Events

Alison facilitates and hosts Well-Versed Words, a free online poetry reading on the second Sunday of the month, at 2:30 p.m. PT/ 5:30 p.m. ET. If you would like to be featured, please message Alison at https://www.facebook.com/Iambicreative or email her at poetrybyalisonhurwitz@gmail.com. 

Our next WVW will be on Sunday, September 13 and will feature poet Kari Gunter Seymour. Kari is the immediate past Poet Laureate of Ohio and recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, IPPY Bronze Award NYC Big Book Award, a National Federation of Press Women Award and Feathered Quill Award. She is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series, Women Speak, finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award. Gunter-Seymour is a retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and the founder, curator, and host of "Spoken & Heard," a seasonal performance series featuring poets, writers, and musicians from across the country. She is the editor of I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, funded through the Academy of American Poets and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She was selected to serve as a 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival Poet and is a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio. Her work has been featured in a variety of journals and publications including World Literature Today, American Book Review, Rattle, Poem-a-Day, Katie Curic’s Wake Up Call, The LA Times and The New York Times.

When: Sep 13, 2026 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

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