After editing the half-marathon last year, I am back again this year as an eager participant! I have been busy since the 2022 Poetry Marathon with all things, poetic… I offered a ‘Playing with Poetry’ workshop online via Zoom and will now be presenting it in person at ‘Write on Bowen’, in beautiful British Columbia, in mid-September. My poem, ‘The Orange Door’, took second place in the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize and will be forthcoming with the other winners of the contest in an anthology called, ‘Fire From the Heart’, this Fall. I also recently learned that a poem from another contest I entered, ‘The Ekphrastic Challenge’, is published online: ‘sleepy hollow’, after the painting, Hills and Rivers, Steamboat at Sleepy Hollow, by John Kane (USA) 1929. I am looking forward to meeting and writing with other poets this coming weekend and wish everyone luck as they begin this creative endeavour!