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2023 LexPoMo

LexPoMo is wrapped for 2023 and I am proud that I managed to post 17 poems thanks to the focus on poetry writing with my students and the Morehead Writing Project’s Small Poems, Great Writers work which allowed me to come into the challenge with some poems in my pocket. I am particularly pleased with the number of poems that I wrote during the month of June itself – especially considering how busy life and MoreheadWP kept me during the month. Many of those poems were inspired by the National Writing Project’s Write Across America. Thank you writing marathons! Some of those fresh poems are amongst my favorites.

In addition to posting 17 of 30 days, there were several days when I found the time to take a deep dive into the LexPoMo waterfall of poetry and locate five poems that caught my interest and/or pulled at my heartstrings. While the challenge to post poems brought me to LexPoMo, it is the conversation around the poetry that brings me back year after year. Here are some of the stops I took along the way:

I was also pleased to take this journey with several members of the Morehead Writing Project (extended) community:

These links are to their first poems but I hope to go back through to highlight my favorite of their poems when time allows!

My 2023 LexPoMo Journey

June 01, 2023Spring
June 02, 2023How do you pet a rhino
June 03, 2023Takeaway
June 05, 2023Homemade Applesauce
June 07, 2023Deanna 88
June 09, 2023Identity
June 10, 2023Bulletproof
June 12, 2023Current Status
June 14, 2023All Rights, No Responsibilities
June 19, 2023Mint
June 22, 2023Life
June 24, 2023The Motherhood Ritual (a petition to the gods)
June 25, 2023Sudoku Poetry
June 26, 2023Wo-man in Three Acts
June 27, 2023Motherhood Redux
June 28, 2023Writing Kin
June 29, 2023Home Secrets

LexPoMo brings me so much writing joy!

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