Third Thursday Poetry Series presenting Charlotte Pence

The public is invited to the Third Thursday Poetry Series at Pebble Hill, Charlotte Pence, on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 6 p.m. Refreshments and book sales will be available at 6 p.m. and the reading will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Pence is the director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama. Her first full-length book of poetry, Many Small Fires was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2015. Her most recent book, Code, won Alabama Poetry Society’s 2021 Book of the Year award. She has also published two chapbooks, Weaves a Clear Night (Winner of the Flying Trout Chapbook Award, 2011) and The Branches, the Axe, the Missing (Winner of the Black River Chapbook Award, 2012).

The Third Thursday Poetry Series at Pebble Hill is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill is located at 101 S. Debardeleben Street in Auburn. For more information about the series, visit aub.ie/thirdthursday.