Poetry, Community, Power: Kari Gunter-Seymour and Kristi Stephens Walker

How does poetry help both writers and readers heal, and how does it build community? Ohio's poet laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour, stops by with fellow Women of Appalachia Project member Kristi Stephens Walker to talk about how essential poetry is. Find Kari at https://www.karigunterseymourpoet.com/. And the Women of Appalachia at https://www.womenofappalachia.com/about. Kristi shared with us a list of Barbara Kingsolver's recommendations for Appalachia-related reading—which has generated a great deal of feeling! Find it at the New York Times. Episode image: Henri-Jean Guilliame Martin, "Poetesses on a Lake Shore" (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Want to find out more about the books we talked about on the show? Here's a list! You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon! Roy Bentley                             My Mother's Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986–2020 Svetlana Boym                        Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet Susanna Connelly Holstein, Cheryl Denise, Kirk Judd, and Sherrell Runnion Wigal     Porch Poems Boubacar Boris Diop                Murambi, The Book of Bones Ellis Elliott                                Break in the Field Barbara Kingsolver                  Demon Copperhead Kinsgsolver reading list (Kristi!)             Geert Mak                                In Europe: Travels Throuogh the Twentieth Century Linda Parsons                          Valediction: Poems and Prose Catherine Pritchard Childress  Outside the Frame Jamie Quatro                           Fire Sermon Jamie Quatro                           I Want to Show You More Margaret Renkl                        Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss Shawna Kay Rodenberg         Kin: A Memoir Paul Seabright                        The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri           Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Easter and Southern Africa