Sue Brannan Walker will conduct the first workshop, starting at 9:45. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of South Alabama where she taught for 25 years. She is a two-time Poet Laureate of Alabama, publisher, -editor of Negative Capability Press. She has published some 20 books —  poetry, an environmental book on the poetry of James Dickey, numerous articles on writers such as Marge Piercy, Karl Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, etc.She is included in the University of Alabama College of Education Hall of Fame and will be inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame in March, 2025. She currently teaches a Wednesday Creative Writing Class at the Mobile Botanical Gardens. She received her M Ed. MA. And PhD degrees from Tulane University.
She is honored to be doing a workshop for ASPS. In her own words,the theme of her workshop is: Writing Lyric Prose: When Poetry is Rapturous Prose, When its Refreshiing, Reward, when it’s (D)is connected Connectiveness.