Kathleen Driskell reading some of her poems. This video is from a “Spring with Accents” event at the Lexington Public Library.
Driskell’s newest work, Peck and Pock: A Graphic Poem, combines poetry with a comic book style.
The original trailer for Matthew Haughton’s Bee-Coursing Box from 2011.
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Matthew Haughton was born in Colorado in 1977. At an early age, his family returned to eastern Kentucky, where his lineage stretches back over a century in the region. Matthew is a graduate of the University of Kentucky. Most recently, he was a finalist in the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning’s Next Great Writer Competition. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines such as Kentucky Monthly, Still: The Journal, and The Heartland Review. This is his first published collection of poems. He lives and works as an artist and educator in Lexington Kentucky.
From How Swallowtails Become Dragons by Bianca Spriggs. The full text is available here.
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Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow Bianca Spriggs is a freelance instructor of composition, literature, and creative writing. She holds degrees fromTransylvania University and the University of Wisconsin. She is a Kentucky Humanities Council Lecturer and the creator and programmer of the Wild Women of Poetry Slam (formerly the Gypsy Poetry Slam) featured annually at theKentucky Women Writers Conference. Heralded as “the new standard bearer for the Affrilachian Poets” by founding member Frank X Walker, Bianca is the author of Kaffir Lily (Wind Publications) and her work may also be found in the anthologies New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writings and America! What’s My Name? and the journals Union Station Magazine, Appalachian Heritage Magazine, and others.
A couple years back, the Lexington Public Library hosted an event called Spring with Accents in their Farish Theater.
Richard Taylor read from his then-new Accents chapbook, Fading into Bolivia. Taylor was the Poet Laureate of Kentucky from 1999-2000.
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Two of our published poets from The Season of Delicate Hunger, Emanuil A. Vidinski and Petar Tchouhov, are in the band Par Avion and they have released their first single. Check it out below