poet laureate

Governor Mike DeWine has picked Kari Gunter-Seymour to be Ohio’s new poet laureate. In the middle of a pandemic and nationwide protests, Kari Gunter...

Clevelander Dave Lucas was named the second Ohio Poet Laureate suceeding Dr. Amit Majmudar for a two year term. Best known for his monthly Brews + Proseseries at Market Garden Brewery, Lucas wants folks in the Buckeye state to change their reactions to reading poems. "I grew up as I think a lot of people did, certainly many of my students feel this way, that poetry was what we encountered in the books that we had to read in school and that made us often feel stupid or inadequate," Lucas said.