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Women Speak

A Performance of Many Voices by Women of Appalachia Project

2023-08-12 13:00:00 2023-08-12 15:00:00 America/New_York Women Speak Poetry readings by contributors to “Women Speak Volume 8,” a publication of the Women of Appalachia Project provided by women throughout 11 Appalachian states.  Main Library - McMaster Center and Lobby

Saturday, August 12
1:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-08-12 13:00:00 2023-08-12 15:00:00 America/New_York Women Speak Poetry readings by contributors to “Women Speak Volume 8,” a publication of the Women of Appalachia Project provided by women throughout 11 Appalachian states.  Main Library - McMaster Center and Lobby

Main Library

McMaster Center and Lobby

Poetry readings by contributors to “Women Speak Volume 8,” a publication of the Women of Appalachia Project provided by women throughout 11 Appalachian states. 

Hosted by Uncloistered Poetry and the Toledo Lucas County Public Library.

Coordinated by Editor and Poet Laureate of Ohio, Kari Gunter-Seymour, this event will include readings by contributors to “Women Speak Volume 8,” a publication of the Women of Appalachia Project provided by women throughout 11 Appalachian states. 

The Women of Appalachia Project encourages participation from women of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, inviting submissions of spoken word and fine art, shared in public forums and annual anthologies. Artists share culture and experiences, embrace issues of marginalization and stereotype, creating a force, unified and non-violently confrontational, to show the whole woman, beyond superficial factors often used to judge her.  

Kari Gunter-Seymour's poetry collections include Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press, 2022) and A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen (Sheila Na Gig Editions, 2020), winner of the 2020 Ohio Poet of the Year Award. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Verse Daily, World Literature Today, and on Poem-a-Day. A ninth generation Appalachian, she is the editor of I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, funded through an Academy of American Poets Fellowship Grant and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Women of Appalachia Project’s anthology series, Women Speak. Gunter-Seymour is the founder/director of Women of Appalachia Project; founder, curator, and host of “Spoken & Heard,” a seasonal performance series featuring poets, writers, and musicians from across the country; an artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts and a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio. 

Uncloistered Poetry is a monthly reading series based in Toledo hosted by Lucas County Poet Laureate Jonie McIntire. Uncloistered Poetry brings poets from all over the country to read in Toledo and even hosts monthly online readings with an international following.

AGE GROUP: | All Ages |

EVENT TYPE: | Performances/Special Events |

TAGS: | womenshistory | bigidea |

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Sat, Oct 05, 9:30am - 1:00pm
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Sat, Oct 05, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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Mon, Oct 07, 10:00am - 10:45am
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Wed, Oct 09, 12:00pm - 12:45pm
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Thu, Oct 10, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Fri, Oct 11, 10:00am - 11:00am
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Sat, Oct 12, 9:30am - 4:45pm
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Sat, Oct 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
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Sat, Oct 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
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Sat, Oct 12, 12:30pm - 2:30pm
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Sat, Oct 12, 12:30pm - 2:15pm

Sat, Oct 12, 12:40pm - 1:40pm
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Sat, Oct 12, 2:00pm - 3:45pm
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Sat, Oct 12, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
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Tue, Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
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Tue, Oct 15, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
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Wed, Oct 16, 10:30am - 12:00pm
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Wed, Oct 16, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
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Thu, Oct 17, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
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Thu, Oct 17, 5:15pm - 7:15pm
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Thu, Oct 17, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Thu, Oct 17, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Sat, Oct 19, 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Sat, Oct 19, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Mon, Oct 21, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Tue, Oct 22, 10:30am - 12:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Thu, Oct 24, 10:00am - 11:30am
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Thu, Oct 24, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Thu, Oct 24, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Teen Space

Thu, Oct 24, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
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Fri, Oct 25, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 26, 10:00am - 2:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)
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Sat, Oct 26, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Mon, Oct 28, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Mon, Oct 28, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Tue, Oct 29, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Teen Space

Tue, Oct 29, 4:30pm - 7:30pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Wed, Oct 30, 5:00pm - 8:30pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Fri, Nov 01, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Nov 02, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Studio Lab Making Lab

Sat, Nov 02, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Studio Editing room 2

Sat, Nov 02, 11:00am - 12:15pm
McMaster Center and Lobby
This event is full

Sat, Nov 02, 11:00am - 11:25am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Nov 02, 11:15am - 12:00pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Nov 02, 11:15am - 12:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Sat, Nov 02, 11:30am - 11:55am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Nov 02, 12:00pm - 12:25pm
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Nov 02, 12:15pm - 1:00pm
Small Business and Nonprofit Workspace

Sat, Nov 02, 12:15pm - 1:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Sat, Nov 02, 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Nov 02, 1:30pm - 2:45pm
McMaster Center and Lobby
This event is full

Sat, Nov 02, 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Nov 02, 1:45pm - 2:30pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Sat, Nov 02, 2:45pm - 3:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Nov 02, 2:45pm - 3:30pm
Small Business and Nonprofit Workspace

Sat, Nov 02, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
McMaster Center and Lobby
This event is full