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Charles Jensen [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Los Angeles, CA
California US
Email: 
charles.jensen@gmail.com
Bio: 

Charles Jensen (he/him) wrote Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres, forthcoming in May 2024 from Santa Fe Writer’s Project. His most recent collection of poetry is Instructions between Takeoff and Landing. His previous books include two collections of poetry and seven chapbooks of cross-genre work. The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs designated him a 2019-2020 Cultural Trailblazer, and he is the recipient of the 2020 Outwrite Nonfiction Chapbook Award, 2018 Zócalo Poetry Prize, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, the 2007 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award, and an Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner, Exposition Review, The Florida Review, and Passages North. He founded the online poetry magazine LOCUSPOINT, which explored creative work on a city-by-city basis. He hosts The Write Process, a podcast in which one writer tells the story of crafting one work from concept to completion. He lives in Long Beach and directs the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Twitter/X: 
@charles_jensen
Born in: 
Eagle, WI
Wisconsin
Raised in: 
Eagle, WI
Wisconsin
Website: 
https://www.charles-jensen.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Red Mountain Review Chapbook Award, 2005 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award, 2006 Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist's Project Grant, 2007 Entrepreneurial Advantage Grant (Arizona State University), Dorothy Sergeant Rosenberg Prize, 2018 Zócalo Poetry Prize, 2019-2020 City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Trailblazer Award, 2020 Outwrite Chapbook Award

Education: 
Arizona State University
Identifies as: 
European American
LGBTQ
Scandinavian American
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Incarcerated Individuals
LGBTQ
Seniors
Teachers
Teenagers
Veterans

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/charles_jensen [2] https://www.charles-jensen.com