Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio Poet Laureate, focuses on lifting up underrepresented voices including incarcerated adults and women in recovery. Her collection Alone in the House of My Heart was selected for ABF's "Best Book Award" and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award. She is the founder/executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series Women Speak. Her work has been featured on Poem of the Week, World Literature Today, The New York Times and Poem-a-Day.

Other poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour in Verse Daily:
March 19, 2023:   "Bobcat" "Sleepless, I huddled in a rocker..."
October 30, 2020:   "Night Moves" "We leave out..."
July 1, 2020:   "I Come From A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be Seen" "White oaks thrash, moonlight drifts..."

Other poems on the web by Kari Gunter-Seymour:
Three poems
"Tonight the Air"
Two poems
Four poems
"Our Grandmother"
"The Weeds In This Garden"
"Illumination"
"Badasses"

Kari Gunter-Seymour's Website.

Kari Gunter-Seymour on Twitter.

About Dirt Songs:

"'Those last afternoons we walked the tracks hand in hand, / making up songs, going nowhere.' These final lines of 'Photo 1985' are two of many that will haunt me long after reading Kari Gunter-Seymour's new book, a collection alive with lust, music, lost boys, lost dogs, food pantries, divorce, deployment, booze, birds, and love for a land buzzing with abundance. I admire the swagger and wisdom of this voice and the raw tenderness with which the poet greets her subjects, here and gone, present and past. A celebration and a dirge, Dirt Songs is a moving tribute to a place and its people."
—Kathy Fagan