Recorded live, April 14, 2025. In celebration of National Poetry Month, Denton Loving joined us for Lawson McGhee Library's monthly book discussion group, All Over the Page.

Denton Loving is the author of the poetry collections Crimes Against Birds and Tamp, recipient of the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Poetry. He is a co-founder and editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf. His fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The Kenyon Review, Iron Horse Literary Review and Ecotone. His third collection of poems, Feller, is forthcoming in 2025 from Mercer University Press.

Links:

Denton Loving's website

"Loving Wins Tennessee Book Award," Lincoln Memorial University"

"The Secret Signal to Wake," an interview and poems at Salvation South

"Two Poems by Denton Loving" at The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review

"Tamp--Denton Loving" at Griffinpoetry.com

Video: WANA (Writers Association of Northern Appalachia) Live! Reading Series featuring Denton Loving