LexPoMo Writing Challenge 2025

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Written By Danielle Noonan

Thrilled to share that I completed the LexPoMo Writing Challenge for 2025! 30 poems in 30 days!

The #LexPoMo Writing Challenge is an annual event during June where all participants are challenged to write a poem every day and (if they want) post it to the blog. Poems appear on the homepage and other members of the community can comment on your poem. If you post at least five (5) poems during LexPoMo, your poems will be reviewed by a guest editor for inclusion in an annual anthology. The editor picks one poem, using their own criteria and discretion, from each poet. Read more about the challenge at the LexPoMo blog. Anthologies for Lexington Poetry Month are available at Accents Publishing and Workhorse.

You can read my bio for the year, my entries, and my reason for joining at my writer profile. Since I completed the challenge, editors will review my collection of submissions and choose one for the next anthology. It’s exciting to wonder which one they will select! For my dear readers and loved ones, I’ve curated some lists by theme so you can find the type of poem that speaks to you more easily.

Poems about heartbreak and love:

Poems about neurodivergence:

Poems of weariness and sometimes rage:

Poems with humor:

Poems about connection:

Short form:

I did this challenge because I wanted some writing accountability in my life at a time that I wasn’t sure what I wanted to work on next. I also didn’t mind the idea of connecting with other poets. It was great having the opportunity to try different forms in a low-stakes way and the urgency of the daily deadline forced me to get comfortable sharing unedited works that haven’t been workshopped. At the beginning of the challenge, I tried really hard to respond to everyone who left me a lovely comment and go and read their work too, but it became overwhelming and unsustainable to do. To anyone who left comments I didn’t reply to or seemingly stopped replying to, I am so grateful for your words and encouragement. Special shout-outs to Shaun Turner, P.C. Cimex, Pam Campbell, Kevin Nance, Nancy Jentsch, E.E. Packard, and Tabitha Dial who I recognize as repeated supporters throughout the month. Go check out their works as well! I’m especially fond of the works and voice of Shaun Turner. I’m sure there are others that I’ve forgotten, but truly every comment I received was support, thought-provoking, and dear to my heart.

I am blessed to be in a city that champions its writing community, and I look forward to next year. Let me know which poem you hope gets selected for the anthology!

From the publisher:

Hello Poets! 

Thank you so much for another year of poetry and community! 

Our editors, Arwen Careaga and Jon Thrower, will spend the next several months reading the nearly 4,000 poems and selecting one from each poet that completed the challenge. We will then typeset the book, send it out to you to proof, ask Ron Davis to design the cover, and launch it in 2026. … This year we had the privilege of partnering with the James Baker Hall Foundation. They are investing heavily in the kind of work we believe in: building and supporting a diverse and talented community of writers. Their support means so much, so please check them out and get to know the many ways they are impacting the lives of writers across our state. … 3 cheers for Bronson O'Quinn this year! If you had any kind of trouble with logging in or your poems, you likely got help from Bronson. He's incredible, and we are so lucky to have some of his time and energy each June. 

Thanks Everyone, 

Christopher McCurry 

Danielle Noonan
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