Charles Jensen (poet)
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Charles Jensen (born April 5, 1977)[1] is an American poet and editor.
Life[]
He received an MFA degree in creative writing from Arizona State University,[2] where he served as a poetry editor for Hayden's Ferry Review. He received the inaugural Red Mountain Review Chapbook Prize,[3] selected by Joel Brouwer, for his collection Little Burning Edens and the 2006 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award for Living Things, an elegy sequence.[4] He was a published finalist for the 2007 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Award for his mixed genre story The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon.His first full-length book of poems, The First Risk, was published by Lethe Press in 2009.[5] It was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award. He received an artist's project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.[1] His other chapbooks are The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture (MiPOEASIAS Chapbook Series, 2012), Breakup/Breakdown (Five Oaks Press, 2016), and Story Problems, winner of the 2017 Palooka Press Chapbook Contest (Palooka Press, 2017).
His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, , New England Review, The Journal, Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Field, Copper Nickel, Hayden's Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, and . With the poet Sarah Vap, he published interviews with several poets, including C. D. Wright, Lynn Emanuel, and Frank Paino.[6]
In 2006, he founded LOCUSPOINT, an online literary journal dedicated to publishing creative work on a city-by-city basis, selected by a guest editor who lives in that city.[2]
Works[]
- "Joseph Smith's Prayer for the God Made Flesh," Whale Sound
- Selections from The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon published by spork
- Selections from NANOPEDIA: The Smallest American Reference published by The Collagist
- "Shopping," Blood Orange Review
- "Bargaining," Best of the Net 2007 (originally published in No Tell Motel)
- "Flowers," No Tell Motel
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Charles Jensen (Author of The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Charles Jensen : The Poetry Foundation
- ^ Charles Jensen | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers
- ^ Featuring a selection from Living Things by Charles Jensen
- ^ Blog → Fictionaut
- ^ ASU Writers Conference Archived October 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- Reading of "I Am the Boy Who Is Tied Down" at the 2010 Decatur Book Festival
- Reading of "It Was October" at the 2010 Baltimore Book Festival
- 1977 births
- Living people
- American male poets
- American editors
- University of Minnesota alumni
- Arizona State University alumni
- LGBT writers from the United States
- Gay writers
- LGBT poets
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American male writers