ONE ART’s April Reading with Featured Poets: Kari Gunter-Seymour, Amit Majmudar, Chad Frame

ONE ART’s April Reading with Featured Poets: Kari Gunter-Seymour, Amit Majmudar, Chad Frame

Date: Sunday, April 6

Time: 2pm Eastern

Featured Poets: Kari Gunter-Seymour, Amit Majmudar, Chad Frame

Tickets: Free or Donation

~ About The Featured Poets ~

Kari Gunter-Seymour is the Poet Laureate of Ohio and the author of three award-winning collections of poetry, including Dirt Songs (EastOver Press 2024) and Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press 2022). She is the Executive Director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series Women Speak, and the host of “Spoken & Heard” a seasonal reading series featuring poets, writers and singer/songwriters from throughout the country. Her work has been featured in a number of periodicals and journals including the American Book Review, Poem-a-Day, World Literature Today and The New York Times. Find her at www.karigunterseymourpoet.com.

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Amit Majmudar is a poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. He works as a diagnostic nuclear radiologist in Westerville, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and three children. Recent books include Twin A: A Memoir (Slant Books, 2023), The Great Game: Essays on Poetics (Acre Books, 2024), the hybrid work Three Metamorphoses (Orison Books, 2025), and the poetry collection Things my Grandmother Said (Knopf, 2026). More information at www.amitmajmudar.com

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Chad Frame is the author of three books of poetry: Little Black Book, Cryptid, and Smoking Shelter. He is the Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program, a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe, and the founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival. His work appears in Rattle, Strange Horizons, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and is archived on the moon with The Lunar Codex.

ONE ART’s 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Congratulations to Chad Frame, Heather Swan, Erin Murphy, Kristin Garth, CL Bledsoe, and Eric Nelson!!

Read these meritorious poems here:

Chad Frame – Shepard

Heather Swan – On the Day After You Left This World

Eric Murphy – Revision Lesson

Kristin Garth – Sometimes a Cigar is Not Just

CL Bledsoe – I Wish You Were Fun

Eric Nelson – My Brothers

Two Poems by Chad Frame

Shepard

There on the hill—
a scarecrow—no—

a boy, tear-tracks
through blood and grime,

slumped, arms raised, tied
to a buck rail,

and left to watch
over his flock.

When I learn this,
I’m just fifteen,

a sophomore,
thinking maybe

I could just tell
someone, a friend,

what I’m feeling,
grow bold enough

to act on it.
What is a kiss?

the cold pistol
our attraction

has whipped us with.
Matthew, I wish

I could show you
what you’ve achieved,

a boy, tear-tracks
through blood and grime.

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Dungeons &

two eighth grade outcasts & a lunch table
& telling jokes & brandishing a Cheeto
like a wizened staff to cheer you up
when that girl from Algebra & you don’t work out
& I shout Gandalf the Orange! & you snort Pepsi
like flames & your cheeks dimple & you shake
sleek hair from your brown eyes & we toss dice
& I can’t admit it’s not an elf
& not a wizard I’m pretending to be
& I love you & I’m sorry & for me
it’s never been a game about dragons.

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Chad Frame’s work appears in Rattle, Pedestal, Rust+Moth, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere, as well as on iTunes from the Library of Congress. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry improv/performance troupe, and founder/director of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His collection, Little Black Book, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.