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Open Mic: Bobby Steve Baker

Bobby Steve Baker reads at the open mic as a part of the launch party for Jim Lally’s Stick Tight Man and Jude Lally’s The View from Down Here (both from Accents Publishing). The event took place at Common Grounds Coffee House on February 4th, 2010.

You can also see Bobby Steve Baker read from his newest book, This Crazy Urge to Live (The Linnett’s Wings Press), this afternoon at the Morris book shop at 3pm.

A Reading of Bobby Steve Baker’s “This Crazy Urge to Live”

Bobby Steve BakerBobby Steve Baker (author of Numbered Bones) has a new book called This Crazy Urge to Live: Poetry, Photography, and More Fine Art from The Linnet’s Wings Press, and the Morris book shop will host a reading this Saturday at 3pm.

For more information, check out the Facebook Event page or the Morris book shop Event page.

For an interview with Bobby Steve Baker by Bop Dead City earlier this year, click here.

When: Saturday, August 29, 2015 @ 3pm
Where: the Morris book shop
882 E. High Street
Lexington, KY 40502
(859) 276-0494

 

Accents Author Update: Bobby Steve Baker

Bobby Steve BakerBobby Steve Baker (author of Numbered Bones) is set to release a new collection of ekphrastic poetry, This Crazy Urge to Live (Linnet’s Wings), and was recently interviewed by Bop Dead City (you can read the interview by clicking here). In the interview, he talks about his greatest influences, his inspirations, and even doles out some wisdom for aspiring poets:

“I don’t care what critique groups say about a poem; if I like it then it’s a keeper.”

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This Crazy Urge to Live is expected in March, so keep checking out the Linnett’s Wings site, or stay tuned to the Accents Blog for updates on all of our authors as well as anything Lexington poetry-related.