Katerina Stoykova
Bulgarian-born bilingual poet and author of "Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House" (University Press of Kentucky, 2024); founder and Senior Editor of Accents Publishing in Lexington, KY, and host of the Accents podcast on WUKY.
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Oct 15, 2026
David MillerCORRESPONDENT
Either in Kentucky or the other places you've lived, who was the first person or first people that made you feel welcome if they did? What did they say to you?
Katerina StoykovaGUEST
Oh, I remember what happened the first time when somebody's hospitality made a real difference for me.
Katerina StoykovaGUEST
And over the years, for like 25 years, I tried to write a good poem about it and I...
Katerina StoykovaGUEST
Well, we keep on writing poems and then we accumulate a body of work and what do we do after that? We have a pile of poems.
Katerina StoykovaGUEST
We need to figure out, we need to take the time to figure out what are the themes and the topics inside these piles.
Katerina StoykovaGUEST
And that is one way that we can quickly see what we have been writing about.
Katerina StoykovaGUEST
Because it is very unlikely that we have been writing about just one thing.
Katerina StoykovaGUEST
So what I recommend for people to do is to actually print everything physically, to have physical paper.
Katerina StoykovaGUEST
I think it's very difficult to do this work without having it actually printed.
14 MINS LATER
Daniel LiquizHOST
What strategies do you share that feel authentic and manageable? Miss Katerina.