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Spalding MFA Presents a Celebration of Kentucky Poets

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On Sunday, the Spalding MFA in Writing will hold a reading by established poets from around the state, including Accents-published poets Jeremy Paden (Broken Tulips, 2013) and Frederick Smock (The Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues, 2011). The event is part of a weekend-long celebration that includes a faculty reading on Saturday and an open house Sunday morning.

Readings will include:

Click here for event information from the Kentucky Literary Calendar.

When: Sunday, November 13, 2016 @ 5:30-6:45pm
Where: Spalding University
Egan Leadership Center
901 S 4th St
Louisville, KY 40507
(502) 873-4400

Teen Howl 37 Tonight, Off the Ground Tomorrow

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Tonight the Morris book shop will host the Teen Howl Poetry Series featuring Lucy Wan. Tomorrow night, Common Grounds Coffee House will host Off the Ground with special guest Lisa Williams. Both will host an open mic.

Teen Howl Poetry Series #37 featuring Lucy Wan

When: Thursday, December 4, 2014 @ 6pm
Where: the Morris book shop
882 E. High St.
Lexington, KY 40502

teen howl 37The Teen Howl Poetry Series was started by Elizabeth Beck and Jay McCoy to showcase and celebrate Lexington’s teen poets.

Off the Ground Open Mic w/ Lisa Williams

When: Friday, December 5, 2014 @ 6pm
Where: Common Grounds
343 E High St
Lexington, KY 40507

off the ground lisa williamsOff the Ground was started by the University of Kentucky’s English department and is hosted by Limestone, Graphite, and Shale Literary Journal.

Readings by Lisa Williams, Courtney C. Stevens, & Don Lichtenfelt

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The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky is hosting it’s Kentucky Great Writers Series. One of the featured readers, Lisa Williams, is a recurring guest on Accents Radio, and was featured on August 29th’s Accents Radio show, as well as read as one of the features at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference’s Stars with Accents reading.

Williams will be reading from her Barnard Women Poets Prize winning poetry collection Gazelle in the House (New Issues Poetry & Prose 2014).

The event will also host Courtney C. Stevens and her debut novel, faking normal, as well as Don Lichtenfelt and his memoir from Wind Publications, Goodbye Lake Huron. And, as an additional treat, the event will be hosted by friend of Accents, Leatha Kendrick.

The open mic will start at 7:00pm, so be sure to find a seat a few minutes early.

When: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 @ 7:00pm
Where: The Carnegie Center
251 West Second Street
Lexington, KY 40507

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Poetry Events Week of October 13th, 2014

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October 14, 2014

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The Kentucky Great Writers Series
Starts: 7:00 pm
Location: Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning 251 W 2nd St, Lexington, Kentucky 40507
Featured Writers:
with emcee Leatha Kendrick

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

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The final event of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference will be this Sunday at 7PM at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. Katerina 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.

 

Accents Radio 8/29/14: Lisa Williams

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Today at 2pm, Katerina will sit down with poet Lisa Williams, author of Gazelle in the House (New Issues Poetry & Prose) for the newest Accents Radio.

Guest speaker Julie Wrinn will make an appearance to discuss the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, as well, so be sure to tune in at 2pm on WRFL 88.1FM.

Lisa Williams will also be reading with Leatha Kendrick and Paulette Livers on September 14th at the final event of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. You can get more information here.