A native of Columbus, Ohio, Chuck Salmons is a poet and for more than decade, has served as part of the leadership of the Ohio Poetry Association. He earned a B.A. from Otterbein College and a M.A. from Northern Michigan University.
Chuck's poems have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Northern Appalachia Review, Slippery Elm, Pudding Magazine, Evening Street Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Common Threads, The Fib Review, Shot Glass Journal, Everything Stops and Listens, A Rustling and Waking Within, Eclipsing the Dark, Poets to Come, and I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices. His has published two chapbooks, Stargazer Suite (11th Hour Press, 2016), and Patch Job (NightBallet Press, 2017). His newest book is a collection of ekphrastic poems titled, The Grace of Gazing Inward: Poems in Response to the Art of Alice Carpenter (Dos Madres Press, 2024), where the poems are printed alongside the beautiful monotypes of Alice Carpenter.
He won the 2011 William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest, sponsored by The Poetry Forum of Columbus, and has garnered awards from Ohio Poetry Day. He is a recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for his poetry. Chuck regularly gives readings throughout Ohio, both solo and as part of the poetry trio Concrete Wink. He also leads workshops for various groups and audiences.
Chuck's poetry has also been exhibited visually in artistic form. He has been a featured artist in the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Art in the Lobby program in Columbus three times.
Chuck has worked in a variety of fields, including construction, education, and retail. He loves science, which often influences his poems, and works as Communications Manager at the Ohio Geological Survey.
Chuck's poems have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Northern Appalachia Review, Slippery Elm, Pudding Magazine, Evening Street Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Common Threads, The Fib Review, Shot Glass Journal, Everything Stops and Listens, A Rustling and Waking Within, Eclipsing the Dark, Poets to Come, and I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices. His has published two chapbooks, Stargazer Suite (11th Hour Press, 2016), and Patch Job (NightBallet Press, 2017). His newest book is a collection of ekphrastic poems titled, The Grace of Gazing Inward: Poems in Response to the Art of Alice Carpenter (Dos Madres Press, 2024), where the poems are printed alongside the beautiful monotypes of Alice Carpenter.
He won the 2011 William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest, sponsored by The Poetry Forum of Columbus, and has garnered awards from Ohio Poetry Day. He is a recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for his poetry. Chuck regularly gives readings throughout Ohio, both solo and as part of the poetry trio Concrete Wink. He also leads workshops for various groups and audiences.
Chuck's poetry has also been exhibited visually in artistic form. He has been a featured artist in the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Art in the Lobby program in Columbus three times.
Chuck has worked in a variety of fields, including construction, education, and retail. He loves science, which often influences his poems, and works as Communications Manager at the Ohio Geological Survey.