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By Michelle Alfini Athens
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ATHENS, Ohio In her home office, overlooking the rolling hills outside her home, Ohio’s poet laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour, is never far from the people and places that inspire her.
Just feet away is a case, containing tokens of her family history, her grandparents’ marriage license, a faded photo of her mother surrounded by aunts and uncles, and on the floor next door are the baskets she weaved on their farm back in the days she wondered what kind of woman she’d become.
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Kari Gunter-Seymour is Poet Laureate of Ohio through 2021
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