# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Marc Harshman: Dispatch from the Mountain State
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 19 Aug, 2025 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Dispatch from the Mountain State encompasses the trademark themes of a mature poet—death, despair, dread, and the seeming randomness with which all of these come into life. The dispatches provide, if sometimes obliquely, a keen awareness of the troubled times within which we live, whether the flashpoint be race, the recent pandemic, or the reckless onslaught of the Appalachian mining industry, which is masterfully addressed in the long poem, “The Breach.” Harshman’s distinctive vision remains both surreal and familiar, whether expressed in a sonnet or the more common free-verse characteristic of most of his work. 

This collection of over forty poems sings with a fluid voice and dazzles with imagery that surprises and rings true, often underlain by and intertwined with the darker threads of our common living and dying as contemporary Appalachians. It is rare to find a poet like Harshman, who is deeply connected to the life of rural America and yet writes poetry untouched by any sentiment for the old ways found there. 

Marc Harshman is poet laureate of West Virginia. He has published eight collections of poetry, including the award-winning titles Woman in Red Anorak and Believe What You Can. He is also the author/coauthor of fourteen children’s books. Harshman was recently named the Appalachian Heritage Writer for 2024 by Shepherd University’s Appalachian Studies program. He holds degrees from Bethany College, Yale Divinity School, and the University of Pittsburgh. He lives in Wheeling.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Wheeling
- **state**: WV
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library
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- **long**: -80.720057623965
- **full address**: Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th St, Wheeling, WV 26003-3671, United States

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- **organizer**: Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/lunch-with-books-at-the-ohio-county-public-library/25936140)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 19 Aug, 2025 at 12:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th St, Wheeling, WV 26003-3671, United States
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- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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