Robin LaMer Rahija and Greg Lamer, of Rabbit Catastrophe, at the Night Market
This week is extra special for Accents Publishing; not only will Katerina read along with current and former poet laureates at the Carnegie Center, but our amazing intern, Robin LaMer Rahija, will make her Holler debut Wednesday night!
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This week is busy as we have a reading this Saturday at Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville with our amazing poets Eric Scott Sutherland, Tom C. Hunley, and Lynnell Edwards.
This Thursday the Carnegie Center will host an International Eating and Reading Night where everyone is invited to share food and literature from their home country.
Plus, West Virginia poet and award-winning children’s author Marc Harshman will be touring the area, and Thomas More College is hosting an event this afternoon with Pauletta Hansel.
More details below.
photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Amanda Johnston sits in to talk with Katerina and read some of her own poetry. She’ll also be reading this evening at The Wild Fig with fellow Affrilachian Poets Jeremy Paden and Bianca Spriggs.
Don’t forget to tune in at 2pm on WRFL 88.1FM on the radio, or you can stream it live on the web.
For the reading at The Wild Fig:
| When: | Friday, October 17, 2014 @ 6:30pm |
| Where: | The Wild Fig |
| 1439 Leestown Road | |
| Lexington, KY 40511 | |
| (859) 381-8133 |
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The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky is hosting it’s Kentucky Great Writers Series. One of the featured readers, Lisa Williams, is a recurring guest on Accents Radio, and was featured on August 29th’s Accents Radio show, as well as read as one of the features at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference’s Stars with Accents reading.
Williams will be reading from her Barnard Women Poets Prize winning poetry collection Gazelle in the House (New Issues Poetry & Prose 2014).
The event will also host Courtney C. Stevens and her debut novel, faking normal, as well as Don Lichtenfelt and his memoir from Wind Publications, Goodbye Lake Huron. And, as an additional treat, the event will be hosted by friend of Accents, Leatha Kendrick.
The open mic will start at 7:00pm, so be sure to find a seat a few minutes early.
| When: | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 @ 7:00pm |
| Where: | The Carnegie Center |
| 251 West Second Street | |
| Lexington, KY 40507 |
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Tonight’s Teen Howl Poetry Series will feature teen poet Aidan Ziliak.
The reading starts at 6pm at the Morris book shop. Open mic sign-ups start at 5:45.
As always, the event will be hosted by founders Elizabeth Beck and Jay McCoy.
| When: | Thursday, October 9, 2014 @ 6pm |
| Where: | the Morris book shop |
| 882 E. High St. | |
| Lexington, KY 40502 |
If you know of any free, public poetry events in Kentucky (or easily accessible local venues), please contact us and we’ll add them to our events calendar.
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The monthly event features the best of Lexington’s young poets (including an open mic), and headlines an under 20-year-old featured poet as well as an accomplished guest in the poetry community. Founded in 2011 by Elizabeth Beck and Jay McCoy, the name is based off of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”, which the group read in pieces during their initial meetings.
This week’s featured guest is Aidan Ziliak.
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Started in 2007 by Colin Watkins and Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Poezia is open to anyone committed to improving their craft.
They meet every Thursday at Common Grounds, and the prose group meets every Tuesday at the same time.
image by John Lackey
Eric Scott Sutherland hosts another night of lyrics and libations with the debut of Lexington poet Iris Law. Kendra DeColo will also read and Marcus Wilkerson (of Tribe Called Lex) will provide a musical interlude.
Open mic signups start at 6:45pm and readers will begin and end the night.
When: 8pm, September 23
Where: Al’s Bar, Lexington, KY
Craft Talk by Inaugural Poet Richard BlancoLeatha Kendrick reading “What I Wanted but Couldn’t Tell…” by Mirela Ivanova.
Poem’s full title:
WHAT I REMEMBERED, BUT COULDN’T TELL MY SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, WHILE WE WERE STUCK FOR 11 MINUTES IN THE ELEVATOR AND SHE TUMBLED, BOUNCED FROM CORNER TO CORNER LIKE A BLAZED AND CRAZED, SPARKLING FIREWORK AND HER TEARS ROLLED GIANT, APOCALYPTIC BEHIND THE LENSES OF HER GLASSES, AND I WAS TRYING TO YELL OVER HER HORROR, TO PET HER SCARLET CHEEKS AND FOREHEAD, TO EMBRACE HER AND GATHER HER BACK INTO MYSELF AND SING TO HER CONSOLINGLY, BECAUSE I ALREADY KNEW THAT CHILDREN RECOGNIZE THE VOICES AND THE PULSES OF THEIR MOTHERS FROM AMONG 3000 NOISES
from The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry
To see more from Leatha Kendrick, don’t forget to check out Stars with Accents this Sunday at 7PM at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning where she’ll be reading with Paulette Livers and Lisa Williams in an event hosted by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.
