Sinclair Community College Hosting Poetry Event with Kari Gunter-Seymour, Poet Laureate of Ohio

The Sinclair Community College Appalachian Outreach Department will host Poet Laureate of Ohio Kari Gunter-Seymour on Monday, April 22, 2024, for a special poetry reading and meet and greet event with aspiring writers and poets. The event is free and open to the public from 11:00 a.m. to noon in the Sinclair Community College Loggia inside Building 7 at the Dayton campus. 

Free parking is available in the student parking garage. For more information, contact Nora Stanger, Coordinator Appalachian Outreach, nora.stanger@sinclair.edu. 

Sinclair’s Appalachian Outreach Department collaborates with college and community partners to provide programs and services that help eliminate educational and social barriers, champion the benefits of post-secondary education and life-skills training, and promote Appalachian cultural awareness at Sinclair and in the community. Learn more at Sinclair.edu/Appalachian.

About Kari Gunter-Seymour – Poet Laureate of Ohio

Kari Gunter-Seymour is the Poet Laureate of Ohio. Her poetry collections include Dirt Songs (EastOver Press, 2024) Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press, 2022), winner of the "2023 ABF "Best Book Award" for narrative poetry and finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award; 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 through an Academy of American Poets Fellowship Grant and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and winner of the 2023 ABF Poetry Anthology "Best Book Award". She is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of it’s anthology series, Women Speak. Gunter-Seymour holds writing workshops for incarcerated adults and women in recovery. She is a retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University; the founder, curator, and host of "Spoken & Heard," a seasonal performance series featuring poets, writers, and musicians from across the country. She was selected to serve as a 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival Poet and is an artist in residence for the Writing the Land Project and a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio. 

For more information about Kari Gunter-Seymour, visit KariGunterSeymourPoet.com.

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