2014—The Poets

Yesterday we went over the books we published in 2014.
Today, we’ll take a look at the poets behind those books.

Lori A. May writes across the genres, road-trips half the year, and drinks copious amounts of coffee. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, Writer’s Digest, Brevity, Midwestern Gothic, and The Writer. Her editorial roles have included working with Kaylie Jones Books (an imprint of Akashic Books), Creative Nonfiction, and other independent presses. She is also the founding editor of Poets’ Quarterly. Lori is a graduate of the Wilkes University MFA program, where she was awarded the Norris Church Mailer Fellowship. She teaches in the University of King’s College creative nonfiction MFA program and is a frequent guest speaker at writing conferences and residencies across North America. Visit her website at www.LoriAMay.com.

Eric Scott Sutherland is a hawk watcher, Kentucky creek walker, tree loving Lorax, community and event organizer, the author of two chapbooks and the full-length collection incommunicado (2007). pendulum is his fourth book of poems. He is the creator and host of Holler Poets Series, a monthly celebration of literature and music since 2008. Eric makes his nest in Lexington. Follow Eric and Holler at www.ericscottsutherland.com.

Lynnell Edwards is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop (or, What Breaks)(Accents Publishing). Her short fiction and book reviews have also appeared widely in such literary journals as Pleiades, American Book Review, New Madrid, and The Connecticut Review. She is Associate Professor of English at Spalding University, and prior to that, a faculty member at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. Lynnell is a graduate of Centre College, the center of the glass-blowing universe in Kentucky.

Emily Grosholz grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and has taught philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University for thirty-five years, with sojourns in France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Costa Rica, Russia, Greece, Spain and Italy. She and her husband Robert R. Edwards (medievalist, rugbyman, and soccer coach) raised four children in State College, Pennsylvania, surrounded by small farms and green hills on one side and the town and university on the other. She is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review, and this is her seventh book of poetry.

Born in Russia, A. Molotkov moved to the US in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. Published or accepted by The Kenyon Review, Mad Hatters Review, 2River, Perihelion, Word Riot, Identity Theory, Pif, and many more, Molotkov is winner of New Millennium Writings and Koeppel fiction contests, and a poetry chapbook contest for his True Stories from the Future. He co-editsThe Inflectionist Review and serves on the Board of Directors of Oregon Poetry Association. Molotkov’s new translation of a Chekhov story was included by Knopf in their Everyman Series.

Brandel France de Bravo is the author of Provenance, which won the 2008Washington Writers’ Publishing House prize in poetry and was a ForeWord Book of the Year finalist. Her poems, which have been nominated for thePushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and essays have appeared in various journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Fairy Tale Review,Gulf Coast, and Seneca Review. She is co-author of Trees Make the Best Mobiles: Simple Ways to Raise your Child in a Complex World and the editor of Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College with a master’s in public health, she works for a consumer health organization in Washington, D.C.

And of course, all of the poets in The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry.
(Click on the name to read their interview with Katerina or see their poetry)

Ekaterina Yosifova

Ekaterina Yosifova
Stoyanka Grudova
Kerana Angelova
Elka Vasileva
Roza Boyanova
Sasho Serafimov
Vanya Angelova
Ani Ilkov
Vladimir Levchev
Petar Tchouhov

Valentin Dishev

Valentin Dishev
Mirela Ivanova
Aksinia Mihaylova
Kristin Dimitrova
Bina Kals
Georgi Gospodinov
Nikolay Boykov
Yordan Efftimov
Marin Bodakov
Daniela Mihaleva
Petja Heinrich
Vladislav Hristov
Ivo Rafailov
Yordanka Beleva

Yasen Vasilev

Olya Stoyanova
Ivan Hristov
Krasimir Vardyev
Emanuil Vidinski
Dimiter Kenarov
Ivanka Mogilska
Yasen Vasilev
Rossen Karamfilov

And don’t think for a second that we didn’t think of all the brilliant voices who joined us this past year for Lexington Poetry Month, as well as those we published in our collection of last year’s Lexington Poetry Month poems, Her Limestone Bones.

List of contributors for Her Limestone Bones:

Morgan Adams
Mary Allen
Corey Angel
Allie Marini Batts
Elizabeth Beck
Jennifer Beckett
Michelle Benningfield
Michael Dean Benton
Kevin Blankenship
Maggie Brewer
Kari Burchfield
Sherry Chandler
Rae Cobbs
Whitney Collins
Deborah Cooper
Alison Courtney
Bront Davis
Bernie DeVille
Julian DeVille
Joanie DiMartino
Marta Dorton
Teneice Durrant
MJ Eaton
Nettie Farris
Morghan Fuller
Duke Gatsos
Karen George
Jaria Gordon
Pauletta Hansel
Matthew Haughton
Pamela Gibbs Hirschler
Leigh Anne Hornfeldt
Hap Houlihan
Sue Neufarth Howard
Zachary Johnson
Carole Johnston
Doug Jones

Leatha Kendrick
Elizabeth Kilcoyne
Michelle Knickerbocker
Jude Lally
George Ella Lyon
Patrick Maloney
Jay McCoy
Christopher McCurry
Christopher Miller
Jason Lee Miller
Elane Moore-Turenne
E. K. Mortenson
Kristine Nowak
Bronson O’Quinn
Betsy Packard
Jeremy Dae Paden
Melva Sue Priddy
Robin LaMer Rahija
Jay St. Orts
Doug Self
Clay Shields
Vijay Singh
Savannah Sipple
G.A. Smith
Kate Spencer
Bianca Spriggs
Keith Stewart
Karah Stokes
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Jessica Swafford
Rudy Thomas
Beatrice Underwood-Sweet
Davina Warner
Jason McKinley Williams
K. Nicole Wilson
Elle Wong
Marianne Worthington
Tyler Worthington