Public Events
PUBLIC EVENTS 2026
August 5 2026–7:00PM
Poetry at the Table
Featured Reader
Kenswick Table
201 Owsley Avenue
Lexington, Kentucky, 40502
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August 14 2026–11:00AM
Licking County Foundation
Partner Celebration
Commemorative Poem Reading
30 N Second St
Newark, OH 43058-4212
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August 30 2026–11:00AM
Appalachian Arts & Literary Festival
Women Speak Reading
Main Stage -Downtown
Moorehead KY
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September 14 2026–06:00 PM
Mercantile Library
Book Launch
"ALL THAT TEETHES WITHIN"
414 Walnut Street, 11th Floor
Cincinnati, OH 45202
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September 17, 2026–07:00 PM
Spoken & Heard
VIRTUAL
LINK TO COME
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September 20-26 2026–All Day
Porches Retreat
56 Pine Hill Lane
Norwood, VA 24581
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September 26 2026–7PM
New Dominion Bookstore
Book Launch
"ALL THAT TEETHES WITHIN"
in conversation with Sharon Ackerman
404 E Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
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October 5, 2026–07:00 PM
West Liberty University
READING
208 University Drive
West Liberty, WV 26074
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October 15, 2026–07:00 PM
Spoken & Heard
VIRTUAL
LINK TO COME
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October 25, 2026–06:00 PM
Word of Mouth Cincinnati
Featured Reader
MOTR Pub
1345 Main Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
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October 28, 2026–06:30 PM
Bexley Public Library
Book Launch
"ALL THAT TEETHES WITHIN"
in conversation with Fred Andrle
2411 E Main Street
Columbus, OH 43209
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November 7, 2026–01:00 PM
Carksburg-Harrison Library
Women Speak Reading
404 W Pike St, Clarksburg, WV 26301
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November 8, 2026–01:00 PM
Poet Roar’s Feminists
Retellings & Explorations Gathering
VIRTUAL
Link To Come
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November 19, 2026–07:00 PM
Spoken & Heard
VIRTUAL
LINK TO COME
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November 21, 2026–02:00 PM
Athens Armory
"ALL THAT TEETHES WITHIN"
with Stephanie Kendrick
1 Armory Street
Athens Ohio 45701
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December 12, 2026–02:00 PM
Taylor Books Reading
w/Natalie Sypolt
226 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301
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May1, 2027–02:00 PM
Riffe Gallery
Exhibition : Playing Well Together
Fine Art & Poetry
77 S High St,
Columbus, OH 43215
PAST HIGHLIGHTS
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May 3 2026–01:00 PM
35th Anniversary Spring Concert
POEM "SPRING IN THE HOLLOW"
Adapted for Choral Performance
Dayton Art Institute
Harry A. Shaw Gothic Cloister
456 Belmont Park North
Dayton OH 45405
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April 7-10 2026
Western Reserve Academy
Word Count Literary Festival
Featured Poet
with Dave Lucas, Mary Biddinger, Seth Borgen
115 College Street
Hudson, OH 44236
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March 4-7, 2026
AWP Conference
PANEL: March 5 - 1:45-3:00PM
Holding a Space for Appalachian
Stories in the Efficiency Era
Room 318-319, Level 300
Baltimore Convention Center
1 W Pratt Street
Baltimore MD 21201
Session Code: T187
OFFSITE READING: March 5, 5:30-7:30PM
Poets for Science Reading
Maryland Science Center
Harbor Atrium
601 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
OFFSITE READING: March 5, 6:00-8:00PM
SHEILA NA GIG
Delia Foley's Pub
1439 S Charles St,
Baltimore, MD 21230
OFFSITE READING: March 6, 5-7PM
Bracken Magazine
Mystique Barrel Brewing and Lager House
206 W Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(Across from the Baltimore Convention Center)
OFFSITE READING: March 7, 7-9PM
Salvation South
Pratt Street Ale House
912 Washington Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21230
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March 19-22, 2026
Appalachian Studies Association Conference
Marshall University
Huntington, WV
Friday: 1:30 pm-2:45 pm
PERFORMANCE: “Had I a Dove”
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Friday: 3:00 pm-4:15 pm
PERFORMANCE: “Appalachian Journal”
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Friday: 4:30 pm-5:45 pm
PERFORMANCE: “Women Speak”
WOMEN OF APPALACHIA PROJECT
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Saturday: 9:30 am-10:45 am
PANEL: “Holding a Space for Appalachian
Voices in the Efficiency Era”
Neema Avashia, Kari Gunter-Seymour,
Natalie Sypolt, Laura Leigh Morris,
Amy Le Ann Richardson
