Charles Jensen (born April 5, 1977)Charles Jensen (Author of The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon)
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Life

He received an MFA degree in creative writing from

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,Charles Jensen : The Poetry Foundation
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''. He received the inaugural Red Mountain Review Chapbook Prize, selected by

Joel Brouwer Joel Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is ''Off Message'' released in 2016 He is also the author of ''Exactly What Happened,'' which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Comm ...

, for his collection ''Little Burning Edens'' and the 2006 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award for ''Living Things,'' an elegy sequence. 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. It was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award. He received an artist's project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. 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,'' ''

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, The Journal, Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Field, Copper Nickel,

, Prairie Schooner,

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Lynn Emanuel Lynn Collins Emanuel (born March 14, 1949) is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections are ''Then, Suddenly—'' and ''Noose and Hook'' (University of Pittsburgh Press). She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the A ...

, and Frank Paino.ASU Writers Conference
In 2006, he founded ''LOCUSPOINT'', an online

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dedicated to publishing creative work on a city-by-city basis, selected by a guest editor who lives in that city.

Works

"Joseph Smith's Prayer for the God Made Flesh,"
''Whale Sound''

published by ''spork''

published by ''The Collagist''

''Blood Orange Review''

''Best of the Net 2007'' (originally published in ''No Tell Motel'')
"Flowers,"
''No Tell Motel''

References

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jensen, Charles 1977 births Living people American male poets American editors University of Minnesota alumni Arizona State University alumni American gay writers American LGBT poets 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American LGBT people Gay poets