The Grace of Gazing Inward - Poems in Response to the Art of Alice Carpenter

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.

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.