Kari Gunter-Seymour: All That Teethes Within – in Conversation with Sharon Perkins Ackerman
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Join us for an evening with Kari Gunter-Seymour, who will read from her new poetry collection, All That Teethes Within. A conversation with Sharon Perkins Ackerman will follow. This in-person event will be cosponsored by WriterHouse and will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.
About the Book: In All That Teethes Within, poet Kari Gunter-Seymour translates the poignant complexity of loss into words. This exploration of heartache is layered with the poet’s Appalachian identity and overflows with sadness and anger toward the forces that cause societal and environmental damage in the region. The poems mourn a loved one’s sudden passing, opportunity missed due to poverty or gender inequality, and the piece of one’s identity that vanishes or fades with age.
Gunter-Seymour’s interrogation of grief and destruction quietly weaves in elements of nature—“Breezes whistle like wisps of memory / inside clusters of hemlock”—to counter profound pain. Small joys found in friendship, the land, grandchildren, and wildlife round out this collection. All That Teethes Within reckons with the incomprehensible reality of a sibling’s suicide, serving as a guide for survival and a call to speak the truth of our anguish and our rapture.
About the Author: Kari Gunter-Seymour is the immediate past poet laureate of Ohio and a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship Award, IPPY Bronze Award, NYC Big Book Award, National Federation of Press Women Award, and Feathered Quill Book Award. She is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series, Women Speak. 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. Her work has been featured in a variety of journals and publications such as American Book Review, Poem-a-Day, World Literature Today, Katie Couric’s Wake-Up Call, and The New York Times.
About the Moderator: Sharon Perkins Ackerman is poetry coeditor for Streetlight Magazine. Her poems appear in Southern Humanities Review, Atlanta Review, Meridian, Appalachian Places, Kestrel, Broad River Review, and others. She is the winner of the international Hippocrates Poetry in Medicine Prize (2019), and her book A Legacy of Birds was shortlisted for the Arthur Smith prize (2025). Her most recent collection, Sweeping the Porch (Pine Row Press, 2026), is available through New Dominion Bookshop. Sharon lives outside Charlottesville and is Appalachian via her robust root system in Perry County, Kentucky.
About the Book: In All That Teethes Within, poet Kari Gunter-Seymour translates the poignant complexity of loss into words. This exploration of heartache is layered with the poet’s Appalachian identity and overflows with sadness and anger toward the forces that cause societal and environmental damage in the region. The poems mourn a loved one’s sudden passing, opportunity missed due to poverty or gender inequality, and the piece of one’s identity that vanishes or fades with age.
Gunter-Seymour’s interrogation of grief and destruction quietly weaves in elements of nature—“Breezes whistle like wisps of memory / inside clusters of hemlock”—to counter profound pain. Small joys found in friendship, the land, grandchildren, and wildlife round out this collection. All That Teethes Within reckons with the incomprehensible reality of a sibling’s suicide, serving as a guide for survival and a call to speak the truth of our anguish and our rapture.
About the Author: Kari Gunter-Seymour is the immediate past poet laureate of Ohio and a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship Award, IPPY Bronze Award, NYC Big Book Award, National Federation of Press Women Award, and Feathered Quill Book Award. She is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series, Women Speak. 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. Her work has been featured in a variety of journals and publications such as American Book Review, Poem-a-Day, World Literature Today, Katie Couric’s Wake-Up Call, and The New York Times.
About the Moderator: Sharon Perkins Ackerman is poetry coeditor for Streetlight Magazine. Her poems appear in Southern Humanities Review, Atlanta Review, Meridian, Appalachian Places, Kestrel, Broad River Review, and others. She is the winner of the international Hippocrates Poetry in Medicine Prize (2019), and her book A Legacy of Birds was shortlisted for the Arthur Smith prize (2025). Her most recent collection, Sweeping the Porch (Pine Row Press, 2026), is available through New Dominion Bookshop. Sharon lives outside Charlottesville and is Appalachian via her robust root system in Perry County, Kentucky.
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New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E Main St,Charlottesville,VA,United States
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