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Breaking up: How to End Our Poems and Prose with Charlotte Pence
In this online workshop, poet Charlotte Pence will focus on different strategies both poets and prose writers have employed to create satisfying yet surprising endings. Some writers we will find inspiration from include Eduardo Corral, Jericho Brown, Layli Long Soldier, Joan Didion, Kazuo Ishiguru, and Annie Proulx. After we look at examples together, participants will have the opportunity to revise endings that they bring to the workshop in break-out groups.

Charlotte Pence’s new collection of poems, Code (Black Lawrence Press), was named one of the top ten Best Poetry Books of 2020 among independent publishers by Foreword Reviews. Her first book of poems, Many Small Fires (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), received an INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award from Foreword Reviews. She is also author of two award-winning chapbooks and editor of The Poetics of American Song Lyrics. A graduate of Emerson College (MFA) and the University of Tennessee (PhD), she is now the director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at University of South Alabama.

Saturday, June 19, 10 AM – Noon
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Reduced prices for this online class: $10 students, $20 members, $30 nonmembers. You must register by midnight Thursday, Mar. 18. You will receive an email from our webmaster with the link the morning after registration closes.
https://knoxvillewritersguild.org/events/june21workshop/