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Three times a pushcart nominee, Kari Gunter-Seymour’s chapbook Serving (Crisis Chronicles Press 2018) was recently nominated for an Ohioana Award. Her work is included in the 2019 Visible Poetry Project and won top honors from Still: The Journal, BlackBerry Peach and the Hocking Hills Poetry Festival poetry contests. Her poems can be found in many fine journals – Rattle, Crab Orchard Review, CALYX, Stirring, Main Street Rag, The LA Times and on her website www.karigunterseymourpoet.com/. She is an instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and Poet Laureate for Athens, OH.
Maggie Smith Author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press) says, “Kari Gunter-Seymour’s poems are so tender, reading them hurts—but it’s a sweet ache, the kind worth enduring. The poems in her chapbook Serving are so much about place—about home—whether Appalachia or Kandahar. As Gunter-Seymour shows us, poem after masterful poem, serving is not only about sacrifice, what those in the military do for our country. Serving is also what we do for one another, for the people we call home, no matter where they are. Athens–and all of Ohio–is so lucky to have Kari Gunter-Seymour.
Maggie Smith Author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press) says, “Kari Gunter-Seymour’s poems are so tender, reading them hurts—but it’s a sweet ache, the kind worth enduring. The poems in her chapbook Serving are so much about place—about home—whether Appalachia or Kandahar. As Gunter-Seymour shows us, poem after masterful poem, serving is not only about sacrifice, what those in the military do for our country. Serving is also what we do for one another, for the people we call home, no matter where they are. Athens–and all of Ohio–is so lucky to have Kari Gunter-Seymour.
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