Poetry and Place

Our emotions and histories are intimately connected to the places where we live and work. In this workshop, we’ll examine poems that are primarily driven by a relationship to place. We’ll also generate our own place poems, using the physical locations that mean the most to us as symbols of our emotions and to reveal our true characters.

About the Presenter

Denton Loving is the author of the poetry collections Crimes Against Birds (Main Street Rag) and Tamp (Mercer University Press). He is also the editor of Seeking Its Own Level: an anthology of writings about water (MotesBooks). For over a decade, he co-directed the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University where he also co-edited drafthorse: the literary journal of work and no work. He has received scholarships and fellowships from organizations such as the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, the Eckerd College Writers Conference, and the Key West Literary Seminars.  He earned the Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Literature from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. He is a co-founder and an editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf, and he is a poetry mentor in the MTSU Writes program at Middle Tennessee State University. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including Iron Horse Literary Review, Kenyon Review, Tupelo Quarterly, , Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Threepenny Review, and Ecotone.

MEETING INFORMATION

This program will be presented during our upcoming PST member meeting, to be held November 11 via Zoom. Members will be provided a link a few days prior. If you are interested in learning more about PST, check out our website. If you’d like to attend our meeting as a guest, contact us at poetrytennessee@gmail.com.