In lieu of any Ohio poetry news, here’s a partial, excessively awesome list of poems, etc from contemporary poets who live in/are from Ohio. Enjoy.

Catherine Wagner at The Awl

Dana Ward at PennSound

Noah Falck at H_NGM_N

Alexis Pope at >kill author

Jeremy Schmall at The Faster Times

Joshua Kleinberg at Ilk

Matt Hart at Toad

Mary Biddinger at Anti-

Phil Metres at DIAGRAM

Kazim Ali at The Poetry Foundation

Nat Otting, who is at the helm of Minutes Books, whose first book is forthcoming from 1913

Nikkita Cohoon at Everyday Genius

Tyler Meier at Thermos

Jennifer Chang at The Poetry Foundation

Mark Halliday at How a Poem Happens

Lesley Jenike at La Petite Zine

Mike Krutel at Ilk

Joshua Butts at Shampoo

Michael Dumanis with red balloons at PBS NewsHour

John Estes at Poetry Daily

Jay Robinson at Diode

Eric Morris at The Collagist

Elena Tomorowitz at Red Lightbulbs

Michelle Sinsky at elimae

And this interview with Alice Notley (not from Ohio) at The Kenyon Review blog (from Ohio) comes highly recommended.

-Nick Sturm