Dan Denton - Fight Songs for the Underdogs

Name: Dan Denton - Fight Songs for the Underdogs
Start: 2025-10-18T14:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-18T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 196 E. South Boundary, Perrysburg, OH, United States, Ohio 43551

Schedule

Sat Oct 18 2025 at 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm

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Location

196 E. South Boundary, Perrysburg, OH, United States, Ohio 43551 | Perrysburg, OH

We are excited to be welcome Dan Denton back to Gathering Volumes on Saturday, October 18, 2025!
Please join us as we celebrate Dan Denton’s Fight "Songs for the Underdogs" (Luchador Press) with readings by Dan and Jonie McIntire, Poet Laureate of Lucas County.
In Fight Songs for the Underdogs, Dan Denton echoes the determined hope of the Midwest. From "Junkyard Heart" to "Big Green Electrical Box and East Rudy Dreams," he captures the essence of skirting poverty among rust and depression. There's a backbeat of determination in his love songs to unions, in his praise of working mothers and artists, in his wearing a city like his second skin. "Toledo/ a city so tough/ that it hums the blues/ but never cries them." This is a man who fights fire and hatred with words, who spreads truth like a slow tune that repeats in the back of your brain. "Let's paint/ a little flame/ right here" he beckons, and we return to these poems as our tender sparks during dark times.
-Jonie McIntire, Poet Laureate of Lucas County, Ohio (2022-2025)