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This Wretched Vessel is Now Available

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This Wretched VesselWe are proud to present our anthology for the Lexington Poetry Month 2014 writing challenge!

This Wretched Vessel  is a 162-page collection of poems written and submitted by a diverse group of poets during the 2014 Lexington Poetry Month, in which participants were challenged to write at least one poem a day. Our favorite poems were selected (by editors Hap Houlihan, Christopher McCurry, and Robin LaMer-Rahija) from those submitted, and the result is an emotional, courageous, and sometimes funny poetry collection featuring the work of 114 authors.

The stunning cover art was created by Theo Edmonds.

What others had to say:

As I write this, it is April, National Poetry Month, and I am thinking about Lexington’s place in National Poetry Month, and its choice to have its poetry month in June, a move that goes against the grain. Accents Publishing, the marvelous publisher of this collection, once again goes against the grain with This Wretched Vessel. Selected by three of Lexington’s fine poets, Hap Houlihan, Robin LaMer Rahija, and Christopher McCurry, this anthology is an exciting and varied gathering of poems written during Lexington Poetry Month by an exciting and varied gathering of poets—a showcase of the diverse, vibrant, new and established voices coming out of (and to) Lexington—reading This Wretched Vessel is a lot like taking a drive on a Kentucky road in the month of June—”night air sticky at our backs, we roam” (Erin Mathew’s “Calluses”); “haunches quivers” (tina andry); “The color of dry earth before a summer rain” (Jen Parks); “Ideal isolation” (Chuck Clenney).

– Julia Johnson

The complete list of poets is below, but you can also find their entries (formatted for the web) by clicking right here.

Authors

yahieisha adams, Mary Allen, tina andry, Bobby Steve Baker, Jenni B. Baker, Eduardo Ballestero, Jennifer Barricklow, Leslie Bartley, Allie Marini Batts, Elizabeth Beck, Gaby Bedetti, Maggie Brewer, Mattie Bruton, Jennifer Burchett, Joan Burke, Elizabeth Burton, Nora Burton, Linda Caldwell, Amy Camuglia, Erin Chandler, Sherry Chandler, David Cole, Deborah Adams Cooper, Sean L Corbin, Chuck Clenney, Naomi Clewett, Roger Conner, Taylor Emily Copeland, bront davis, Andrew Depew, Serena Devi, Bernie Deville, Julian DeVille, Laurel Dixon, Marta Dorton, M J Eaton, hb elam, Kate Fadick, Nettie Farris, Matt Finley, Chloe Forsting, Morghan Fuller, Duke Gatsos, Barry George, Karen George, S.R. Gollihue, Jaria Gordon, Pauletta Hansel, Marvis Lisso Hartman, Matthew Haughton, Pamela Gibbs Hirschler, Kristy Horine, Leigh Anne Hornfeldt, Sue Neufarth Howard, carole johnston, Elizabeth Kilcoyne, Robert S. King, corey kirby, Michelle Knickerbocker, Zlatna Kostova, Jim Lally, Jude Lally, Ann Neuser Lederer, George Ella Lyon, Patrick Maloney, Erin Mathews, Jay McCoy, Christopher McCurry, Chaiya Miller, Samantha Jean Moore, Ryan D. Mosley, J W Mullins, Cheyenne Neckmonster, Joseph Allen Nichols, Carmen Norris, Kristine Nowak, Bronson O’Quinn, Andres Ortiz, Pat Owen, jeremy dae paden, Rayny Palmer, Jen Parks, Catherine Perkins, Melva Sue Priddy, Robin LaMer Rahija, Katie Riley, Jonel Sallee, Douglas Self, Vijay Singh, Savannah Sipple, meadow dawn smith, MC Spam Bot, Matt Spencer, Bianca Spriggs, Jay St. Orts, Tina Parker, Liz Prather, Dennis Preston, Keith Stewart, Travis Stidham, Karah Stokes, Victoria Sullivan, Eric Scott Sutherland, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Rudy Thomas, Alexis Tipton, Beatrice Underwood-Sweet, Milena Valkanova, Maggie Wells, Shuntella Whitfield, K. Nicole Wilson, J. Wise, Tyler Worthington

#LexPoMo Writing Challenge: Three Days Left!

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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!

LexPoMo: One More Week!

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LPM PosterWith Lexington Poetry Month only one week away, we are in full-swing with the LexPoMo Writing Challenge 2014. If you haven’t signed up, you have a full six days left to do so (just click here).

A few things to remember:

  • Write a poem every day
    • quantity over quality, since practice makes perfect
  • You only have to submit ten
    • So if you don’t like one, or it’s too personal, you don’t have to share it.
  • The deadline is May 31st at 11:59pm 
    • No sign-ups will be accepted for publishing on the blog, but don’t be discouraged about participating on your own!
  • Check out the event calendar
    • There are currently 13 events independent of the LexPoMo Writing Challenge that you should check out and consider supporting!
  • Have fun!
    • Poetry doesn’t always elicit warm, fuzzy emotions (in fact, it rarely does), but engaging with other poets and sharing your work garners positive results, so don’t be afraid to participate!

Later this week (hopefully tomorrow) I will post a video explaining how to use our new submission process. We have fortunately given the power to submit, format, and publish the poems into your hands, so more details will come about how to do that. But in the mean time, remember that when you signed up we gave you a unique code that looks like this:

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or like this:

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Or some other gibberish. And in the email, we asked you to “save this code and do not share it with anyone.” The instructions for that will come soon, but if you have somehow lost your code, email me at blog.accents.publishing [at] gmail.com and I’ll resend you that code.

Thanks so much for signing up, and, if you haven’t, just click here!

Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop (or, What Breaks) by Lynnell Edwards

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What Breaks

Well, I’m a lucky man
With fire in my hands

—The Verve, “Lucky Man”

This epigraph starts off Lynnell Edwards’s newest chapbook with poems inspired by glassblowing in the “hot shop”.

“Through empathy and penetrating observation, Edwards goes deep inside the art of glassmaking. What she brings back in the form of poems is fascinating—she has absorbed and passes on to us the jargon of the guild, as well as the cautions and the glories the ‘kings of the hot shop’ encounter on the way to finished creations. It is a small, self enclosed universe, and Edwards its sympathetic cosmologist.”

– Jeffrey Skinner

Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop (or, What Breaks) will be released on June 15th. If you think you’ll be too busy with the Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge, we’ll go ahead and let you pre-order! Then, halfway through a stressful month of daily poem writing, you get a cool gift delivered straight to your door!

Or, if you’re more of an “in-person” kind of person, Lynnell Edwards is having a release party at Flame Run Hot Shop in Louisville, Kentucky on June 19th.

photo by John Nation

photo by John Nation

Lynnell Edwards is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Covet (Red Hen Press, 2011). Her short fiction and book reviews have also appeared widely in such literary journals as Pleiades, American Book Review, New Madrid, and The Connecticut Review. She is Associate Professor of English at Spalding University, and prior to that, a faculty member at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. Lynnell is a graduate of Centre College, the center of the glass-blowing universe in Kentucky.

Lexington Poetry Month Events

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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!