A native of Columbus, Ohio, Chuck Salmons is a poet and for more than a decade, has served as part of the leadership for the Ohio Poetry Association. His poems have appeared in several journals, including Chiron Review, Evening Street Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Common Threads, The Fib Review, Main Street Rag, Northern Appalachia Review, Shot Glass Journal, Pudding Magazine, and Slippery Elm, and anthologies including Everything Stops and Listens; Poets to Come: A Poetry Anthology, in honor of Walt Whitman’s bicentennial; and I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices. He has published three previous poetry collections: Stargazer Suite (11thour Press, 2016), Patch Job (NightBallet Press, 2017), and The Grace of Gazing Inward: Poems in Response to the Art of Alice Carpenter (Dos Madres Press, 2024). His most-recent fourth collection is Surviving the Eremocene (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025).
Chuck 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 regularly gives readings throughout Ohio, both solo and as part of the poetry trio Concrete Wink, including the Columbus Arts Festival, the Winter Solstice Poetry Reading in Yellow Springs, the Rhapsody & Refrain series sponsored by The Streetlight Guild, and the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival.
Chuck leads workshops for various groups and audiences, including at the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery. And his poetry has been exhibited artistically in several places, including three features for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources “Art in the Lobby” program and in the 2021 After Hours exhibition at the Riffe Gallery in Columbus.
Chuck has worked in a variety of fields, including construction, education, and retail. He loves science, which often influences his poems, and works at the Ohio Geological Survey. Learn more at his website: chucksalmons.com.
