From Page to Publication: A Poet-to-Poet Conversation with Georgann Eubanks & Denton Loving Two acclaimed poets, Georgann Eubanks and Denton Loving, come together to talk about writing across genres, shaping a poetry manuscript, and the writer–editor relationship. Eubanks, author of Rural Astronomy and The Fabulous Ordinary, and Loving, award-winning author of Tamp and Feller, will share their creative processes, read from their work, and offer practical tips for organizing your own collection for publication.
Georgann Eubanks is at home in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She has written six guidebooks for UNC Press introducing readers to the culture of the South, and three books in the Literary Trails series that encourage readers to see North Carolina through the eyes of its writers. She directed the Writers Workshop at Duke University for twenty years and launched the Table Rock Writers Workshop. Most recently, she is the author of The Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South, which offers readers a tour of the seasonal joys of ecosystems in the Southeast, as well as Rural Astronomy, a collection of poems that shift between childhood memories and her contemporary observations of the ongoing clash between Nature and human entitlement.
Denton Loving is a writer who is also comfortable in multiple genres. His poetry, short stories, essays, reviews and interviews have been published in numerous publications including The Kenyon Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Ecotone. He has published three full-length books of poetry including Tamp, poems about his grief after the passing of his father, which received the Tennessee Book Award for Poetry. His latest collection, Feller, explores themes of connection, longing, and the pursuit of a fully lived life, and has been described as at once deeply rooted in his Appalachian soil and universally resonant. He is a cofounder of the literary journal Cutleaf and its parent organization, EastOver Press, where he served as editor of Georgann’s book of poems, Rural Astronomy.
