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Accents Radio 05/30/14: Roy Hoffman

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Join us on Accents Radio as Katerina sits down with novelist and journalist Roy Hoffman.

Originally from Mobile, Alabama, Hoffman spent twenty years in New York City where he “wrote articles and reviews for numerous publications, penned speeches for the president of NYU and the governor and first lady of New York, and taught workshops at NYU’s School of Professional Studies” (source). He currently lives in Fairhope, Alabama.

His novels are Chicken Dreaming Corn (University of Georgia Press, 2004) and Almost Family (Dial, 1983; University of Alabama Press reprint, 2000), and his latest book, Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations, (University of Alabama Press, 2011), is a “collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure” (source) and collects a series of Sunday features from the Mobile Press-Register, where Hoffman was a longtime staff writer.

As a talented writer of various forms and an experienced educator, Hoffman will no doubt have some insight to share, so don’t forget to tune in at 2pm on WRFL 88.1.
(Click here to stream on the web!)

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Accents Radio 05/16/14: Richard Taylor

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Dr. Richard Taylor will sit down with Katerina today to discuss his newest collection, Rain Shadow (2014 Broadstone Books), among other things.

Taylor is also the author of Accents Publishing’s Fading into Bolivia. He will also join Eric Scott Sutherland and Maurice Manning as guest speakers at this month’s Holler Poets Series at Al’s Bar.

Don’t forget to tune in at 2pm to Accents Radio on WRFL 88.1FM!
(Or stream it live on the web)

Richard Taylor, a past Poet Laureate of Kentucky, is Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University in Lexington. A co-owner of Poor Richard’s Books in Frankfort, he lives outside of that town in a one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old house near Elkhorn Creek, where he kayaks every chance he gets. Author of two novels and several non-fiction books relating to Kentucky history, Rain Shadow is his ninth book of poetry. He is a former distinguished professor of English at Kentucky State University and the recipient of numerous awards, including two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

(Biography from Broadstone Books’ website)

Accents Radio 04/25/14: Christopher McCurry

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Christopher McCurry

Christopher McCurry at AWP 2014

This is the week you’ve all been waiting for, folks, as Katerina sits down to interview Accents’ own Christopher McCurry!

You are probably aware that McCurry is Junior Editor at Accents Publishing. You might even know that his amazing new chapbook, Splayed, recently shipped from ELJ Publications. What you may not know is that his high school students raised money online to fund a play that they produced completely on their own and performed on April 11th. You can find more details here.

splayedChristopher McCurry has also written numerous articles for the Accents Blog and published plenty of poems in respected journals. Please don’t forget to tune in at 2pm to hear as he sits with Katerina.

Tune in at 2pm to 88.1FM WRFL.
(or stream it on the web)

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Accents Radio 04/18/14: Karen George & Mary Anne Reese

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Karen GeorgeKaterina will be sitting down today with poets Karen George of Waypoints literary journal and Mary Anne Reese.

Karen George’ new chapbook, Inner Passage, will be released by Red Birds Chapbooks in May. Mary Anne Reese’s new book, Down Deep, recently came out from Finishing Line Press.

Be sure to tune in as Katerina talks with them both at 2pm on 88.1FM WRFL.
(or stream it live on the web)

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Accents Radio 04/11/14:
Ivan Hristov & Angela Rodel

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Ivan HristovYou might remember Ivan Hristov (Иван Христов) from Katerina’s interview for The Season of Delicate Hunger in which he says that Bulgarian poetry is “restless, throbbing, moving […] It plunges one into the depths, bears him off on the wings of passion, sweeps him into grand crusades.” 

Angela Rodel is a linguist and literary translator hailing from Yale and UCLA. She earned a Fulbright fellowship to study Bulgarian at Sofia University and has since translated plenty of great Bulgarian works (including Hristov’s poetry for The Season of Delicate Hunger).

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Don’t forget to tune in to the conversation at 2pm today on WRFL 88.1FM.
(Or click here to stream it live.)

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Accents Radio 04/04/13: Basil Rouskas

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Basil RouskasToday Accents Radio will feature Katerina’s interview with Greek  poet, activist, and entrepreneur Basil Rouskas.

Rouskas’ first poems in Greek protested the military Junta that took over Greece in the late 1960’s. He immigrated to the US in 1969 and translated literature and theatre (from English to Greek, and vice versa). Gradually, his writing became bilingual, and now he writes just as easily in Greek or English. Continue reading →

Accents Radio 03/28/14: Melissa Tuckey

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[Melissa Tuckey] likes to disorient us, pull the rug from under our expectations, and do so quickly and decisively, so we catch our breath in astonishment and delight…

-Charles Simic,
on Tenuous Chapel (ABZ Press 2013)

tuckeyPoet, writer, translator, and literary activist Melissa Tuckey will sit down with Katerina on today’s Accents Radio. Tuckey’s book Tenuous Chapel was selected by Charles Simic for ABZ Press’s First Book Prize in 2012. She also co-translated a collection by Chinese poet Yang Zi called Dead Moon.

The two will be joined on the show today by former WRFL DJ Jackson E. Schad and founder of Upper Magazine Elizabeth Hicks.

You can find Accents Radio on WRFL 88.1 at 2pm (or stream it on the web here).

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Accents Radio 03/21/14: Jessie Janeshek

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photo from ditch,

Katerina will sit down today with poet Jessie Janeshek.

Janeshek co-edited the anthology Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press 2008) and published the the poetry collection Invisible Minks (Iris Press 2010). She earned a PhD from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and and MFA from Emerson College.

Be sure to tune in at 2pm on WRFL 88.1FM (or stream it live on the web).

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Accents Radio 03/14/14: Steven Wingate

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“Steven Wingate’s poems read like screams from fallen angels disgusted to find themselves mucking around on the muddy, hopeless earth.”

-Peter Conners

Steven Wingate

The above quote refers to Steven Wingate’s The Birth of Trigonometry in the Bones of Olduvai (2013 Finishing Line Press), which collects fifteen years of prose poetry.

Wingate likes to dance around genre boundaries. His current work, daddylabyrinth, “blends personal screen cinema with memoir and the lyric essay.” Wifeshopping (2008 Mariner Books) won the Breadloaf’s Bakeless Prize in 2008, and Birth of Trigonometry came out in October of last year. Hopefully, Wingate will discuss these works, as well as his forthcoming full-length—Thirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations—today on Accents Radio.

The Birth of TrigonometrySo be sure to check in as Katerina Stoykova-Klemer talks with Steven Wingate at 2pm on WRFL 88.1FM (or stream it on the web)!

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Accents Radio 03/07/14: Sheila Bucy Potter

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“When [Sheila Bucy] Potter breathes through her pen, nature sings through her poetry.”

-Joanie DiMartino

Sheila Bucy Potter is the Associate editor of Broadstone Books and recently released You Can Choose Your Friends, a chapbook from Finishing Line Press. She will sit down with Katerina today on Accents Radio at 2pm.

Make sure to tune in to WRFL 88.1FM at 2pm (or you can stream it on the web!)

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