{"id":27947,"date":"2025-04-01T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=27947"},"modified":"2025-04-01T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:06:53","slug":"marshalls-visiting-writers-series-to-feature-poet-laureate-of-ohio-kari-gunter-seymour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/marshalls-visiting-writers-series-to-feature-poet-laureate-of-ohio-kari-gunter-seymour\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall\u2019s Visiting Writers Series to feature Poet Laureate of Ohio Kari Gunter-Seymour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University\u2019s A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series hosts its final event of the semester at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the Drinko Library Atrium. The featured writer is Kari Gunter-Seymour, the Poet Laureate of Ohio, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship recipient and a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio. The event is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p>Gunter-Seymour\u2019s award-winning collections include Dirt Songs (EastOver Press, 2024), Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press, 2022), and A Place So Deep Inside America It Can\u2019t Be Seen (Sheila Na Gig Editions, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>She is a ninth-generation Appalachian, the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series, Women Speak. Gunter-Seymour is also a retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and the founder, curator and host of \u201cSpoken &amp; Heard,\u201d a seasonal performance series featuring poets, writers, and musicians from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Verse Daily, World Literature Today, American Book Review and on Poem-a-Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a poet, educator, poet laureate, and community organizer, Kari Gunter-Seymour\u2019s work exists in the necessary intersection of feminist literature, Appalachian studies, and literary activism,\u201d said Dr. Sara Henning, coordinator of the series. \u201cBy hosting this public reading and discussion by Gunter-Seymour among Marshall students and members of the Huntington community, I hope to generate an open dialogue about Appalachian regional and cultural identity, as well as to demonstrate the incredible community work being done in our region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series is presented by Marshall University with support from the Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts and University Libraries.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University\u2019s A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series hosts its final event of the semester at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the Drinko Library Atrium. The featured writer is Kari Gunter-Seymour, the Poet Laureate of Ohio, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship recipient and a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27954,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27947\/revisions\/27954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}