BOOK LAUNCH: Darren Demaree

Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-three poetry collections, most recently “So Much More”, (Harbor Editions, November 2024).  He is the recipient of a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and the Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry.  He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system.

Travis Chi Wing Lau (he/him/his) is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College. Alongside his scholarship, he has been published widely in venues of public scholarship and poetry including three chapbooks: The Bone Setter (2019), Paring (2020), and Vagaries (2022). His first full-length poetry collection, What’s Left Is Tender, is forthcoming with Small Harbor Editions in 2025. He is also co-editor of Every Place on the Map Is Disabled, an anthology of disability poetry and poetics, forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in 2026. [travisclau.com]

Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Dirt Songs, winner of the POTY Author of the Year Award and the StoryTrade Award. Her collection Alone in the House of My Heart received the 2024 Legacy Award, the 2023 ABF Best Book Award and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award. She is a member of the Ohio Advisory Group for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio and the founder/executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series Women Speak. Her work has been featured in the American Book Review, World Literature Today, The New York Times and Poem-a-Day. Find her at www.kariguterseymourpoet.com.