The Poetry Marathon

Introduction

Looking forward to this marathon! I’ve been writing since I was six and became interested in poetry around age fourteen. I’m extremely passionate about writing and art but can get demotivated when I don’t have deadlines. Doing the 9am to 9pm half marathon (never been an all-nighter kind of gal) and expecting to be exhausted and brain-dead, but feeling really good about the potential I’ll have in these drafts.
I write both in form and free verse; depending on how the day goes you will probably see more free verse. Writing from the Pacific time zone…

Good luck, everyone!

-Alena

Intro

I’m Des and will be participating in the half marathon. Been writing poetry since I was 7. Ex-mormon feminist, nonbinary (she or they), have Selective Mutism, crusader against adultism, and…that’s about all I feel like saying right now.

Is it weird that I am more exicted for this year’s marathon than I ever was for my birthday as a kid?

French Press Coffee for Poetry

Greetings Poetry Peeps! Excited to be returning for my fourth year. I’ll be joining the half-marathon at the 12 hour mark from Sacramento, California. Looking forward to meeting all the new and returning poets over the course of the marathon through this platform and on the FB group page. Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler! – Bia

Back again!

This will be my third half-marathon. The first two were both fun and productive. Looking forward to this international group effort dedicated to increasing the sum total of poetry worldwide.

Hello all!

I am trying this, hopefully I do well with it. I am doing the full marathon, or at least going to attempt it. I am a poet and a author. Currently, I have ten volumes of poetry on amazon and three children’s books. I also write horror and other adult themed stories as Serena Mossgraves.

Hello!

I’ll assume, yeah, yeah, I know, but I’ll still assume that I follow the directions correctly. If not, some kind soul may (?) rescue me. So this is my brief statement on the blog. Happy Trails!

Looking 24 hours square in the eye

I’m a lifetime artist living in a tiny town near the wilderness in Arizona. Besides poetry, I create novels, plays, photographs, videos, essays, martial arts, jewelry, sculpture, gardens, pools, songs, trained dogs, satisfied spirits, insanely good apple pie, intimidated dates, empowered students, entertained family, devoted friendships, and a home environment that always needs more cleaning.

The Poetry Marathon interests me because I’ve regularly done 12 to 36 hour driving, studying, traveling, and martial arts. I’ve been writing poetry all my life. This instant I’m finding ways to make the transition from day-job-dominated artist to full-time artist. This marathon marks that beginning by both doing the writing and publishing it immediately. I love a truly challenging task, and I love to find what I learn about myself when I try. Plus new friends and poetry? Bonus.

Introductory Post

Hello Everyone!

I’m excited to participate in this year’s Poetry Marathon. I’m a first timer and am looking to finish a half marathon this time around.

I’m 34, married, and have two young sons. I live in Warrensburg, Missouri USA on a small farm, though I lived in Kansas City until I was 27. I am a high school English teacher and a middle school wrestling coach. I enjoy studying chess, practicing martial arts, and writing poetry. I live my life heavily influenced my samurai ethos. I believe in the mutual cultivation of mind, body, and spirit/heart as a way to develop the complete individual. A scholar, a warrior, an artist. Through these paths all beauty is revealed. I like to live close to the earth, simply, and in service to others.

Poetry was the first form of writing I fell in love with, and is still my choice format. I lean heavy on free verse and believe the best poems come from raw, spontaneous purging. I cannot prepare you for what you may read in my poetry. While I do go back through and edit what I have written, I try to keep what I put on the page as unfiltered as what passes through my mind daily. I’m not promising any literary gems, or even that much talent, just random, poetic, ramblings that are a complicated way of saying very little. The works I create during the marathon may or may not inspire introspection in others. No guarantees. If anything, my poems will serve as a window for others to peer into my very probable insanity. I think like this, and I have a desire to write like this, so I am. I feel the Marathon will suit my style of poetry very well. Looking forward to what surfaces throughout this creative endeavor.

Best wishes to all.

New to this but excited to be here!

Hi everyone:

I am brand new to this and am doing a half-marathon.  I have always loved writing, I wrote short stories when I was younger and kept detailed journals.  I abandoned writing after college, a combination of “real world” distractions and laziness.  But writing was always in the back of my mind.  About five years ago, a friend suggested/challenged me to start writing again, but this time to try poetry.  This was at a point in my life when I was temporarily unemployed and spending my days wandering around NYC.  I had never considered poetry before, always deeming it “not my thing” or too technical.  I started a notebook which I called ‘Maria’s Big Book of Bad Poetry” as a joke to keep my expectations low.  As it turns out, not only did I start to like poetry (and learned that my assumptions of “form” and “technicality” were just that–assumptions), I realized that poems gave me a freedom I didn’t feel with short stories.  But I struggle with finding time to write, and I am hoping the half-marathon will be the challenge I need to get started again.