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Saturday: 11:00 pm - 12:15 pm
PANEL: Hill Writers Collective
Jim Minick, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Matthew Parsons
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Saturday: 2:30 pm-3:45 pm
PERFORMANCE: “UNTELLING,” PART 3
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July 20-26, 2025, Daily
Hindman Settlement School
Week-long Writer's Workshop
Workshop Instructor
51 Center St
Hindman, KY 41822
April 16, 2025, 7PM EST
A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series
Marshall University
One John Marshall Drive
Huntington, WV 25755
April 9, 2025, 11AM EST
Red Branch Arts Festival
Carson-Newman University,
1646 Russell Ave
Jefferson City, TN 37760
February 20-26, 2025
ARTWAY INC. HAVANA BIENAL DE LA HABANA
A week long arts cultural exchange
Havana, Cuba
June 27, 2024-5-8PM
National Endowment for the Arts Townhall
Stuart’s Opera House
Nelsonville OH
June 28, 2024-1PM
National Endowment for the Arts
National Council on the Arts
Lincoln Theatre
Columbus, OH
January 9, 2023 12-2PM
Governor Mike DeWine Inauguration
Inaugural Poem
Ohio Statehouse
1 Capitol Square
Columbus, OH 4321
October 18, 2023 2PM
Ohio University Incoming President’s
READING OF COMMISSIONED POEM
Inauguration and Investiture
Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium
Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701
November 16, 2024, 7-9PM
Foundation for Appalachian Ohio
25th Anniversary Celebration
Commisioned Poem
Ohio Statehouse
Columbus, OH 43206
November 2, 2024,2-4PM
“All We Cannot Forget”
Opening Reception
MIXED MEDIA: FINE ART & POETRY
Riffe Gallery
77 S High Street
Columbus, OH 43215
November 7, 2024,2-4PM
“All We Cannot Forget”
Ekphastic Writers Workshop
Riffe Gallery
77 S High Street
Columbus, OH 43215
October 22, 2025, 7PM EST
Gramercy Books
“An Evening With Ohio’s Laureates”
2424 E Main Street
Bexley, OH 43209
February 1, 2023, 7PM
Gramercy Books
Poetry and Conversation with David Baker
2424 E Main Street
Bexley, OH 43209
RATTLECAST: With Robert Pinsky
Secondary Guest: Kari Gunter-Seymour
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook
October 20-23, 2022
Dodge Poetry Festival - 4 Day Event
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
1 Center St,
Newark, NJ 07102
November 10, 2020, 7PM
Filson Historical Society, 6PM
4850 Brownsboro Center
Louisville, Kentucky 40207
Virtual Reading
December 3, 2020, 7PM
Don't Cry for me J.D.Vance
Virtual Reading in response to Hillbilly Elegy
Sponsors:
Downbound Books,
West Virginia University Press,
Urban Appalachian Community Coalition
Virtual Reading
March 19-20, 2021, 7-10PM
Power of Poetry Festival
Guests: Billy Collins, Naomi Shihab Nye,
Ellen Bass, Alison Luterman, Luis Rodriguez,
David Lee, Kari Gunter-Seymour
Virtual event
April 21, 2021, 7-9PM
West Liberty University Hughes Lecture Series
Featured Reader
Virtual event
November 11, 2021, 7PM
Literary Club of Cincinnati
VETERANS DAY READING
500 E 4th St
Cincinnati, OH 45202
March 23-25, 2022
AWP Conference
Panelist - How to Create a Successful Anthology
Friday, March 25, 2022
Scheduled Time: 12:10 PM–1:25 PM ET
Scheduled Room: 115AB
Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19107
June 9-10 2022,
Lakeside Chautauqua
Educational Speaker, Thursday, 7PM
Workshop Instructor, Friday, 10:30AM
Lakeside Chautauqua
236 Walnut Ave.
Lakeside, OH 43440
September 29, 2022, 2-3:30pm
Appalachian Heritage Writers Master Class
w/Barbara Kingsolver
Shepherd University Byrd CHE
North King St, Shepherdstown, WV 25443
ALSO VIRTUAL: https://www.shepherd.edu/ahwirweb/kingsolver/schedule
September 29, 2022, 7-9pm
Lenoir-Rhyne University Visiting Writers Series
Belk Centrum
Lenoir-Rhyne University
Hickory, NC 28603
March 1, 2023, 11:30AM
Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton
Celebrating Self Speaker Series
101 S Monument Ave
Hamilton, OH 45011
June 19, 2023
Lakeside Chautauqua
Reading 7PM
Workshop, 10:30 AM
Lakeside Chautauqua
236 Walnut Ave.
Lakeside, OH 43440
August 23, 2023 6pm
Thurber House
Summer Literary Picnic
77 Jefferson Avenue
Columbus, OH
November 18, 2023 11AM-1:30 PM
National Council of Teachers of English Conference
FEATURED POET
Greater Columbus Convention Center,
400 N. High Street
Columbus OH 43215
Booth 814
January 26, 2024-7PM
Wild & Precious Life Series
FEATURED READER
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8756439442
July 14, 2024-8PM EST
Rattlecast
Rattle Magazine Online
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter
Livestream
September 17, 2024-6-8PM EST
OneArt Virtual Workshop Series
Writers Workshop
VIRTUAL
https://oneartpoetry.com/workshops/
September 28, 2024-12-4PM EST
The Poetry Festival
Workshop: Writing Our Self-portraits
Reading: Where I Come From
We Pronounce it Ap-A-Lach-A!
Columbus Museum of Art
480 E Broad St,
Columbus, OH 43215
