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"Chuck Salmons won the 2011 William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest, sponsored by The Poetry Forum of Columbus, has garnered awards from Ohio Poetry Day, and is a recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for his poetry. The modern ekphrastic poems in THE GRACE OF GAZING INWARD seek to engage in a conversation with artwork created by Alice Carpenter. Each poem responds to a particular monotype, an artform that incorporates aspects of painting and printmaking. Most of Carpenter's monotypes, which are printed alongside their respective poems, are very small (typically a few square inches) and very detailed landscapes where the moon is prominent. Through highly lyrical poems, Salmons considers such questions as identity, human relationships with nature and each other, and the nature of art. Each poem reflects, in form and content, the monotype it speaks to using fresh imagery, lines of brevity, and concise, spare language. ""'Given the choice, how would you enter the space, ' asks poet Chuck Salmons in his transcendent collection of ekphrastic poetry THE GRACE OF GAZING INWARD. Each poem is a skillful blend of observation, reverence, wonder and whispers, tight with insights that linger. The art is the words, the words are the art, at some point one easily loses track of which may have come first. Salmons has a gift for meter and turning a poem in adroitly ingenious directions, a poet who looks beyond the frame to consider what might exist 'out by the hard edge of the world.' This book is one to sit with, contemplate, savor."" --Kari Gunter-Seymour Poetry. Art."

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"Chuck Salmons is a poet who has served as part of the leadership for the Ohio Poetry Association for more than a decade. His poems have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Chiron Review; Pudding Magazine; Evening Street Review; The Ekphrastic Review; Common Threads; The Fib Review; Shot Glass Journal; Everything Stops and Listens (The Ohio Poetry Association, 2013); Poets to Come: A Poetry Anthology (Local Gems Press, 2019), in honor of Walt Whitman's bicentennial; and I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2022). He is the author of two previous chapbooks, Stargazer Suite (11thour Press, 2016) and Patch Job (NightBallet Press, 2017). He won the 2011 William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest, sponsored by The Poetry Forum of Columbus, has garnered awards from Ohio Poetry Day, and is a recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for his poetry. Alice Carpenter, printmaker and painter, has devoted her printmaking practice to the monotype since 2014. Her monotypes have received recognition in numerous regional juried exhibitions, as well as national juried shows, including The Butler Institute of American Art 85th National Midyear Exhibition, Director's Award 2021. Recently, she was honored to have two of her monotypes selected and published in the Fall 2023 online Decoy Issue of The Harvard Advocate. Her work often reflects the childhood nighttime magic she found growing up in rural Appalachian Ohio. After the past 50 years of ""city living"" in Columbus, Ohio, a recent move to Wallingford, Connecticut, has returned her to her rural roots."

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