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Stars with Accents: Leatha Kendrick, Paulette Livers, & Lisa Williams

The final event of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference will be this Sunday at 7PM at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and LearningKaterina Stoykova-Klemer will host and ask questions.

photo by John Lynner Peterson

Leatha Kendrick writes essays and poems for anthologies such as What Comes Down to Us: Twenty-Five Contemporary Kentucky Poets, The Kentucky Anthology, and Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. Kendrick’s latest volume of poetry, Almanac of the Invisible, is coming this year from Larkspur Press. (photo by John Lynner Peterson)

IMG_0399Paulette Livers wrote the novel Cementville and earned, along with Joyce Carol Oates and Isabel Allende, the Elle Magazine Lettres Prize 2014. She has earned several awards and had work in such publications as Southwest Review, The Dos Passos Review, and Spring Gun Press.  (photo by Sheli Hadari)

 

Lisa Williams won the Barnard Women Poets Prize with Woman Reading to the Sea (W.W. Norton 2008). Her newest poetry collection, Gazelle in the House, came from New Issues Poetry & Prose earlier this year. She was also recently interviewed on Accents Radio by Katerina.

 

Teen Howl 34 w/ Madison Miller & Bianca Spriggs

Teen Howl 34Tonight’s Teen Howl Poetry Series will feature teen poet Madison Miller. The reading starts at 6pm at the Morris book shop. Open mic sign-ups start at 5:45.

Also, Bianca Spriggs will read as a special guest, and, as always, the event will be hosted by founders Elizabeth Beck and Jay McCoy.

When: Thursday September 4
Where: the Morris book shop
882 E. High St.
Lexington, KY 40502

Facebook Event Page
Teen Howl group page

Eric Sutherland in Shelbyville Tomorrow

Eric Scott SutherlandEric Scott Sutherland will be reading from pendulum tomorrow at Shelbyville’s Sixth and Main Coffeehouse. The reading will start at 4pm and end at 6pm, just in time for 6th Street Live, hosted by All Things Music.

For more information, check out the Facebook page.

Don’t forget to also check out the Facebook Event page for 6th Street Live.

More from pendulum and Eric Scott Sutherland:

Eric Scott Sutherland is a hawk watcher, Kentucky creek walker, tree loving Lorax, community and event organizer, the author of two chapbooks and the full-length collection incommunicado (2007)pendulum is his fourth book of poems. He is the creator and host of Holler Poets Series, a monthly celebration of literature and music since 2008. Eric makes his nest in Lexington. Follow Eric and Holler at www.ericscottsutherland.com.

#LexPoMo Writing Challenge: Three Days Left!

2014-05-18 20.53.15Click here to sign up for the Lexington Poetry Month 2014 Writing Challenge!

As a brief historical recap, the LexPoMo Writing Challenge started as the brainchild of Hap Houlihan and Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. During the month of June, everyone in town (or those out of town who happen to love Lexington) writes a poem every single day. Then you send in at least ten of those poems to the Accents Publishing Blog where we would eventually post them as normal blog posts.

Last year, signing up meant purchasing a book from a local press at a local book store. This year, we managed to fund the event through our amazing sponsors, which means that the only requirement is that you sign up before the deadline! You’ll receive a confirmation email with a mysteriously named “unique code”. This unique code will then allow you to post your own poem on the Accents Blog! So instead of waiting (sometimes for hours) for your poem to be posted, it will now happen instantly! All you have to do is type in that unique code.

And don’t forget to add our Event Calendar to your daily planner! For the first week, we already have these to look forward to:

If there are any events you want us to add, let us know.

Thank you so much, Lexington!

Lexington Poetry Month Events

LPM PosterLexington Month officially begins at 12:00AM on June 1st. Up until that point, you are able to sign up for the LexPoMo Writing Challenge (click here). But we’re excited to see so many other events going on around town during June. We even have an event calendar (which is available at the top of this blog), and we’re keeping that list up to date.

If you’re running any events and want us to put it on the event calendar, just send an email to blog.accents.publishing(at)gmail.com.

Events in June:

Once again, if there’s anything you want to add, just let us know!

Richard Taylor is “Mapping the Local”: Accents Author Update

Off_Sullivan_Lane002-2-742x402Richard Taylor, Kentucky’s poet laureate from 1999-2001 (and author of Fading into Bolivia), unveiled his paintings, drawings, and wood engravings last night at the Jane Chancellor Moore Gallery in downtown Frankfort. The show is called “Mapping the Local”. Described as “deceptively simple”, Taylor’s work demonstrates an “economy of line and stroke [that] echoes his efficiency of words in his verse”.

FlyerYou can enjoy the exhibit until July 25th, but don’t miss the reception this Friday, May 23rd from 5-7PM where Richard Taylor will give a speech as well as read from his newest poetry collection, Rain Shadow (2014 Broadstone Books).

For more details, check out the official JCM Gallery page at Broadstone Books.

Previous updates on Accents Authors:

More from Fading into Bolivia and Richard Taylor:

Richard Taylor, a past Poet Laureate of Kentucky, is Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University in Lexington. A co-owner of Poor Richard’s Books in Frankfort, he lives outside of that town in a one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old house near Elkhorn Creek, where he kayaks every chance he gets. Author of two novels and several non-fiction books relating to Kentucky history, Rain Shadow is his ninth book of poetry. He is a former distinguished professor of English at Kentucky State University and the recipient of numerous awards, including two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mayfest Book Fair & Ephemera Festival

Haley Crigger, Robin LaMer Rahija, Morgan Adams, and Chris at the Carnegie Center's Book Fair in May 2013

Haley Crigger, Robin LaMer Rahija, Morgan Adams, and Chris at the Carnegie Center’s Book Fair in May 2013

Accents Publishing invites you to check out our booths today at both the Mayfest Book Fair and Ephemera Festival at Gratz Park and the Carnegie Center.

We will have copies of Her Limestone Bones: Selections from Lexington Poetry 2013, Square Feet, and The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry.

The Ephemera Fest is “a celebration of zines, indie publications, comix, and more”. The Mayfest Book Fair is part of Mayfest, “a visual, performing and literary arts fair that takes place annually on Mother’s Day weekend, in historic Gratz Park.”

UPDATE: We will also have Eric Sutherland’s new full-length, Pendulum, at our tables!