Category Archives: Poetry Readings

20 Years in the USA: Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s Anniversary Reading and Celebration

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Katerina passportAccents founder and Senior Editor Katerina Stoykova-Klemer will be hosting a reading and celebration tonight at the Lexington Public Library’s Farish Theater!

September 22nd is the 20th anniversary of the day I stepped on American land. A lot has changed since then – countries, homes, people, cities.

I would love for you to join me on that day at 6:30 pm at The Farish Theater to let me read you a few poems about immigration, immigrating, making a space yours, making your self into your home.

Bring your handkerchiefs, but also your smiling faces, for this will be a celebration!

This will be an opportunity for me to thank you in person for making me feel welcome and loved in your wonderful country.

Love and light to you, good people of Kentucky!

Yours,
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

We would love to have you there, and if you’re able to come, feel free to RSVP on the Facebook Event page.

Holler Poet Series 81: Erin Keane, T.A. Noonan, & Todd Clayton

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Erin Keane

Erin Keane recently released Demolition of the Promised Land, a collection of poetry that has Bruce Springsteen as “guide, ghost, and accidental guru” (source). She has also published Death-Defying Acts and The Gravity Soundtrack. She is also a pop culture writer with published articles all over the place.

T.A. Noonan

T.A. Noonan‘s four sparks fall tells the story of May Florence, a a budding poet about to join an elite Louisianan boarding school while her twin sister won’t. Noonan is also the Art Director for the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Associate Editor of Sundress Publications, and Founding Editor of Flaming Giblet Press.

Todd Clayton performs a “gospel brand of roots music” (source) and has nominated three times for the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards.

When: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 @ 8pm
Where: Al’s Bar
601 N. Limestone
Lexington, KY 40508
(859) 309-2901

Caden Blincoe Outloud Festival

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Caden Blincoe Outloud FestivalAs part of their Creative Writing Vision Program, Thomas More College is hosting their 23rd Annual Caden Blincoe Outloud Festival on Sunday, February 15th from 2-4pm.

According to their press release, the Festival will have:

Readings and book signings by Writer in Residence Pauletta Hansel, TMC alumna Karen George, local author-musician Roberta Schultz and awarded regional authors Richard Hague and Ron Houchin.  Music by Sunset Dawn, with TMC professor Sherry Cook Stanforth. All are welcome to attend this annual celebration of writers and writing. Wine and appetizer reception begins at 1:45 pm.

Thomas More College is also hosting a seven-week seminar designed “to help deepen engagement in all aspects of the poetic process”.

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Jane Gentry: Poetry of Place

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The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning will be hosting a reading to honor Jane Gentry, a former poet laureate of Kentucky. Hosted by Kasia Pater, the event will feature 19 Kentucky writers to read Jane’s work, some of which include Bobbie Ann Mason, George Ella Lyon, Mary Ann Taylor Hall, and Leatha Kendrick. In an interview with the Herald-Leader, Sue Churchill (one of the event’s organizers) said, “We don’t want this to have a funeral atmosphere. This is a celebration of the blessing that Jane brought to all of us and to this area of the country.” (source)

You can find more information:

The above audio clip is a snippet of an interview Jane had with Katerina on Accents Radio. The full interview can be found by clicking here.

When: Monday, February 9, 2015 @ 6pm
Where: The Carnegie Center
251 W. Second St.
Lexington, KY 40507

Teen Howl #39 featuring Jiv Johnson

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Tonight’s Teen Howl Poetry Series will feature the work of Jiv Johnson.

Teen Howl was created by Elizabeth Beck and Jay McCoy to give younger voices a stage and an audience. All are welcome, although the open mic is designed for the under-21 crowd.

When: Thursday, February 5, 2015 @ 6pm
(open mic sign-ups begin at 5:45pm)
Where: the Morris book shop
882 E. High St.
Lexington, KY 40502

Free Poetry Events Week of October 20th

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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.

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Teen Howl #35 featuring Aidan Ziliak

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10631280_10152728379678493_4195328665903015469_oTonight’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

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Stars with Accents: Leatha Kendrick, Paulette Livers, & Lisa Williams

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The final event of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference will be this Sunday at 7PM at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. Katerina Stoykova-Klemer will host and ask questions.

photo by John Lynner Peterson

Leatha Kendrick writes essays and poems for anthologies such as What Comes Down to Us: Twenty-Five Contemporary Kentucky Poets, The Kentucky Anthology, and Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. Kendrick’s latest volume of poetry, Almanac of the Invisible, is coming this year from Larkspur Press. (photo by John Lynner Peterson)

IMG_0399Paulette Livers wrote the novel Cementville and earned, along with Joyce Carol Oates and Isabel Allende, the Elle Magazine Lettres Prize 2014. She has earned several awards and had work in such publications as Southwest Review, The Dos Passos Review, and Spring Gun Press.  (photo by Sheli Hadari)

 

Lisa Williams won the Barnard Women Poets Prize with Woman Reading to the Sea (W.W. Norton 2008). Her newest poetry collection, Gazelle in the House, came from New Issues Poetry & Prose earlier this year. She was also recently interviewed on Accents Radio by Katerina.

 

Holler 75 featuring Ada Limon, Tony Brewer, & R.E.A.L. the Poet

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Tonight Al’s Bar will feature poets Ada Limon (Sharks in the Rivers and This Big Fake World), Tony Brewer (Hot Type Cold Read), and R.E.A.L. the Poet (co-founder of Urban Creek Records) at 8pm.

As always, the event will be hosted by Eric Scott Sutherland (pendulum), and the signup for open mic starts at 6:45. Don’t forget to donate to the “holler bucket”!