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What’s Line Got to Do With It? Poetic Technique Beyond Lineation with Jay McCoy

Hey Poets! You don’t want to miss this Accents Craft Original session with Jay McCoy!
https://bit.ly/beyond_lineation
Thurs, March 12, 6-8pm
Online
$40

In this workshop, participants will explore poetic devices beyond the lineation toolkit or completely outside of it. While we will focus on writing the prose poem, we will touch on haibun, monostich, concrete, and various types of erasure work as well. The workshop will conclude with timed prompts for participants to try out the discussed techniques with an opportunity to share.

Jay McCoy is the author of The Occupation (Accents Publishing). Born and raised in eastern Kentucky, he now lives in Lexington. Jay is the Director of the Kentucky Book Festival and an adjunct professor at EKU and BCTC teaching first year writing, creative writing, and Appalachian studies. He co-founded the Teen Howl Poetry Series and is co-host of the Kentucky Writers Roundtable on RadioLex.

THE STONE by Joe Survant

Accents Publishing is proud to present The Stone by accomplished poet Joe Survant. Reading these new and selected poems is a form of travel, a spiritual experience, a pilgrimage to visible and invisible worlds. We hope you enjoy this book.

The Stone ships within days and currently the entire Accents Publishing catalog is on 30% off sale.

The Stone: New and Selected Poems from Asia is another gift from Joe Survant’s treasury. I urge you to read this book.
—Peter Coyote, Author, actor, Zen Buddhist Priest

Like snow falling in the rainforest, these poems are surprising, mysterious. They startle with images both strange and familiar, and let us travel to new places in both the world and the heart.
—Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

These poems offer a new dialect to the truths of suffering and spiritual transcendence that are at root our universal human language.
—Richard Taylor, author of Fathers

Ekphrastic Writing with B. Elizabeth Beck

Accents Publishing in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning is proud to offer Ekphrastic Writing: How to Never Face a Blank Page Again with B Elizabeth Beck

This workshop will detail the ekphrastic process and provide prompts that will serve you whenever you face the blank page. Elizabeth will guide you to respond to visual and musical prompts, based upon Painted Daydreams: Collection of Ekphrastic Poems, Dancing on the Page, and Swan Songs. A fun, engaging workshop that celebrates all forms of art.

B. Elizabeth Beck is the author of five collections of poetry, including Mama Tried (Broadstone Books), winner of the American Book Fest Prize for Poetry. She is the author of the Summer Tour Trilogy. Under the Elm placed as finalist for the Book Excellence Awards. Swan Songs is her debut collection of short stories. She was a finalist in the Kentucky State Poetry Society Grand Prix Prize and has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. Elizabeth is a recipient of The Kentucky Foundation for Women grant. Her work appears in journals and anthologies, including Poetica Magazine, Appalachian Review, Limestone Blue, and Harvard Education Press. Elizabeth founded two poetry series, Teen Howl and Poetry at the/ˈtā-bəl/ in Lexington, Kentucky. For more information about Elizabeth: www.elizbeck.com

Thursday, January 22, 6-8pm
Online
$40

Register at https://bit.ly/Ekphrastic_Writing

Happiness Street by Olya Stoyanova

On the way from the printer: Olya Stoyanova’s HAPPINESS STREET!

Accents Publishing is proud to present Happiness Street, a poetry collection by award winning Bulgarian poet Olya Stoyanova. Family relationships, travel and the importance of everyday connections take center stage in these sparse, deceptively simple poems.

Read a sample poem, blurbs, author bio and order your copy at:
https://accents-publishing.com/happinessstreet.html

Complete and Free Audiobook of GIRL by Wendy Jett

Wendy Jett’s WOMAN will be out from Accents Publishing this month. WOMAN is the finale of the GIRL-TAINTED-WOMAN trilogy about a young woman growing up in a complicated family dynamic. We invite you to listen to the complete audiobook of GIRL — the beginning of this gripping, multi-genre story.

Free and read to you by the author:

Results from 2023 Local Accents Contest

Dear Poets,

First, thank you to everyone who submitted poems to the 2023 Local Accent Contest.

Second, please accept our deepest apologies for taking us three extra months to announce the results.

Third, to say that it was difficult to decide on a winner and finalists would be an understatement. Amazing poems landed in the Accents’ inbox and we delighted in the talent and craft of the work we considered.

We’re happy with our choices and thrilled to announce that Lexington-based poet Renee Rigdon‘s poem “Thoughts &” won the Local Accent Contest.

The finalists, in alphabetical order by last name:

“On Burning the Hijab” by Sylvia Ahrens
“Jones Women” by Libby Falk Jones
“clean (n.)” by Jay McCoy
“The Lie” by Leslie Moise
“Broken Ghazal for a Yet-Unbroken Porch Lamp, Purchased Fall 2019” by Jason McKinley Williams
“Will Heaven Heal My Broken Heart or Do They Just Administer Local Anesthesia?” by Mike Wilson

Watch our blog and YouTube for an interview with Renee and for a post with the winning poem!

Yours,

Katerina

2023 Local Accent Poetry Contest

Local Accent Poetry Contest

Prize

The winner will receive $150.00. The winning poem will be published on the Accents Publishing Blog and the author will be interviewed on the Accents YouTube channel. A list of the finalists may be posted and celebrated, as well.

Eligibility

Kentucky residents and those with strong ties to the state are welcome to submit.

Price for participation

None.

How to submit

Email one unpublished poem of any length or style along with a bio of fifty words to accents.publishing@gmail.com. Note that only the winner and the finalists will be contacted about the results.

Deadline

Poems must be received by the 30th of April, the end of National Poetry Month.

Judging and results

Judging will be performed by the Accents Publishing staff and the results will be announced in May.