Join us Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading with Denton Loving and Erika Nichols-Frazer. Denton will be reading from his poetry collection, Tamp, and Erika will be reading from her memoir, Feed Me. Registration is required! Please register (below) to receive the Zoom link.

Denton Loving is the author of the poetry collections Crimes Against Birds (Main Street Rag) and Tamp (from 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. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including Iron Horse Literary Review, Kenyon Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Chattahoochee Review, Harvard Divinity Bulletin and The Threepenny Review.

Tamp can be purchased here.

Erika Nichols-Frazer is the author of the memoir Feed Me: A Story of Food, Love and Mental Illness, as well as the forthcoming poetry collection Staring Too Closely. Her essays, poetry, and short stories have appeared in journals such as River Teeth's "Beautiful Things," Gone Lawn, Emerge Literary Journal, Red Fern Review, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in Vermont, where she works as a staff writer at her local newspaper and a freelance editor.

Feed Me can be purchased here.

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