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Abigail Keam and Doug Tattershall on Accents Radio! (02/28/14)

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“Walter Neff was nursing a drink at Al’s Bar on the corner of Sixth and Limestone. He intended to do more than nurse it. He was going to get stinking drunk.”

Abigail KeamThus starts award-winning mystery writer Abigail Keam’s newest Josiah Reynolds mystery. Death by Chocolate just came out in December. Among her many noteworthy accomplishments, Keam is a 16-time award-winning beekeeper, which explains why Death by a Honeybee (her first Josiah Reynolds novel) won Gold Medal in the 2010 Reader’s Favorite.

Alongside Keam, Katerina will be talking with freelance journalist Doug Tattershall. After a lengthy stint for Danville’s Advocate-Messenger, Tattershall worked for the University of Kentucky. He currently resides as the Media Relations Coordinator for the Lexington Public Library and organizes community events, such as the largest city-oriented group on GoodReads.

Doug TattershallTattershall’s new book, American Magdalene (Wind Publications 2014), covers Lexington madam Belle Brezing, who went from a rough life on the streets to leading what Time Magazine called the “most orderly of disorderly houses”, eventually inspiring the character of Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind.

With references to Al’s Bar all the way to Lexington brothels, today’s show will be full of Lexington love, so be sure to tune in on WRFL 88.1FM at 2PM (or stream it on the web).

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Accents Radio 02/21/14: Angela Jackson-Brown

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“1978. The year I turned ten and the year my mama killed herself. She was thirty-five, and dying is the last thing that should have been on her mind.”

Angela Jackson-brownThe above excerpt from Drinking from a Bitter Cup, demonstrates why Angela Jackson-Brown’s debut novel is “textured with beauty and weight” according to Ravi Howard of Like Trees, Walking.

Aside from her Bitter Cup, Jackson-Brown will likely discuss teaching English at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and her experience with Spalding Unviersity’s MFA program as she chats with Katerina on today’s Accents Radio.

Be sure to check out Angela Jackson-Brown’s website, where Drinking from a Bitter Cup is currently available.

And don’t forget to tune in at 2PM on 88.1FM WRFL to engage with the conversation. (Click here to stream it live from the web.)

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Accents Radio Update 02/14/14: Jude McPherson

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The bio from Jude McPherson’s poetry collection on my mind says:

Raised somewhere between the tobacco fields and horse farms of Woodford County, Kentucky, Jude McPherson has been bending and stretching syllables as long as he can remember.

At the Carnegie Center with Andrew the Camel

At the Carnegie Center with Andrew the Camel

Affrilachian poet and founder of Blacoetry Press, Jude McPherson, will sit down with Katerina to discuss Jupiter’s Child, his upcoming collection from Winged City Chapbook Press.

Tune in to Accents Radio every Friday at 2pm on WRFL 88.1FM.
(Or click here to stream it on the web)

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Accents Radio Update 02/07/14: Denise Giardina & Kim Edwards

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They is many a way to mark a baby while it is still yet in the womb. A fright to its mother will render it nervous and fretful after it is birthed. If a copperhead strikes, a fiery red snake will be stamped on the baby’s face or back. And a portentous event will violate a woman’s entrails, grab a youngun by the ankle and wrench a life out of joint.

Denise Giardina,

Storming Heaven (1987)

giardina_denisePassages like this one (which kicks off the book!) are why Denise Giardina is an award-winning author and an Appalachian treasure.

A soot-soaked upbringing in Bluefield, West Virginia left an indelible mark that bleeds through Giardinia’s writing as well as her political career. Her candidacy for West Virginia governor in 2000 led to the formation of the Mountain Party, which focuses on progressive environmental attitudes, especially towards coal mining.

And if that weren’t enough, Kim Edwards—author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (2006’s USA Today Book of the Year)—will be making a special guest appearance!

MemoryKeepersDaughterGiardina and Edwards will sit down with Katerina today, so be sure to tune in at 2pm on Radio Free Lexington 88.1 WRFL.
(Click here for a live stream on the web).

