The Poetry Marathon

This is my first time doing this poetry marathon and I am super excited!! I was supposed to do so much this summer but of course, everything was canceled. If they hadn’t been canceled I would have never learned about this awesome chance to show off my skills and do something I’ve never done before: stay up for a full 24 hours. I have tried pulling off all-nighters but have never succeeded so I hope this goes better than my previous attempts! Good luck everyone and remember this is for fun, don’t make it stressful!

So much happens in a year. Since last years marathon, oh yeah I didn’t do that one because I was traveling to celebrate a 30th wedding anniversary of friends. There were 3 couple there who all celebrated 30 years in 2019, myself included. Anyway I’m anxious to be back. This year I’m suffering tendonitis, I will persevere. I am eager to write 12 poems in 12 hours this year. Good luck to all

this year has been a big reboot for everyone, truly grateful to have something similar come back to the world wide web.

can’t wait to challenge the mind and the heart!

A few years ago, I came across The Poetry Marathon on a random post I happened to catch on Facebook. Every year, I’ve looked forward to the next marathon. I appreciate the Jans for bringing this magnificent experience to life. It has helped me, as well as many others, to keep warm those flames of inspiration and creativity alive an well in all of us. Some Poets and their anthologies that followed them, are only a small part of what this marathon has created. Here’s to another 24 hours of creative fire, and the life that will spring forth from it. Good Luck everyone!

Practice

Practice, they say

Reminds the body of

Actions and thoughts

Compatible with the

Task you with to

Improve and master

Consequently practice

Every day

Welcome back to another challenging, brain-bashing, creative journey!  I send wishes for all to just enjoy the sights, smells, tastes, and touches and adventures you will impart on the readers, and just let it flow!  I am excited to be here.

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 in the later hours…or early hours. I was playing catch up through the whole marathon and it took my mind off of what time it was.

So excited to do this craziness again with my Poetry Marathon Family!

Best of Luck to All!

Well, last time I only made it through twelve hours of the 24. Let’s give it one more try! Looking forward to another attempt!

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; explore the genre in a demonstrable way again.

I have no doubt I will write some less-than-great pieces over the course of the twelve hours, but I hope to discover a couple of gems in myself, too. I will attempt to remind myself it’s more about the work and less about the outcome, although that may be a difficult mantra come hour six. 🙂

Nevertheless, I am excited and am brimming with ideas. See all of you very soon!

Sasha

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 contributing to that donation ourselves we are able to offer $550 dollars for someone to edit the anthology.

The Poetry Marathon Anthology is some writer’s first publication, and others’ hundredth, but it is always a clear representation of the range of people who participate in the event.

We have found an editor to work on the anthology this year. A huge thank you to everyone who applied.

You can see what last years looked like here.