glad to make your acquaintance! This will be my first poetry marathon, although I’ve been writing poems since I was a kid. Prose, screenplays, academic papers…well, those have taken over most of my writing these last few years, so I want to stretch myself;…

  We are very happy to announce that the 2020 Poetry Marathon Anthology is going to happen! We had announced earlier that it would not be a part of this year’s events. But after much ongoing discussion and after securing a generous private donation and…

Sign up is still open for the 2019 Poetry Marathon! You can sign up here. Sign up will only be open til 9 PM on the 23rd. We’ve had a lot of people sign up for the poetry marathon this year. Over 300 people and…

I wrote some quarantine poems in April, and baked and hunkered down in May. This is my first attempt at anything resembling a poem this evening before bed. I’m looking forward to June 27. We couldn’t remember his name at first. That one actor always…

Sign up is now open for the 2019 Poetry Marathon! You can sign up here. The 2020 Poetry Marathon starts at 9 AM ET on Saturday June 27th and will go till 9 AM ET on Sunday the 28th of June. Those who are interested…