Hello!
Hello fellow Marathoners! I’m looking forward to today’s marathon. Hope all of you have a good night’s rest!
Hey everyone
I’m so excited to see everyone’s beautiful work and the different styles that other people use. Best of luck to everyone, we got this! 🙂
What is sleep?
Just got home from work. Sleep a little then some poetry. Then work tending bar and tomorrow night well I suppose tonight looking at the time…. That would be tonight we have a band. Hmmm interesting. I will be serving up cocktails and words. Just like I like it. Good luck fellow writers
Hello!!
My Time to Shine!!
I’m preparing….sharpening my tools!!!
Test post/Intro
Hello! My name is Mollie and I’m not a poet. I love writing, which is why I signed up for the half marathon after seeing it advertised on Facebook. I’ve never participated before, but I’m looking forward to giving it a try.
I’m not sure I’ll be able to finish, because I’m moving across the country on Sunday and my day will be filled with last minute errands and goodbyes.
But I’ll do my best and I’ll be sure to comment on other poems when I’m able.
Can’t wait to see what happens!
And….we’re testing
Just making sure I haven’t forgotten how to use this thing. Looking forward to all the great work that will come out of the Poetry Marathon. Happy writing all!
test post
I am very excited about the poetry marathon. I know I am up late but I cannot contain my excitement. I’m a little afraid of doing the 24 hour marathon and I am thinking of how I will stay awake. I bought myself 2 five hour energies, I hope that is enough. I look forward to reading the poems. Happy writing
Hello, fellow marathoners!
Hello, fellow marathoners! I’m a poet, editor, and short story writer fortunate to live in the stunning juxtaposition of desert, river, and mountains that is the west side of El Paso, Texas, with my sprawling family, golden retriever Ginger, aka The Love Sponge, and our Celtic kitty, Seamus. While pursuing degrees in English literature and Anthropology at Indiana University as an adult returning student, I discovered the intense joy and therapeutic healing of poetry and essay writing. I had the great good fortune to marry the love of my life in 2012, and as a poet am simultaneously both nerdishly proud and daunted by the fact that my husband is a distant relative of Sylvia Plath. My participation in the 2015 Poetry Marathon reaped the many layered benefits of intense writing time spent with my daughter, poet Sara Anderson, the deep and sustaining friendships begun on that fateful day such as that with my dear friend, Alicia Sophia Martin and the other awesome members of the writing group, Some Poets, the publication of my first chapbook, Thicker Than Water: Poems From a Life Uncharted, and writing poems for, co-editing and producing three books for Some Poets, 19,751 words. an anthology. by Some Poets., Wicked Words. a chapbook. by Some Poets., and Love. Letters. a chapbook. by Some Poets. We are in the process of creating a multicultural book of translation poems that touch on the family background and language of each participating poet, a book that came about directly from the global roots of our members because of last year’s marathon, and I’m personally writing my own memoir titled Blood Is with poem/photo chapter introductions. I’ve been looking forward to this year’s marathon since about a minute after 2015’s marathon ended, and can’t wait to see what we all create!
test poem
getting up early …that’s the first task
to have some fun …that’s all I ask