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The Gauntlet Poetry Reading

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Workhorse Writers CollectiveThis 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

Jeremy Paden & Thomas Zemsky Reading, Open Mic

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Ruina Montium by Jeremy Paden (Broadstone Books, 2016)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.

After the Storm by Thomas Zemsky (Broadstone Books, 2016)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.

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When: Thursday, October 20, 2016 @ 6pm
Where: Carnegie Center
251 W. Second St.
Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 254-4175

Upcoming Poetry Events

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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.

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Bianca Spriggs Book Release Party

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The Galaxy is a Dance Floor by Bianca Spriggs (Argos Books, 2016)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

Poetry at the KY Women Writers Conference

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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:

The Wild Women of Poetry Slam

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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Sonia Series featuring Ursula Rucker

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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Stars of the Commonwealth

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.

Writer’s Block Prize in Poetry: Deadline a Week Away

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Louisville Literary Arts logoThis year’s Writer’s Block Festival Prize of $500 will be awarded in poetry and the deadline is September 15th, one week from today. Please click here for more information.

Aside from the cash prize, The winner of the contest will be featured in The Louisville Review, the literary magazine of Spalding University’s MFA in Writing.

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Holler Poets Series 99: The Affrilachian Poets 25th Anniversary

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This Wednesday, August 31, the Holler poets will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Affrilachian Poets with a selection of poets curated by Frank X Walker and the musical stylings of DeBraun Thomas.

When: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 @ 8pm
Where: Al’s Bar
601 N Limestone
Lexington, KY 40508
(859) 309-2901

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Pat Owen & Audrey Rooney at the Wild Fig

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sky bridgePat Owen and Audrey Rooney will both read from their debut books at the Wild Fig on Saturday, August 20, 2016.

Pat Owen’s Crossing the Sky Bridge (Larkspur Press) is a poetry collection about love, loss, family, and the natural world. Owen started writing as a way to deal with the illness and eventual death of her partner of 30 years, Ellen Bourke Ewing. The book was recently recommended in the Courier-Journal by Jayne Moore Waldrop.

 

 

Fountains for Orpheus by Audrey RooneyAudrey Rooney’s Fountains for Orpheus is Accents Publishing’s newest poetry collection. Covering such topics as love, loss, and the natural world, Audrey’s shares some similarities to Pat Owen’s. However, Orpheus also contains several translations of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus along with responses by the author.

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When: Thursday, August 20, 2016 @ 2:30pm
Where: Wild Fig Books + Coffee
726 N Limestone
Lexington, KY 40508
(859) 252-3052

World Premiere for Fountains for Orpheus by Audrey Rooney

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Fountains for Orpheus by Audrey RooneyWe invite you to attend the world premiere of Audrey Rooney‘s Fountains for Orpheus at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky.

In Fountains of Orpheus, Audrey Rooney explores timeless concepts from love and loss to aging and nature. This book contains poems of diverse shapes, forms and sizes, as well as several translations of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, matched with Audrey’s poignant responses to Rilke’s work.

Audrey will read from and copies of Fountains for Orpheus will be available from Accents Publishing.

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When: Thursday, August 18, 2016 @ 5pm
Where: Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
251 W. Second St.
Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 254-4175