Greetings from Ohio, Jake--if you are not a member--join the Ohio Poetry Association (OPA) --we're a very active bunch, have really good quarterly workshops and other events with published poets (often faculty from one of the Ohio schools), have a journal and newsletter with good info., and there are lots of open mics and poetry venues around Ohio looking for featured readers...good places to sell your books. The Buckeye Bookfair is this weekend in Wooster which would be a good place to be for you next year -- it's for published Ohio writers/poets.
http://www.buckeyebookfair.com/
Here's the link to OPA --
http://www.ohiopoetryassn.org/
if you click on events you'll see some of the venues. I know there is a fairly active group of writers that includes poets in the Dayton area as we had our OPA picnic in Yellow Springs this summer.