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Accents Radio 01/31/14: Mary Popham

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Back HomeToday on Accents Radio, Katerina will interview the multi-talented writer Mary Popham.

Popham has published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more in such places as The Louisville Review, The Courier Journal, and Appalachian Heritage, among others. Her novel, Back Home in Landing Run, is about how Haley’s Comet changed an entire town in central community. It came out in October 2013 to high praise. Here are what a couple critics have said about it:

“Here is a romance as sweet as a Kentucky jam cake.”

-Sena Jeter Naslund.

“Back Home in Landing Run is a vivid story of a community in crisis and a woman coming into her own.”

-George Ella Lyon.

Be sure to tune in at 2pm on WRFL 88.1 Radio Free Lexington (or stream it live on the web!)

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Accents Radio 01/24/14: Colin Watkins

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Colin WatkinsAccents Radio is celebrating its fifth anniversary today! As part of the show, Katerina will be sitting down with Colin Watkins. Not only is Colin Watkins an accomplished singer/songwriter, but he co-founded the Poezia poetry group with Katerina back in 2006. No doubt other festivities are in store, so be sure to tune in!

You can find Accents Radio at 2PM on WRFL 88.1 Radio Free Lexington every Friday. You can also stream it live on the web.

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Accents Radio 01/17/14: John James

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On Accents Radio, Katerina will interview poet John James. Be sure to tune in at 2PM on 88.1 WRFL Radio Free Lexington or stream it live on the web.

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John James was born in California and raised in Kentucky. His work appears or is forthcoming in Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Best New Poets 2013, and elsewhere. He holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University, where he held multiple fellowships and received an Academy of American Poets Prize. In 2008, he was granted a scholarship from the English-Speaking Union’s Kentucky Branch to study at Oxford University. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where he teaches at Bellarmine University and co-curates the Speak Social Reading Series.

Accents Radio 12/27/13: Mark Webb & Molly McCormack

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Photographer Mark Webb and musician Molly McCormack will be joining Katerina today on Accents Radio. Be sure to tune in at 2PM on 88.1 WRFL Radio Free Lexington or stream it on the web.

Mark Webb is best known for his urban landscapes, rural life, nature scenes, and nautical elements. He became well established in Louisville, KY for his black and white stills, but now mostly works with digital SLR photography.

Molly McCormack plays the dulcimer and is mostly known for her folk and traditional music. She is a regular teacher at Kentucky Music Week in Bardstown, KY and has taught at the Augusta Heritage Center Dulcimer Week in Elkins, WV and the Appalachian State University Dulcimer Week in Boone, NC.
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Accents Radio 12/20/13: Robin LaMer Rahija, Greg Lamer, and Mikey Swanberg

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Robin LaMer Rahija and Greg Lamer watching the Rabbit Catastrophe table at the Night Market

Robin LaMer Rahija and Greg Lamer watching the Rabbit Catastrophe table at the Night Market. Photo by Varooj Abedian.

Today I am proud to announce that Katerina will be talking with Robin LaMer Rahija, Greg Lamer, and Mikey Swanberg on Accents Radio. Be sure to tune in at 2PM on WRFL 88.1 Radio Free Lexington or stream it on the web.

Robin LaMer Rahija is a graduate teacher in the University of Kentucky’s English department and poetry editor of the university’s literary journal, Limestone. She owns and operates Rabbit Catastrophe Press with her husband, Greg Lamer, and is a poet in her own right. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Robin is also an intern for Accents Publishing. I interviewed her a few weeks back. That interview is available here. Greg also writes prose and edits the prose section of Rabbit Catastrophe Review.

Mikey Swanberg also works for Limestone and is the new poetry editor for Rabbit Catastrophe Review. His Scrap Chap™ Zen and the Art of Bicycle Delivery is currently available from Rabbit Catastrophe Review. You can check out a full interview with Mikey (conducted by Robin) by clicking here.

Accents Radio 12/06/13: Mary Popham

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On today’s episode of Accents Radio, Katerina will be interviewing Kentucky writer Mary Popham. To check it out, you can tune in to 88.1FM WRFL Radio Free Lexington at 2pm or stream it live on the internet.

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