For Accents Radio, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer will be interviewing Saul Williams today on WRFL 88.1FM at 2PM.

Saul Williams is an accomplished poet, musician, and performer with such credits as the 1996 documentary SlamNation, many critically acclaimed albums (including Saul Williams and The Inevitable Rise of Niggy Tardust), and several books of poetry.

Williams will also be a celebrity judge for the Wild Women of Poetry Slam at Transylvania University’s Carrick Theatre tonight at 6:30-9:30 (hosted by Bianca Spriggs!) followed by a performance in partnership with WRFL’s Boomslang at Natasha’s Bistro at 10PM.

Check out the show, but also, don’t forget about Stars with Accents this Sunday at 7PM at the Carnegie Center as well as the other festivities for the Kentucky Women’s Writer’s Conference and Boomslang!

Eric Scott Sutherland founded the Holler Poets Series over 5 years ago. They meet on the last Wednesday of every month at Al’s Bar in Lexington, KY with an open mic session followed by two or three featured artists.

Eric will be on Accents Radio today at 2PM on WRFL 88.1 Radio Free Lexington hosted by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. Be sure to check it out!

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Today at 2PM on 88.1 WRFL Radio Free Lexington, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer will sit down with Sena Jeter Naslund.

Sena Jeter Naslund is the author of Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette. Her new novel, The Fountain of St. James Court: or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman, will be available on September 17th from William Morrow. Don’t forget to check in at 2PM!

Previous posts about Accents Radio:

• Philip White
• Frank X. Walker
  • Download the interview with Frank X. Walker here.

Frank X Walker talking about his newest book, Turn Me Loose at the Morris book shop

Check out Accents Radio today at 2PM on 88.1FM WRFL. Katerina will be talking with poet laureate Frank X Walker!

Mr. Walker’s newest book, Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, is currently available from University of Georgia Press. He is also known for his biographical collection of poems about jockey Isaac Murphy, I Dedicate This Ride from Old Cove Press as well as coining the term “Affrilachia” and helping found the Affrilachian Poets.

Don’t forget to tune in to Accents Radio every Friday at 2PM!

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Katerina Stoykova-Klemer hosts Accents Radio every Friday from 2-3PM on 88.1 WRFL Lexington. This week’s guest is Elaine Neil Orr, author of the memoir Gods of Noonday: A White Girl’s African Life and the new novel A Different Sun.

Growing up in the savannahs and rain forests of Nigeria, Orr’s parents remained there during the country’s civil war while she left at sixteen and studied creative writing and literature at the University of Louisville. She earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Theology at Emory University and is an award-winning professor of literature and creative non-fiction at North Carolina State University. She is also on the faculty at Spalding University’s low-residency MFA program.

Her memoirs and short fiction have appeared in The Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Blackbird, Prime Number, and Image Journal as well as earning her several Pushcart Prize nominations. She has earned grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Don’t forget to tune into Accents Radio today at 2PM on 88.1 WRFL. For past episodes (as well as this one once it’s available), check out the program archive at KaterinaKlemer.com.

Click here for Elaine Neil Orr’s website.
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