Accents Craft Series

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After a successful launch, we continue offering The Accents Craft Series. We intend for these to deliver brief but powerful bursts of energy and inspiration on interesting topics. You can attend in person and/or online.

Topics:
1/20/2020 6:00pm-7:15pm Chapbooks vs full-length poetry books – purpose, differences, expectations.
1/27/2020 6:00pm-7:15pm Revising and editing your poems – techniques, ideas, best practices.
2/3/2020 6:00pm-7:15pm Marketing your poetry book – todos before and after publication; transforming from a writer into an author.
2/10/2020 6:00pm-7:15pm Ghazals – history, examples, rules and in-class writing exercise.
2/17/2020 6:00pm-7:15pm Villanelles – history, examples, rules and in-class writing exercise.

The sessions are accessible to anyone with a device such as a computer or smartphone and an internet connection. The Accents Craft Series are taught by Katerina Stoykova, owner and senior editor of Accents Publishing. Every Monday 6:00-7:15pm,. Sign up a-la-carte for $25.00 a session, or all 5 for $20 each. Write to accents.publishing@gmail.com if you have questions or to reserve your spot.

Accents on Books: Dear Youngstown: A Love Letter Home

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Dear Youngstown: A Love Letter Home

The poems in Karen Schubert’s Dear Youngstown are deeply rooted in a sense of place, and brimming with animated detail: they might be stamped on the city’s concrete sidewalks, leading the reader on a guided tour of its neighborhoods and landmarks.

Through the poet’s plain-spoken narratives, we enter the atmosphere of the Old Ward Bakery with its “filmy windows stuck shut;” every sense responds to “rat-tail beets, blueberries, basil, muffins and tie-dye” mingled with “jazz, sultry” and banter at “Farmer’s Market.” 

The poet’s affection and concern for her adopted  hometown resonate throughout. We raise a glass at Cedars in “Closing the Bar,” pass an abandoned house with “swayback porch roof/gutters choke and hatch saplings,” in a row of homes slated for razing in “kitty corner from the empty high school.” 

Dear Youngstown is a wonderfully crafted love letter to the beautiful grit of a city on its knees, but rising.

DEAR YOUNGSTOWN
41 pps
retail price $15.00
ISBN #978-1-64092-999-9
Night Ballet Press, February, 2019

 

Barbara Sabol

Barbara Sabol is the author of the poetry collection, Solitary Spin, and two chapbooks, Original Ruse and The distance Between Blues. Barbara’s awards include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council and the Mary Jean Irion Poetry Prize. She reviews poetry books for the blog, Poetry Matters.

ACCENTS POETRY CRAFT SERIES

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ACCENTS POETRY CRAFT SERIES

We’re very happy to start offering live online craft sessions. We intend for these to deliver brief but powerful bursts of energy and inspiration on interesting topics. The sessions are accessible to anyone with a device such as a computer or smartphone and an internet connection.

The sessions are taught by Katerina Stoykova, owner and senior editor of Accents Publishing.

Every Monday 6:00-7:15pm
Sign up a-la-carte for $25.00 a session, or all 5 for $20 each.

Topics:
11/11 Developing a brilliant voice
11/18 Writing very short poems
11/25 Quotes, conversations and scenes in poetry
12/2 Arranging and titling a poetry manuscript
12/9 Submitting your work — pitfalls and strategies

Write to accents.publishing@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

Depending on interest/requests, local people may meet face-to-face.

Online Workshop Opportunity

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Accents Publishing is offering a two-hour online workshop taught by owner and Senior Editor Katerina Stoykova. The topic is “Developing Your Poetry Collection: From Concept to Publication”. Description below.

Sunday, 10th of November, 2-4pm.
$40.00
Write to accents.publishing@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

Before you get up in front of an audience and read from your book, both you and your manuscript go through various stages. This workshop is designed to provide an insight to the considerations and skills necessary to successfully complete each stage and move on to the next. Be ready to learn what to expect, and hear tips on how not to get stuck, how to recognize if you’re making progress, how to make sure you’re focusing on what you have control over, how to keep yourself motivated through all this, and more.

Literary Accents

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a literary magazine from Accents Publishing

Accents Publishing is thrilled to announce the creation of a new literary magazine called Literary Accents !

Inspired by the theme of our best-selling book Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems, we decided to dedicate the first four issues of our new journal to the art of the very short poem.

