{"id":10750,"date":"2020-06-15T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10750"},"modified":"2020-06-20T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T01:36:15","slug":"kari-gunter-seymour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/06\/15\/kari-gunter-seymour\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Gunter-Seymour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyso.org\/post\/meet-ohios-new-poet-laureate-kari-gunter-seymour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from WYSO 91.3<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet Ohio&#8217;s New Poet Laureate: Kari Gunter-Seymour&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyso.org\/people\/jason-reynolds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JASON REYNOLDS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Presents Kari Gunter-Seymour\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cq3FmF0vSOU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Mike DeWine has picked Kari Gunter-Seymour to be Ohio\u2019s new poet laureate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the middle of a pandemic and nationwide protests, Kari Gunter-Seymour says poetry is more important than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen we write our truths, we bring things to light and create understanding. And from there we grow and find our way through these things that are so difficult for us right now,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Ohio&#8217;s new poet laureate won\u2019t be resting on her laurels. Gunter-Seymour says she applied for the position because it would allow her to bring poetry to people in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe thing that I want to do the very most is work with teens and adults in recovery because of the healing nature of poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyso.org\/post\/meet-ohios-new-poet-laureate-kari-gunter-seymour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WYSO<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WYSO 91.3 Meet Ohio&#8217;s New Poet Laureate: Kari Gunter-Seymour&nbsp; By\u00a0JASON REYNOLDS Governor Mike DeWine has picked Kari Gunter-Seymour to be Ohio\u2019s new poet laureate. In the middle of a pandemic and nationwide protests, Kari Gunter-Seymour says poetry is more important than ever. \u201cWhen we write our truths, we bring things to light and create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}