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The Poetry Society Presents Amy Pence
August 9 @ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
About the event
Workshop at 1:00, reading at 6:00. All our readings are free and open to the public. We also Zoom our meetings so you can attend from <a href="http://anywhere.
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Author Amy Pence’s work spans poetry, hybrid, fiction, interviews, and essays. Her full-length poetry collections include Armor, Amour (Ninebark, 2012) and The Decadent Lovely (Main Street Rag, 2010). Her hybrid book, [It] Incandescent (Ninebark Press, 2018), winner of the Eyelands International Poetry Award in Athens, Greece, blends fiction, poetry, and scholarship. We Travel Towards It, to be released in Spring 2025, explores both loss and the necessary resilience and insight needed in the face of climate change-induced natural disasters. Her debut novel Yellow will be released by Red Hen Press in 2026. She has taught composition and poetry for many years, including at Emory University, and continues to tutor students in <a href="http://Atlanta.
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Contrapuntal EcoPoems: A Workshop with Amy Pence 1:00-3:00
The contrapuntal poem weaves two or more columns or voicings into a single, multi-layered piece. Just like contrapuntal music where melodies can overlap, repeat, counterpoint, or even create disconnection, the poem can be read vertically and across each line to reveal new layers of meaning. We’ll use the form to respond to data and/or descriptions of climate change/ natural disasters to explore our immersion in the natural <a href="http://world.
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