Growing up along Ohio’s northeastern shore, Dave Lucas felt the poetry of Lake Erie many years before he knew its landscapes could be thought of that way. A moment of epiphany for him came as a teenager, reading Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio—a poem that not only name-dropped a place familiar to Lucas as near his father’s hometown, but also showed him how so few words could bring it to life. “Instantly I was struck by: This can be … Continue reading 5 questions with… Dave Lucas, Ohio’s new poet laureate and CWRU English lecturer