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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 the many aspects of Appalachian culture, including identity, the impact of poverty, generational afflictions, and the brunt of mainstream America's skewed regard for the region. Readers will discover a musicality of language, ...

The Women of Appalachia Project¿ encourages participation from women of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, inviting submissions of spoken word and fine art, shared in public forums and annual anthologies. Artists share culture and experiences at arranged venues, embrace issues of marginalization and stereotype, creating a force, unified and non-violently confrontational, to show the whole women, beyond superficial fact...

With poems that are as complicated, breathtaking, and ravaged as Ohio¿s southeastern foothills, state poet laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour shares an insider¿s appreciation for Appalachiäs hard-worked land and hardworking people, who persevere with honor, humility, and courage through multigenerational struggles.

I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing" - Ohio's Appalachian Voices is an anthology focused on the unique culture of Ohio's Appalachian population. A one-of-a-kind collection, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Editor Kari Gunter-Seymour writes: "Within these pages you will find a lavish mix of voices-Affrilachian, Indigenous, non-binary and LGBTQ, from teens to those creatively aging, poets in recovery, som...

The Women of Appalachia Project¿ was created to address discrimination directed at women from the Appalachian region by encouraging participation from women artists of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, to embrace the stereotype, to show the whole woman, beyond the superficial factors that people use to judge her. ¿Despite the educational and economic inequalities in Appalachia, despite the lack of adequate healthcar...

The Women of Appalachia Project(TM) was created to address discrimination directed at women from the Appalachian region by encouraging participation from women artists of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, to embrace the stereotype, to show the whole woman, beyond the superficial factors that people use to judge her.Despite the educational and economic inequalities in Appalachia, despite the lack of adequate healthcare...

In a time of inflated posturing and relentless self-promotion, Kari Gunter-Seymour's poems offer quiet intensity. Her work provides a refuge where one's curiosity, intelligence, and awareness of the complexities of contemporary Appalachian female culture and the struggle to hold on to "old ways" while embracing the new, take shape. The work is firmly and unapologetically attached to the poet's home soil.More than merely commenting, Gunter-Seym...

Appalachia holds a multitude of identities and experiences, and the Women of Appalachia Project's(TM) Women Speak anthology speaks to the complexity of the region. The essays, poems, stories, fine art, and songs collected here bear witness to the lived experiences of Appalachian women while simultaneously speaking against the narratives dictated to us and about us: acts of God, the notion of what makes a good girl, where and how and when we de...

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