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Chris Mattingly is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. His poems have appeared in public-Republic, Margie: The Journal of American Poetry, Moonshot, The Louisville Review, and the forthcoming chapbook Ad Hoc from Q Avenue Press. Chris is also a banjo player and long time member [...]

Jody Lisberger’s story collection, Remember Love, was published by Fleur-de-Lis Press in May 2008. Her stories have appeared in Fugue, Michigan Quarterly Review, Thema, Confrontation, and The Louisville Review. She has a PhD in English and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. She has taught literature, writing, and feminist theory [...]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s interview with poet Sheri Wright

Sheri L. Wright is the author of four books of poetry, Sharks Never Sleep, Nuns Shooting Guns, Contains Scenes of Indigenous Nudity and The Courtship of Reason, (2010). Her work has been published in journals across the country, including Out of Line, Clarke Street Review and Earth’s Daughters. She [...]

We are happy to share that Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s new poetry collection, “The Most” (Finishing Line Press) is available for pre-publication purchase at www.finishinglinepress.com. Availability date is March 5th.

Publishing House Fakel Express invites you to the premiere of the poetry book Въздухът Около Пеперудата / The Air Around The Butterfly
by Katerina Stoykova
4 December (Friday) at 6:00PM, Rakursi Art Galley, Han Krum Street 4a (behind the City Library), Sofia, Bulgaria

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

The Spare Tire
is constantly afraid
that one day
it will be his turn
to start carrying the weight
of the car
in which
he has been riding.
Once
a while back
he whispered his fears
to the windshield wipers
but in silent judgment
they just shook their heads.

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Снимка: jsome1
Often I Wish I Were
a potato.
Eyes opened
in all directions.
Unafraid
of the cold earth.
The difference
between life and death
for somebody.

You are cordially invited to the North American Premiere of The Air around the Butterfly / Въздухът около пеперудата. Katerina Stoykova-Klemer will read poems in English and Bulgarian, answer questions, and sign books. Refreshments will be provided.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
251 West Second Street
Lexington, KY
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s first book, The [...]

Ivan Hristov

Photo: Cane Ludico Rosso
For Vladimir Levchev
And we were sitting
there somewhere
in our little
country,
in our little
neighborhood,
in our
apartment building.
We were sitting silently
and drinking.
And then
we talked.

Richard Luftig

Photo: byrion
In late November,
the bank of autumn closes
its doors for the year, calls
in outstanding loans, issues
certificates of deposit
not redeemable until May
and bearing no interest
in our survival. Love falls

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This Friday, 4/17/09, on Accents, a radio show for literature, art and culture, you will hear the following:
Writing prompt of the week – Water:
From Kentucky, poetry by Sara Cavitt
From Bulgaria, poetry by Bozhana Apostolova
From Germany, poetry by Petja Heinrich
Interview:
Poet and farmer Jim Lally and artist and farmer Jennifer Gleason

Interview with Pat Valdata by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Pat Valdata writes novels, poems and nonfiction. Her publications include the novels The Other Sister (published by Plain View Press, 2008), Crosswind (published by Wind Canyon Publishing, 1997) and the poetry chapbook Looking for Bivalve (from Pecan Grove Press, 2002).
Pat received an MFA in writing from Goddard College and [...]

Interview with Matt Urmy by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Matt Urmy is a Storyteller, a Poet, and a Musician. He has recorded and released four independent records. He has also published one collection of poems,Ghosts In A House, with Finishing Line Press. This collection was published in his first term of graduate study at Spalding University [...]

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Starting January 23, 2009, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer will host “Accents” – a new radio show for Literature, Art and Culture on WRFL, 88.1 FM, Lexington. The show will take place every Friday 2-3pm EST.
Everyone can listen to the show online by visiting http://wrfl.fm/, then clicking on “Listen Now.”
If you have ideas about guests, topics [...]

Interview with Blaga Dimitrova’s Poetry by Farideh Hassanzadeh-Mostafavi

Farideh Hassanzadeh (Mostafavi), an Iranian poet, has translated poems by Blaga Dimitrova into Farsi. She wrote to Dimitrova and asked for an interview. The great poet was in her last days and could only send her books. Farideh decided to arrange an interview with the poetry of her [...]

Interview with Richard Goodman by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Richard Goodman is the author of The Soul of Creative Writing and French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. He has written on a variety of subjects for many national publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, Commonweal, Vanity Fair, Garden [...]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Photo: RatRanch
Scientific articles typically fall into one of two categories. They are either pseudo-scientific pieces that, in order to be accessible to the general reader, have been uncomplicated to the point that the scientific value has been diminished; or, they are dense with information and specific terminology, but unreadable by all but those who [...]

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On the 21st of October, 2008, we celebrate two years since the launch of the Bulgarian edition of Public Republic. Here is what a few of our readers and authors have to say about this significant milestone: