About this Event
About the Books:
Labor by Cecilia Woloch: Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you a new chapbook by acclaimed poet Cecilia Woloch, LABOR: The Testimony of Ted Gall. An extended poem in linked sections, in the voice of coal miner and activist Ted Gall, LABOR weaves one man’s personal history into the history of work and justice in America.
The Bearable Slant of Light by Lynnell Edwards: The Bearable Slant of Light asks what the burden and gift of madness brings to a family, to our world.
What can we bear and what can we lift when a beloved, when our world, is light-struck and mad? The Bearable Slant of Light documents a web of clinical assessments, medications, the terrible beauties of delusion, and the fragile gifts of darkness. Poems that reach across the history of writers and artists who fought and sometimes lost their own battles against mental illness are set against the urgencies of our anxious world and the intimate struggle of one family.
About the Authors:
Cecilia Woloch is the author of four full-length collections of poems and three chapbooks, the latest of which is Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gall, as well as a novel. Her honors include fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Bernheim Foundation, CEC/ArtsLink International and the Center for International Theatre Development, as well as a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in The Best American Poetry series. Her writing has been published in translation in French, German, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Hebrew and Romanes. Born in Pittsburgh and raised there and in rural Kentucky, she has traveled the world as a teacher and writer for more than thirty years, giving readings, leading workshops at universities and literary conferences, working with children and young people as well as educators, inmates at a Pr*son for the criminally insane, and residents at a shelter for homeless women and their children. Most recently, she’s taught at Sichuan University in China and at the University of Rzeszów
in southeastern Poland. In the summer of 2025, she’ll travel to Ukraine to lead a writing workshop for Ukrainian teachers of English. She is currently based in Los Angeles.
Lynnell Edwards’ collections include: This Great Green Valley (Broadstone Books, 2020), a chapbook of documentary poetry based on revisionist narratives of Kentucky’s pioneer founding in the 18th century. Three additional full-length poetry collections, Covet (2011), The Highwayman’s Wife (2007), and The Farmer’s Daughter (2003), were published by Red Hen Press. A chapbook, Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop, from Accents Publishing (2014), chronicles the work and art of a glass-blowing studio. Her short fiction, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Plume, Another Chicago Magazine, New Madrid, Connecticut Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Awards include a 2007 Al Smith Fellowship and a fellowship at The Hermitage in Sarasota, Florida, for 2020-2021. She currently serves as faculty in poetry and Associate Programs Director for the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University where she is also book reviews editor for the program's literary journal Good River Review. She is a founding member and past president of Louisville Literary Arts and also served on the Kentucky Women Writers Conference Board of Directors. She holds the Ph.D in Rhetoric and Composition as well as the MA with Creative Writing Thesis, both from the University of Louisville. Her work often investigates the deep connections between a people and their place, including the natural, political, and family narratives in its history.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2720 Frankfort Ave, 2720 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 21.03
