Artist Simeon Kondev reads “The Undressed Wind” by Yasen Vasilev. This poem was translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.
This clip is from the North American premiere of The Season of Delicate Hunger at the Morris book shop.
Simeon is a professional animator. You can find his animation here.
You can find more from Yasen Vasilev on the Accents Blog.
Aside from being the author of our newest chapbook, Deflection, Roberta Beary recently won the Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku contest with the following haiku:
quiet rain…
a robin slips through
my chemo fog
You can find out more information by clicking here.
She was also featured (along with Richard Gilbert) on Timothy Green’s video series Transatlantic Poetry on the Air, which you can see below.
And to check out Deflection, you can read a poem here or pick up a copy at the Accents Store.
Poet Dennis Preston reads “Recommendation to God” by Bina Kals. This poem was translated from the original Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.
The videos in this series come from the North American Premiere of The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry at the Morris book shop.
The first two poets Accents had the privilege of publishing were Jude and Jim Lally (The View from Down Here and Stick Tight Man, respectively).
The above video is Jim Lally’s reading at our premiere of these two books. The second half of the reading is below.
Two of our published poets from The Season of Delicate Hunger, Emanuil A. Vidinski and Petar Tchouhov, are in the band Par Avion. They released their first single (“Photograph”) last August. Below is their latest song, “I Can See”.
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Emanuil Vidinski was born on June 27th, 1978 in Vidin. He holds a degree in Slavic and Germanic studies from St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. He is the author of a short story collection, a novel and a poetry collection, Par Avion (2011). Emanuil is the creator and editor of the World Novels series for Altera Press. He was an editor in the Bulgarian department of Deutsche Welle radio in Germany from 2008 to 2012. He currently lives and works in Sofia.
Petar Tchouhov was born on June 23rd, 1961 in Sofia. He holds degrees in library science and sociology from St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. He is the author of 11 poetry books, most recently When Unicorns Return (2011), and his work has been translated into many languages. Petar has received international recognition for his haiku, including the Basho Museum Award in Japan in 2007, and he is the recipient of many other international awards for his lyrical poetry. Petar also writes music and performs in several bands, including the spoken rock band LaText.
Emanuil A. Vidinski’s “You are Beautiful” read by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer—who also translated it from the original Bulgarian—at the Morris book shop.
You can find more contemporary Bulgarian poetry in our anthology, The Season of Delicate Hunger.
Emanuil Vidinski was born on June 27th, 1978 in Vidin. He holds a degree in Slavic and Germanic studies from St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. He is the author of a short story collection, a novel and a poetry collection, Par Avion (2011). Emanuil is the creator and editor of the World Novels series for Altera Press. He was an editor in the Bulgarian department of Deutsche Welle radio in Germany from 2008 to 2012. He currently lives and works in Sofia.
This video was made for Barabara Sabol’s chapbook, Original Ruse (Accents Publishing).
Barbara Sabol’s poetry and prose has appeared in Public-Republic, Blood Lotus, Poets 350, the Tupelo Press Poetry Project,Tributaries, and on the Akron Art Museum’s website. She has an MFA from Spalding University. Barbara is a long-practicing speech therapist, living in northeastern Ohio with her partner and dogs.
Krasimir Vardyev’s “Homecoming” was read at the Morris book shop as part of the release celebration for The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry. The English version of the poem was translated by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.
The poem was read by Nadezhda Nikolova, an artist from the former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria who specializes in wet plate collodion photography. She currently resides in Lexington, Kentucky. You can find her website by clicking here.
Krasimir Vardyev was born on May 17th, 1978 in Beloslav. He holds a degree from Kontantin Preslavsky University of Shumen. He has received awards for his poetry and prose, among which is the Southern Spring Award for his debut poetry collection, Curb, in 2001. From 1998 to 2003, he was a co-organizer and participant in the “Street Poetry” campaign. His second poetry book, Symbiosis, was published in 2007. Krasimir lives and works in Sofia.
Every June is Lexington Poetry Month, and the Accents Blog hosts the Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge. The Challenge encourages Lexington’s brilliant voices to express themselves, and challenges everyone to write a poem every day throughout the month of June. At the end of the month, the Lexington Public Library’s Farish Theater hosts a reading with some of the participants. Continue reading
Bianca reads at the release party for Jim Lally’s Stick Tight Man and Jude Lally’s The View from Down Here.
Bianca Bargo’s How I Became an Angry Woman will come out later this year from Accents Publishing.