April 13th Meeting of ASPS in Orange Beach Alabama

9:00 AM-9:15AM Coffee and light snacks

9:15-12:30 Generative workshop on surrealist poetry with Charlotte Pence director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at University of South Alabama. Paper and pencils provided.

12:30-1:30

Hot buffet lunch from Cosmo's followed by business meeting and awards!

Doors close at 3:00. Feel free to join Steve for "poems we should have got a chance to read" next door at GTs. He may even buy the first round.

Charlotte Pence’s first book of poems, Many Small Fires (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), received an INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award from Foreword Reviews. The book explores her father’s chronic homelessness while simultaneously detailing the physiological changes that enabled humans to form cities, communities, and households. She is also the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks and the editor of The Poetics of American Song Lyrics. Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have recently been published in Harvard Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and Brevity. In 2020, her next poetry collection titled Code will be published by Black Lawrence Press.