Artist Kurt Gohde reads “Time is a Neutron Bomb” by Georgi Gospodinov. This poem was translated by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.
Clip from the North American premiere of The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry (Accents Publishing).
In 2010, Accents hosted a launch party for Stick Tight Man and The View from Down Here. Here is a video of Eric Scott Sutherland reading at the event.
This is just a reminder to fans of Accents Publishing that Proud Citizen will be making its Lexington premiere on Thursday, January 15th.
poster by Cricket Press
Directed by Thomas Southerland, Proud Citizen stars Katerina Stoykova-Klemer as Krasimira Stanimirova, a Bulgarian playwright who won second place in a play-writing contest and finds out that Kentucky (and the US, for that matter) is not what she had expected. The film also contains the work of local artists, such as music producer Otto Helmuth, and features acting from Natalie E. Cummins, Leif Erickson, Ryan Case, and others.
Tickets are available now at the Kentucky Theatre, or you can get them online by clicking here.
The film starts at 7:30pm, but Kremena Todorova and JD Lester are having a potluck starting at 6:30 at the Kentucky Theatre, so bring something and get a chance to meet the cast and crew.
“Lexicography of a Pig” by Dimiter Kenarov from The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry, read by Christopher McCurry at the Morris book shop.
“Cicada” by Vladimir Levchev. Translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. Read by Eric Scott Sutherland, who knows a thing or two about cicadas.
From The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry.
For the past two years, the Lexington Public Library has hosted a reading at the Farish Theater for Lexington Poetry Month. This video from 2013 features 20 readings from LPM participants, whose names (and time stamps for when they read) are listed below.
(Click a poet’s name to see his or her submitted poems for 2013.) Continue reading
Poet Larry Moore reads “The History of Life” by Sasho Serafimov. This poem was translated by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.
Clip from the North American premiere of The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry (Accents Publishing).
Kathleen Driskell reading some of her poems. This video is from a “Spring with Accents” event at the Lexington Public Library.
Driskell’s newest work, Peck and Pock: A Graphic Poem, combines poetry with a comic book style.
The original trailer for Matthew Haughton’s Bee-Coursing Box from 2011.
More from Bee-Coursing Box and Matthew Haughton:
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.
Leatha Kendrick reading “What I Wanted but Couldn’t Tell…” by Mirela Ivanova.
Poem’s full title:
WHAT I REMEMBERED, BUT COULDN’T TELL MY SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, WHILE WE WERE STUCK FOR 11 MINUTES IN THE ELEVATOR AND SHE TUMBLED, BOUNCED FROM CORNER TO CORNER LIKE A BLAZED AND CRAZED, SPARKLING FIREWORK AND HER TEARS ROLLED GIANT, APOCALYPTIC BEHIND THE LENSES OF HER GLASSES, AND I WAS TRYING TO YELL OVER HER HORROR, TO PET HER SCARLET CHEEKS AND FOREHEAD, TO EMBRACE HER AND GATHER HER BACK INTO MYSELF AND SING TO HER CONSOLINGLY, BECAUSE I ALREADY KNEW THAT CHILDREN RECOGNIZE THE VOICES AND THE PULSES OF THEIR MOTHERS FROM AMONG 3000 NOISES
from The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry
To see more from Leatha Kendrick, don’t forget to check out Stars with Accents this Sunday at 7PM at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning where she’ll be reading with Paulette Livers and Lisa Williams in an event hosted by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.