An Author Event featuring Kari Gunter-Seymour

517 Union Avenue,Knoxville TN 37902

13 May, 2023

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Union Ave Books is proud to present an author event with Kari Gunter-Seymour & her newest collection, Alone in the House of My Heart. This event will take place on May 13, 2023 at 6 pm. While this is a free event, we ask that you register for your spot. About the Author: Kari Gunter-Seymour is the Poet Laureate of Ohio, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and author of Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press), A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen (Sheila Na Gig Editions), and Dirt Songs (forthcoming, EastOver Press 2024). She is an artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts, a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, the founder/executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series Women Speak. Her work has been featured in Verse Daily, World Literature Today, The New York Times and Poem-a-Day. www.karigunterseymourpoet.com About the Book: A breathtaking, artful set of poems on loss, family, place, and memory. -Kirkus (Starred Review) We reckon that nine generations in Appalachia is long enough for a place to get in the bones of a family, and that kinheritance has marked Kari Gunter-Seymour with an intuitive feel for one of America’s most isolated and peculiar regions. - Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews These poems are delicately nuanced and so hard-edged, so unique, they can make you catch your breath. - Hephzibah Roskelly, World Literature Today Gunter-Seymour’s talent shines like a diamond in this collection: solid, clear, sparkling. - Donna Meredith, Southern Literary Review Deeply rooted in respect and compassion for Appalachia and its people, these poems are both paeans to and dirges for past and present family, farmlands, factories, and coal. Kari Gunter-Seymour’s second full-length collection resounds with candid, lyrical poems about Appalachia’s social and geographical afflictions and affirmations. History, culture, and community shape the physical and personal landscapes of Gunter-Seymour’s native southeastern Ohio soil, scarred by Big Coal and fracking, while food insecurity and Big Pharma leave their marks on the region’s people. A musicality of language swaddles each poem in hope and a determination to endure. Alone in the House of My Heart offers what only art can: a series of thought-provoking images that evoke such a clear sense of place that it’s familiar to anyone, regardless of where they call home.