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Dear Jessica—How Do I Write A Poem? Dear Eager and Unsure, The brevity of your question tells me you are already well on your way to writing a poem, because the first rule of writing poetry is this: get to the heart of the matter. Read article

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Learning Poetry Craft Through Podcasts + Recommendations Sometime in my mid-twenties, I listened to a podcast interview with poet Kim Addonizio. Before then, I had little awareness of contemporary poetry. The idea of living poets felt distant. They were an elite class of people far removed from my reality. Read article

Lemon Grove Writers began in 2024 as a community built on joy, sustainability, and self-trust—a place where writing thrives without competition, self-doubt, or imposter syndrome. We focus on mindset, heart, and accountability, helping writers embrace their creative identity with confidence.

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Whether you're just starting out or returning to the page after years away, you're welcome here. Through free co-writing sessions, deep conversations on process, and shared insights on the writing life, we create space for writers to show up, connect, and cultivate a fruitful writing life. 🍋

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About Us

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Jessica Lohafer lives in Washington. Her work has appeared in Ghost Parachute, The Sweet Tree Review, Drunk in the Midnight Choir, Nailed Magazine, and Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her collection of poetry, What’s Left to Be Done, was published by Radical Lunchbox Press in 2009. In 2020, she released the edited anthology, Allow the Light: The Lost Poems of Jack McCarthy. She has served as the Program Director for Poetry in Public Education, bringing writing workshops to schools throughout the Pacific Northwest, and previously hosted the Write Riot Poetry Slam. Jessica received her MFA in poetry from Western Washington University in 2014.

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Caitlin Morris is a writer, editor, and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University. She currently teaches writing and literature at Bellevue College and Highline College. Caitlin’s fiction has been featured in The Copperfield Review's historical fiction anthology, Halfway Down the Stairs, Jersey Devil Press, and Ghost Parachute. She is the cohost of the Hercule Poirot book club podcast, Poirot Pals.

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Megan Nichols is the author of the chapbook Animal Unfit (Belle Point Press, 2023). Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Poetry Daily, Plume, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for Write Bloody’s 2021 Jack McCarthy Book Prize and the 2024 Peseroff Poetry Prize. She serves as Managing Editor at Variant Literature and is the host of What We Aim To Do, a podcast about vocation.
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