Black Bone is an exhibit at Transylvania University’s Morlan Art Gallery that will run from January 13th through February 14th. This Thursday, January 19th, will be a public reading and book release party with several Affrilachian Poets, including Accents published authors Jeremy Paden and Bianca Spriggs. Continue reading
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Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha Tretheway has been named Distinguished Writer in Residence for Spalding’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing. She will speak on Tuesday, November 15 at 5:30pm.
Tretheway won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2007 for her collection Native Guard (Mariner Books, 2007). She will give a presentation that is free to the public, but pre-registration is required.
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| When: | Tuesday, November 15, 2016 @ 5:30-6:30pm |
| Where: | Louisville Free Public Library Main Branch |
| 301 York St. | |
| Louisville, KY 40203 | |
| (502) 574-1644 |
On Sunday, the Spalding MFA in Writing will hold a reading by established poets from around the state, including Accents-published poets Jeremy Paden (Broken Tulips, 2013) and Frederick Smock (The Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues, 2011). The event is part of a weekend-long celebration that includes a faculty reading on Saturday and an open house Sunday morning.
Readings will include:
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| When: | Sunday, November 13, 2016 @ 5:30-6:45pm |
| Where: | Spalding University Egan Leadership Center |
| 901 S 4th St | |
| Louisville, KY 40507 | |
| (502) 873-4400 |
Tonight’s Teen Howl will celebrate the series’ fifth anniversary, and will take place at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky instead of the Morris Book Shop. The featured poet is Amelia Martens, author of The Spoons in the Grass are There To Dig a Moat (Sarabande Books, 2016).
Open mic will start at 6pm, so show up a few minutes early to sign up!
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| When: | Thursday, November 3, 2016 @ 6pm |
| Where: | Carnegie Center |
| 251 W. Second St. | |
| Lexington, KY 40507 | |
| (859) 254-4175 |
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 Thursday, November 3rd, at Wild Fig Coffee & Books in Lexington, Kentucky is The Gauntlet Poetry Reading, which will include Bianca Bargo, Sue Churchill, Jaria Gordon, Kristen Miller, and Robin Rahija.
The Gauntlet is a year-long intensive in which nine writers of prose and poetry collaborate in order to complete a “substantial amount of new work and read one contemporary book in their chosen genre and one essay on craft.” (source)
Workhorse Writers Collective is dedicated to promoting “the social art of writing.” (source) The organization was founded in 2016 by former Accents intern Robin Rahija and current Accents Editor Christopher McCurry.
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| When: | Thursday, November 3, 2016 @ 6-7pm |
| Where: | Wild Fig Coffee & Books |
| 726 N Limestone | |
| Lexington, KY 40508 | |
| (859) 252-3052 |
On Thursday, October 20th at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky, Jeremy Paden and Thomas Zemsky will be reading from their newest poetry collections from Broadstone Books. The event will begin with an open mic at 6pm.
Jeremy Paden (author of Broken Tulips) is an Associate Spanish Professor and Program Director for the Foreign Languages department at Transylvania University as well as an Affrilachian Poet. His newest collection, ruina montium (Broadstone Books, 2016), delves into the 33 miners trapped in a copper mine in Chile in 2010.
Thomas Zemsky has an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop and spent a long time working with the International Book Project. After the Storm (Broadstone Books, 2016) draws on Zemsky’s fifty years of writing poetry. According to the book’s description, Zemsky talks about:
themes as diverse as a presidential inauguration and a letter from Frankenstein’s creature, with a horse on a ladder and a cast of other memorably improbable characters along the way, all served up in language that is delightfully quirky and often subversively wry.
(source)
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| When: | Thursday, October 20, 2016 @ 6pm |
| Where: | Carnegie Center |
| 251 W. Second St. | |
| Lexington, KY 40507 | |
| (859) 254-4175 |
Over the next couple weeks, Kentucky offers opportunities to eat world cuisine while enjoying a reading, listen to the Affrilachian Poets while sipping on beer, and share an open mic with two esteemed poets.
These event listings came from the Kentucky Literary Calendar. Continue reading
Bianca Spriggs is hosting a release party at 21C Hotel Museum for her newest book, The Galaxy is a Dance Floor (Argos Books). The event will include music by The DeBraun Thomas Trio, the premiere of a short film called “Live From the Mothership”, a dance performance by Movement Continuum, and poetry readings.
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Bianca Spriggs is the author of How Swallowtails Become Dragons (Accents Publishing, 2011) and is the co-editor of Circe’s Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poetry (Accents Publishing, 2016).
| When: | Thursday, September 22, 2016 @ 6pm-8pm |
| Where: | 21C Hotel Museum |
| 167 W Main St. | |
| Lexington, KY 40507 | |
| (859) 899-6800 |
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference will be this weekend, September 15-18. While registration is required for the conference, there are a few free events that are open to the public:
Saturday the 17th, 7-9:30pm @ Mitchell Fine Arts Center, Transylvania University
Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the headliner and celebrity judge, along with a panel including Sara Volpi, Amena Brown, Siaara Freeman, Ashlee Haze, Rheonna Thornton, Rachel Wiley, and Alyesha Wise.
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Thursday the 15th, 6pm @ The Carnegie Center
Spoken word artist Ursula Rucker will be talking with The Key Newsjournal’s Patrice Muhammad.
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Sunday the 18th, 10-11:30am @ The Carnegie Center
Formerly “Stars with Accents”, this year’s reading will include authors Sarah Gorham, Julie Hensley, and Bobbie Ann Mason. There will be a Q&A session afterwards with conference organizer Julie Wrinn.
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For more information about the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, click here. To see the complete itinerary of readings, workshops, and seminars, click here.
Thursday’s Teen Howl will feature a reading from Isaac Batts. The reading will begin at 6pm at the Morris book shop in Lexington, Kentucky.
Open mic sign-ups begin at 5:45pm.
| When: | Thursday, September 8, 2016 @ 6pm |
| Where: | the Morris book shop |
| 882 E. High St. | |
| Lexington, KY 40508 | |
| (859) 276-0494 |