Events.
- 01/15/13 : Featured reader, Third Tuesday reading series, 7:00pm in Owensboro, KY
- 05/13/13 : Featured reader, Second Sunday reading series, 3:30pm at Kentucky Coffeetree Café, 235 W. Broadway St., Frankfort, KY
- 02/10/12 : Featured reader, along with Alyssa Knickerbocker, at the InKY reading series, 7:00pm at The Bard's Town, 1801 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY
Workshops.
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R150. Sharing Our Common Wealth: How Kentucky Became a Literary Arts Capital of Mid-America
(Julie Kuzneski Wrinn, Neil Chethik, Lynnell Edwards, Bianca Spriggs, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer)
The writing life in Kentucky is rich with opportunity, thanks not only to its academic programs but also to its myriad writing communities. Learn how two institutions—the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, founded in 1979, and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, founded in 1992—work together to build audiences, share resources, and support newer literary groups such as the Affrilachian Poets, InKy Reading Series, Gypsy Poetry Slam, Holler Poets Series, and Accents Publishing.
(Julie Kuzneski Wrinn, Neil Chethik, Lynnell Edwards, Bianca Spriggs, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer)
The writing life in Kentucky is rich with opportunity, thanks not only to its academic programs but also to its myriad writing communities. Learn how two institutions—the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, founded in 1979, and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, founded in 1992—work together to build audiences, share resources, and support newer literary groups such as the Affrilachian Poets, InKy Reading Series, Gypsy Poetry Slam, Holler Poets Series, and Accents Publishing.
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R227. Writing in More than one Language: Significance, Opportunities, Challenges, and Audiences
(Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Ewa Chrusciel, Jennifer Dick, Pablo Medina, Simon Ortiz, Luisa Villani)
Six bilingual authors of poetry discuss the creative process they employ in writing bilingual works, the challenges of translating between languages, the role of multilingualism in communicating to specific audiences, and how readers with different linguistic backgrounds react to the works. Each author on the panel will read poems in his or her working languages. Audience members will hear readings in Acoma, Bulgarian, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.
(Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Ewa Chrusciel, Jennifer Dick, Pablo Medina, Simon Ortiz, Luisa Villani)
Six bilingual authors of poetry discuss the creative process they employ in writing bilingual works, the challenges of translating between languages, the role of multilingualism in communicating to specific audiences, and how readers with different linguistic backgrounds react to the works. Each author on the panel will read poems in his or her working languages. Audience members will hear readings in Acoma, Bulgarian, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.
- Mar-May 2012 : Master Class in Poetry, Part 2, Carnegie Center writing workshop, 5:00-7:30pm, 251 W. Second St, Lexington, Kentucky
- 03/01/12 : Sharing Our Common Wealth: How Kentucky Became a Literary Arts Capital of Mid-America, AWP Writer's Conference, Panel R150, 12:00-1:15pm, Astoria, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor, Chicago, Illinois
- Mar-May 2011 : Master Class in Poetry, Part 1, Carnegie Center writing workshop, 251 W. Second St, Lexington, Kentucky
- 11/19/11 : Arranging a Poetry Mansucript, Carnegie Center writing workshop, 251 W. Second St, Lexington, Kentucky
- 02/03/11 : American Creative Writing in the Balkans, AWP Writer's Conference, Washington, DC
- 04/08/10 : Writing in More than one Language: Significance, Opportunities, Challenges, and Audiences, AWP Writer's Conference, Panel R227, 4:30-5:45pm, Room 207 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado
- 02/06/10 : Bigger Than They Appear: How to Write Very Short Poems, Carnegie Center writing workshop, Free, Noon-2:00pm, 251 W. Second St, Lexington, Kentucky
Interviews.
- 02/10/12 : Interview on NPR by WFPL's Graham Shelby. [listen]
- 01/28/12 : Interview on Crescent Hill Radio by Sheri L. Wright. [listen]
- 12/07/11 : Feature about the anthology Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems by Michael Dean Benton in North of Center. [read]
- 08/08/10 : Interview on the TV show One on One with Bill Goodman. [watch]
- 04/04/10 : Feature about Accents Publishing in the Lexington Herald Leader. [read]
- 12/26/09 : Interviewed on Bulgarian National Radio 5pm EST in the arts and culture program “Together After Midnight,” hosted by Alexander Michailov.
- 12/04/09 : Interview on the radio show Art Efir on Hristo Botev Bulgarian National Radio, with host Darina Marinova
- 12/02/09 : Interview on the radio show Afternoon Improvisations on Radio Jazz FM, 2:30pm EET with host Tanya Ivanova
- 12/02/09 : Interview on the radio show The Words on Darik National Radio, 11:00am EET with host Nina Ivanova
- 12/02/09 : Interviewed by Karmen Manukian on Horizont Bulgarian National Radio on the show Graffitti Over the Air (in Bulgarian). [visit page] [listen]
- 11/30/09 : Interview with Pavlina Radoslavova on Az Cheta (in Bulgarian). [read]
- 11/13/09 : Interviewed by Valentin Dishev on Radio Blagoevgrad (in Bulgarian). [listen]
- 08/07/09 : Interviewed by Plamena Bachiiska on Horizont Bulgarian National Radio (in Bulgarian). [listen]
- 07/31/09 : Interviewed by Vesselin Maximov on Darik Radio (in Bulgarian). [listen]
Videos.
- Premiere of Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems:
Video 1/5, Video 2/5, Video 3/5, Video 4/5, Video 5/5. - Reluctance
- Often I Wish I Were
- The Apple Who Wanted to Become a Pinecone
- 08/27/09 : Clip from the North American premiere of The Air around the Butterfly (by Z Newell).
- 12/10/09 : Katerina’s TV appearance on the very popular, avant-garde culture program, “Art Traffic” (in Bulgarian). Hear Katerina describe her plans for Accents Publishing – an independent press for brilliant voices. See her read from her book, The Air around the Butterfly. The interview with Katerina is between minutes 20:00 and 23:00 of the video.
Links.
- Accents Publishing - an independent press for brilliant voices
- Katerina's author page on Amazon.com
- Public Republic online journal (English Edition) (German Edition) (Bulgarian Edition)
- Poezia Poetry Group page on Meetup.com
- Poezia Prose Group page on Meetup.com
- Accents radio show fan page on Facebook
- WRFL 88.1 FM Lexington, Kentucky
- Spalding University MFA in Writing