Social Yet Distanced: The Gospel Of the Blue Collar From A Working Class Punk Hostage. Ladies and Gents, Dan Denton

Dan Denton, who incidentally knows nothing about that pesky Hoffa thing, at 13, read an original ode to Jesus at an evangelical church camp in Alabama. The Christians loved it so much that an elderly minister felt called by God to anoint young Denton as a consecrated vessel to do God’s work for the rest of his life. Denton became an atheist, and frequented underground punk shows, stole books from libraries. living a gutter drunk life in his early 20’s. However, reading back alley poems to the homeless is God’s work Still leaves room for being a consecrated vessel... His writing has been published online, in print journals, multiple newspapers, and anthologies. He has two previous chapbooks; Bury My Heart in the Gutter (EMP Press, 2018) and Give Us This Day Our Daily Grind: an Ode to the American Factory Worker (Lunch Bucket Brigade, 2020.) He has read his poetry in support of 100k poets for change in multiple states and has read at underground poetry festivals with some of America’s best outlaw poets. Dan sums it all up best... I hope they put this on my tombstone: “Dan Denton gave his life to poetry and American labor.” Outro PoemBomb from Rich Ferguson "SoundcheckAt The End Of The World" A collaboration with musician/producer Bo Blount. created remotely during quarantine. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialyetdistanced/support