image from the Kentucky Arts Council website
Accents readers might be interested in “Where I’m From”: A Poetry of Place, which is an annual celebration of Kentucky poetry originating from George Ella Lyon’s poem of the same name.
One of the goals of this celebration is to collect a “Where I’m From” poem from all 120 counties in Kentucky. For more information and rules, please click here. For a list of your county’s representative, click here.
The deadline to submit a poem is December 1st, 2016.
Lori meadows, Executive Director for the Kentucky Arts Council gave the opening remarks for Kentucky Writers’ Day on April 25th, 2016.
Below are videos of the other readers, three of which are poets published by Accents and all of which are Poet Laureates of Kentucky.
This month, there are quite a few events in Lexington, Kentucky celebrating National Poetry Month. Here are a few of them.
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This Thursday, April 7th, at 6pm, the Morris book shop. Hosted, as always, by Elizabeth Beck and Jay McCoy. Open mic sign-up starts at 5:45pm.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
6pm @ the Morris book shop
882 E High Street,
Lexington, KY 40502 Continue reading
Frank X Walker read during the inauguration of George Ella Lyon at Kentucky Writers’ Day on April 24th, 2015. He read the poem “Love Letter to the World”, which was the poem selected for the Lexington Tattoo Projectin in 2015.
Kentucky Writers’ Day was established by the Kentucky General Assemply in 1990 in order to honor Robert Penn Warren, which is why it is set on or around his birthday, April 24th. Every odd year, the event inaugurates the new Kentucky Poet Laureate. In 2015, that was George Ella Lyon.
The next Kentucky Writers’ Day will be on Monday, April 25th at the Capital Rotunda in Frankfort, Kentucky. Click here for more information.
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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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
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The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning will be hosting a reading to honor Jane Gentry, a former poet laureate of Kentucky. Hosted by Kasia Pater, the event will feature 19 Kentucky writers to read Jane’s work, some of which include Bobbie Ann Mason, George Ella Lyon, Mary Ann Taylor Hall, and Leatha Kendrick. In an interview with the Herald-Leader, Sue Churchill (one of the event’s organizers) said, “We don’t want this to have a funeral atmosphere. This is a celebration of the blessing that Jane brought to all of us and to this area of the country.” (source)
You can find more information:
The above audio clip is a snippet of an interview Jane had with Katerina on Accents Radio. The full interview can be found by clicking here.
| When: | Monday, February 9, 2015 @ 6pm |
| Where: | The Carnegie Center |
| 251 W. Second St. | |
| Lexington, KY 40507 |
Accents Publishing is thrilled to announce the contributors to the 2014 anthology of Lexington Poetry Month. Presented here in alphabetical order by last name: Continue reading
(left to right) Robert L. Brown, Sarah Raymer, Angela Jackson Brown, Katerina, Nathan Cunningham
This year Katerina announced that she’d be taking a break from Accents Radio for the Spring semester.
However, all episodes have been recorded and are being added to the archive.
Below are most of the shows from this past year.
(You can download by right-clicking and choosing “Save As”) Continue reading