Accents Publishing released ten books in 2015.
The Lexington Poetry Month 2014 Writing Challenge led to 114 poets submitting over 1,100 poems on the Accents Publishing Blog. You can sign up for this year’s Writing Challenge by clicking here*, but the featured poets will have a chance to read their work tonight at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
Anyone who has been published in the anthology is welcome to read, and anyone who is interested in Lexington, poetry, or Lexington Poetry Month is encouraged to attend and bring friends, family, and poetry fiends. We will provide light refreshments and snacks. You will provide a fun, supportive atmosphere for our featured poets.
Also, a big shout-out goes to Eric Sutherland for giving Accents such a kind and generous mention during last night’s Holler Poets reading, and to Jude Lally for reading “No Matter What”, the poem that gave us the title of our anthology. We are so gracious to not only have such people in our books, but in our lives as well.
| When: | Thursday, May 28, 2015 @ 6pm |
| Where: | The Carnegie Center |
| 251 West Second Street | |
| Lexington, KY 40507 | |
| (859) 254-4175, ext. 21 |
We 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.
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.
