It is difficult

to get the news from poems

      yet men die miserably every day

                                         for lack

of what is found there.

      –William Carlos Williams

                                         “Asphodel that Greeny Flower”

Poetry is news that stays new, Ezra Pound said. What is it of our own lives that will stay new? How do we give voice to this moment in time? It is not so much the what as it is the how of our poems—the line and its mystery, our images and diction, the unexpected metaphor—that cause poems to remain fresh. In this session, we will consider how poems convey both the timely and the timeless. Using prompts, we will explore how we might craft poems that stay new, poems to surprise a future reader with a sense of our particular time.

This seminar is part of the Accents Originals Series held in partnership with Accents Publishing.

Please note that registration is exclusively through Accents Publishing; the registration link will take you to their page. No discounts specific to the Carnegie Center apply to this special series of seminars.

Leatha Kendrick’s poetry, essays, and articles appear in journals and anthologies, including the Red Branch Review, Good River Review, Kansas City Review, Appalachian Journal, the Anthology of Appalachian Writers (Volume XVII); The Southern Poetry Anthology (Volume 3); and What Comes Down to Us – Twenty-Five Contemporary Kentucky Poets. In 2025, Kendrick  was awarded the 10th annual JudyGaines Young Award by Transylvania University, “recognizing exceptional works of Appalachian writers.” And Luckier, from Accents Publishing (2020), is her fifth collection of poems.