Kari Gunter-Seymour’s fourth full-length poetry collection, All That Teethes Within (University Press of Kentucky, 2026), grapples with death in many forms and is a journey to be savored and held as you meander along with the speakers of these poems who meet each moment with compassion and honesty. For a book about death, there is […]
“Dirt Songs” by Kari Gunter-Seymour
May 15, 2024 by 1 Comment
In Dirt Songs (Eastover Press 2024), Kari Gunter-Seymour proves she is at the top of her game by evoking both the wild energy and lustful passion of youth and the regrets such indulgences oft engender later in life. Other poems in the collection beautifully capture the natural world of Appalachia through precise language and fresh […]
“Alone in the House of My Heart” by Kari Gunter-Seymour
October 5, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press, 2022) is a rich and varied collection of poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio Poet Laureate and founder/executive director of the “Women of Appalachia Project,” an arts organization she created to address discrimination directed at women from the Appalachian region. Divided in to five sections, […]
“A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen,” by Kari Gunter-Seymour
October 6, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Donna Meredith One minute it soars. The next it dives. It drives tacks into your heart and then warms your feet like a cozy pair of socks. The language and imagery in Kari Gunter-Seymour’s poetry collection, A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen, is all that we expect from a […]