Speaking With Athens' Poet Laureate: Kari Gunter-Seymour by WOUB Digital published on 2018-06-19T19:41:31Z Poetry came into Kari Gunter-Seymour's life as a way to deal the enormous spiritual and emotional heft of having a son serving on military deployment, and some years and many publications later, she has been selected as the poet laureate for Athens, OH. WOUB's Emily Votaw spoke with Gunter-Seymour about the nature of poetry in the modern age, what it means to be a poet laureate in 2018, and what her future hopes for poetry in the region are.
