The schedule for the Nantucket Book Festival is now out. On Saturday, June 22nd, Charlotte will be reading with David Kirby at 1:40 and talking with Wyn Cooper, Jody Redhage Ferber, and David Kirby about the connections between poetry and songs at 11.45.
Need some inspiration for your poetry? Or for teaching poetry? Charlotte has an essay in the just released collection Mapping the Line: Poets on Teaching, edited by Bruce Guernsey. This book is simply a gem and offers classroom-tested writing exercises by some of the country's best writers and teachers including David Baker, Claudia Emerson, and Robert Wrigley. Here's a link.
Latest review of The Poetics of American Song Lyrics in
Mead says "it will educate and thrill at the same time."
Some reviews explain the work better than the author could. And this is one of them: By Tawnysha Greene.
Black Lawrence Press has accepted Charlotte's first poetry collection. Look for it in 2014!
Review calls The Branches, the Axe, the Missing "a weirdly masterful little book….”
The Rumpus reviews Charlotte's chapbook: "The result is a powerful, dynamic work, an ambitious vision fully realized, so forceful in its impact that the images reside in the mind long after the book is closed." --William Wright
Literary Aficionado reviews The Branches, the Axe, the Missing and says that "Charlotte Pence...establishes herself quite quietly as an artist to heed." Read the full review here.
Charlotte reviews Honky Tonk Girl: My LIfe in Lyrics by Loretta Lynn for Chapter 16.
Charlotte Pence will be joining the faculty at Eastern Illinois University in fall of 2013.
American Songwriter reviews The Poetics of American Song Lyrics and gives it 4 1/2 stars!
Poets.org spotlights Claudia Emerson's essay from The Poetics of American Song Lyrics. Read the article in full here.
Check out a review for The Poetics of American Song Lyrics in Chapter 16 here.
