Dirt Songs

By Kari Gunter-Seymour

In her third full-length collection, Dirt Songs, Kari Gunter-Seymour's poems are full-throated, raw, deceptively simple, and rippling with candor, providing readers an insider's lens into the larger questions surrounding th

• Language: English
• Publisher: EastOver Press LLC
• Release date: Feb 6, 2024
• ISBN: 9781958094457

Kari Gunter-Seymour

Kari Gunter-Seymour is the Poet Laureate of Ohio. Her poetry collections include Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press, 2022) and A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be Seen (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2020), winner of the 2020 Ohio Poet of the Year Award. A ninth-generation Appalachian, she is the editor of I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices, funded by the Academy of American Poets and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Women of Appalachia Project's anthology series Women Speak. Gunter-Seymour is a retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University; an artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio. Her work has been featured at About Place Journal, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Verse Daily, World Literature Today, The New York Times, and Poem-a-Day.

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