Issues one to four will contain 50 poems of up to 50 words!

Long live the short poem! We are eager to start working on this exciting magazine and to bring it to your mailbox as soon as possible!

How to Subscribe

You can click here to pay by PayPal and subscribe to the first four issues of Literary Accents.

If you would like to receive printed copies, the cost is $40.00 ($28.00 for the books, $12.00 for shipping). Please make sure to provide an email address for contact and a mailing address to send the physical books.

If you would like to receive the issues electronically only (no paper copy), the cost is $28.00.

If you don’t wish to use Paypal, you can also pay by check. Make checks payable to “Accents Publishing” and send them to:

Accents Publishing
c/o Katerina Stoykova
P.O. Box 910456
Lexington, KY 40591-0456

Frederick Smock: The New Poet Laureate of Kentucky

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Frederick Smock, author of The Deer at Gethsemani: Ecologues, is the new Poet Laureate of Kentucky! The Kentucky Arts council made an announcement on Tuesday, April 18. Smock will officially be inducted on Kentucky Writers’ Day, which is May 1, 2017.

A new Poet Laureate is picked on every odd-numbered year. The honor of Poet Laureate has been held by a few Accents-published authors including George Ella Lyon, Frank X Walker, and Richard Taylor. The current Poet Laureate is George Ella Lyon.

Frederick Smock’s newest book, The Bounteous World, is currently available from Broadstone Books.

Lexington Poetry Month 2017

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Dear Friends and Fans of Accents Publishing,

I am thrilled to see the sustained growth of Lexington Poetry Month and the vibrant enthusiasm of its poets. I am excited to see LexPoMo develop into an important poetry community-building tradition. I am thankful to Bronson and Chris for giving this tradition its own permanent stage to shine from. Please go to LexPoMo.com to see what’s in store. I am thankful for Chris and Bronson and their work, dedication, love for the art of poetry and the magic it brings into our lives. Long live LexPoMo! I will participate as I can!
Yours,
Katerina Stoykova
Founder and Senior Editor of Accents Publishing

New Collection by Nettie Farris: The Wendy Bird Poems

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A new collection by Nettie Farris has been released from Dancing Girl Press. The Wendy Bird Poems continues the short-line style we saw in Communion (Accents Publishing, 2013). Here are some comments about the chapbook by Jeremy Paden and Katerina Stoykova-Klemer:

Indeed! I simply adore these slender poems. Farris knows how to spin and craft and shape the smallest of poems, how to turn the word as on lathe to shave away all that is unnecessary. It is not that she has grown accustomed to the diminished size, it is that she works with the tension between what is said and unsaid, with the tiniest of head nod and wink, and in the smallest of spaces she lays bare great psychological drama that opens up into insight. Do not think because the line is minimal and the poem short that you can skim across the surface of these words.

-Jeremy Paden,
Author of ruina montium
(Broadstone Books, 2016)

The Wendy Bird Poems is a truly unique book, and Nettie Farris is a truly unique poet. The collection encompasses a tender love story, so delicate, that it needs to be told not in sentences, not in words even, but in syllables. The content is distilled to such an extent that we need to be aware of the importance and the weight of every sound. Nettie Farris gives us a huge gift with this book – not only does she present a new kind of poetry, but also she teaches us to read in a new way, to see poems anew. Dear reader, enjoy this work, read it slowly and multiple times. These poems will teach you about sound, lineation, intention.

-Katerina Stoykova-Klemer,
Senior Editor/Founder Accents Publishing

Nettie’s book is currently available at the Dancing Girl Press & Studio website.

Black Bone: Affrilachian Poets 25th Anniversary Reading & Book Release

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Black Bone is an exhibit at Transylvania University’s Morlan Art Gallery that will run from January 13th through February 14th. This Thursday, January 19th, will be a public reading and book release party with several Affrilachian Poets, including Accents published authors Jeremy Paden and Bianca Spriggs. Continue reading →

Frank X Walker Organizes Kentucky Artists in Danville

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According to Rich Copley of the Herald-Leader, Frank X Walker and Lamin Swann are organizing Kentucky artists to meet in Danville. According to the article, Frank said, “I’m crazy enough to believe Kentucky has more artists and writers than horses and distilleries. Yet our arts/artists still seem to be one of our best kept secrets. Given the current political climate in the country, I think its important for artists to be proactive and not reactionary.” Continue reading →