<DIV><p>"This poetry is dangerous in the way that we've always suspected poetry might be: poetry as truth-teller, poetry as seductress. There's enough narrative to keep anyone who loves stories hooked; experimental spaces for the innovative reader to co-create in; fierce honesty that does not give way to any trend; lyricism that can be set to music. Once you've entered the silken tent of Charlotte Pence's poetry, you will want to stay inside the intelligence and beauty for a long time, to resist the ordinary."?Marilyn Kallet</p><p><B>Charlotte Pence</B>'s poetry has received the Discovered Voices award, an individual artist commission from Tennessee.</p></DIV>