Charlotte Pence
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Charlotte Pence | Associate Professor Director of Creative Writing and Director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing.
Specializes in poetry and creative nonfiction. HUMB 277 | 460-6149 | cpence@southalabama.edu |
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Code features at its center a narrative sequence with three characters: a young father; a young mother who is dying from an inherited disease; and the mother’s own DNA. Considering exciting new developments in genetics such as CRISPR, which would allow us to eradicate certain diseases, this book approaches ethical questions from a poetic and narrative lens, providing an angle that science cannot. Ultimately, Code is a book about grief—specifically, how to surmount it. The poems attest to how we preserve memory through nonverbal means such as cave art and DNA—as well as through story and poetry. |
Code. Black Lawrence Press, 2020.Books and Poetry Chapbooks
- Many Small Fires. Black Lawrence Press, February 2015.
- Award: Foreword Reviews’ IndieFab Book of the Year for 2015 (Silver Medal Winner)
- Award: The Eric Hoffer 2016 Book Award (Finalist)
- The Branches, the Axe, the Missing. Black Lawrence Press, division of Dzanc Books, May 2012.
- Award: Black River Chapbook competition winner
- The Poetics of American Song Lyrics, editor. University Press of Mississippi, January 2012.
- Weaves a Clear Night. Flying Trout Press, September 2011.
- Award: Flying Trout Chapbook competition winner
- The Writer’s Path: Creative Exercises for Meaningful Essays. Kendall Hunt, August 2004.
- Award: National Books Program selection