Bobby Steve Baker reads at the open mic as a part of the launch party for Jim Lally’s Stick Tight Man and Jude Lally’s The View from Down Here (both from Accents Publishing). The event took place at Common Grounds Coffee House on February 4th, 2010.
You can also see Bobby Steve Baker read from his newest book, This Crazy Urge to Live (The Linnett’s Wings Press), this afternoon at the Morris book shop at 3pm.
Poet Laurie Clewett reads “Pigeonish” by Petja Heinrich. This poem was translated from Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.
Clip from the North American Premiere of The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry (Accents Publishing) at the Morris book shop in Lexington, Kentucky.
World traveler Shirley Bratcher reads “Asymmetry” by Roza Boyanova. This poem was translated from Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.
Clip from the North American Premiere of The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry (Accents Publishing) at the Morris book shop.
In 2012, the Lexington Public Library recorded and produced a reading held at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. This event featured readings from Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems.
Below are the other four videos in the series. Continue reading
Writer Neil Chethik reads “(I dream that I cover the grave with wet blankets)” by Marin Bodakov from the collection The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry. This poem was translated by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.
Poet Matthew Haughton reads “The Heart is not a Creator” by Yordan Efftimov, as translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. This was filmed at the Morris book shop for Accents Publishing’s official release reading for The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry.
Yordan Efftimov was born on January 23rd, 1971 in Razgrad. He holds a Ph.D. in Bulgarian literature from St. Kliment Ohridski University. He teaches theory of literature in New Bulgarian University in Sofia. Yordan has worked as an editor and columnist, and has hosted radio and television literary programs. He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently The Heart is Not a Creator (2013), along with five monographs and two textbooks on modern and ancient literature. He lives and works in Sofia.
Matthew Haughton was born in Colorado in 1977. At an early age, his family returned to eastern Kentucky, where his lineage stretches back over a century in the region. Matthew is a graduate of the University of Kentucky. Most recently, he was a finalist in the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning’s Next Great Writer Competition. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines such as Kentucky Monthly, Still: The Journal, and The Heartland Review. This is his first published collection of poems. He lives and works as an artist and educator in Lexington Kentucky.
Leigh Anne Hornfeldt performs at the SAFTA Reading Series in Knoxville, TN.
Leigh Anne Hornfeldt is editor of Two of Cups Press, based in North Carolina. She has also been published by Accents Publishing in both of our Lexington Poetry Month anthologies, Her Limestone Bones and This Wretched Vessel. You can see those poems by clicking here and here, respectively.
Accents Editor Christopher McCurry reads from his chapbook, Splayed (ELJ Publications) during a reading by Sundress Academy for the Arts.
A reading at the Accents Publishing’s and the Lexington Public Library’s series Spring with Accents. From George Ella Lyon’s book She Let Herself Go.
Since George Ella Lyon was officially inducted as Kentucky’s Poet Laureate yesterday, I thought it’d be fun to take a look at some of the poems she’s read, in video form, as well as interviews about craft.
For more information about the induction ceremony, WMKY’s Paul Hitchcock had a nice write-up that you can read here.
Also, here’s a neat video made by a student at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California based on what is arguably George Ella Lyons’s most famous poem, “Where I’m From”, which you can read here.
Also, here are all of the other posts we’ve made about George Ella Lyon:
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