Our pal Elijah Burrell has a new book of poetry out now via EastOver Press 💫

Here he is in conversation with our other pal Sadie Shorr-Parks 🤝 southwestreview.com/breaking-the-q…

Laura Linart called Elijah Burrell's Skies of Blur 'a moving assemblage that evokes midlife’s unique anxieties and challenges while employing deadpan humor and a superior musical score.' Read her review on Open Space northamericanreview.org/open-space/rev… EastOver Press

Join me and these fabulous women poets for a panel discussion at the Ohioana Book Festival—Celebrating ​Women in Appalachian Poetry! #ohiopoetlaureate #appalachialwomenrock #appalachianpoetry Ohioana Library EastOver Press

Thank you to Kendra D. Winchester for inviting me to take part in her amazing podcast series Read Appalachia. I’m beyond words. I hope you’ll have a listen! #ohiopoetlaureate EastOver Press

✨NEW EPISODE!✨

In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra D. Winchester is joined by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour. Have a listen! 🎧

readappalachia.com/blog/ep-23-poe…

Congratulations to our editor Denton Loving, whose latest collections of poems, TAMP (@MUPress, 2023), was named a finalist in the Weatherford Awards! 🤩

Check it out: bit.ly/3THLnDu

So spectacular to read Kari Gunter-Seymour's sit down with Renee H. Shea of American Book Review! They dove into all about what led to Kari being Ohio Poet Laureate.😍
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Check it out: bit.ly/3TL2YuA
Kari Gunter-Seymour

Congratulations to George Singleton for ASIDES being naming a finalist in @ForewardReviews' 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Award for Essays! 🤩🤩🤩 That's so amazing!
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Check it out: bit.ly/43mQkF6

Our first all flash CNF issue is live!!!

Issue 4.05 features pieces by...
Matt Kelley, “Will You Please Allow Me to Apologize, Please?”
Jennifer D. Munro, “Thank You All for Your Helpful Opinions.”
And @korywells,“I Felt All Flushed with Fever.”

Read: bit.ly/3IxB92g

“WE COULD'VE BEEN HAPPY HERE is a real achievement, a book that won’t let you go and you’re all the better for it.”
—Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This

Order Keith Pilapil Lesmeister's WE COULD'VE BEEN HAPPY HERE (2nd Edition): bit.ly/49U72OG

In a new review, Matt W. Miller’s (Matt W Miller) traces the contours of Ralph Sneeden’s “The Legible Element,” a memoir-in-essays that sees Sneeden muse on the natural world and its relationship with humanity.

Read Online:
thecommononline.org/review-through…

Beyond words honored! DIRT SONGS featured in the American Book Review! Thank you to Renee Shea and all the good folks at ABR. Read the review here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article… #ohiopoetlaureate EastOver Press

TOMORROW at 7pm EST you can hear from INTIMACIES IN BORROWED LIGHT author dariusantwan for the Spoken & Heard virtual reading series by @dairybarnarts!

The series hosted by fellow EastOver author of DIRT SONGS, Kari Gunter-Seymour!

Register here: bit.ly/3TyLUrx

'In these poems, I saw people I’ve been, and people I might have been, if I had chosen a different path.'

Fabulous to see this wonderful review of Kari Gunter-Seymour's recently released DIRT SONGS by @JessicaManack in @merliterary! Read the full review here: bit.ly/3wTdMh5

Thrilled to be an EastOver Press poet! If you have the means, please consider ordering my new collection at bit.ly/4a9qM0v #ohiopoetlaureate

Congrats to Elijah Burrell on his recent release of his poetry collection, SKIES OF BLUR, this February through EastOver Press!⠀
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Read more from Elijah in Issue 22 of Cutleaf!
Order a copy of SKIES OF BLUR here: bit.ly/4307vMx

Great to see Ralph Sneeden's debut essay collection, THE LEGIBLE ELEMENT, reviewed so thoughtfully by Matt W. Miller for The Common!

Check it out here: bit.ly/3IxhXSs
Matt W Miller

Congratulations to Khanh Ha, author of ALL THE RIVERS FLOW INTO THE SEA, for winning the Unleash Lit 2024 Book Prize! 🥳
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Learn more about his winning historical fiction book, AN ARTIST'S LEGACY, here: bit.ly/3uToOlX

Khanh Ha @editorsunleash

Want to hear some wonderful words straight from our authors?

Today, Elijah Burrell reads his poem 'Mr. Night' from his recently released collection, SKIES OF BLUR, for us! 😍

Check out all the fantastic poetry in SKIES OF BLUR by ordering your copy now: bit.ly/430KwkB