Feeld by jos charles5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() In this interview Jos and I will discuss her most recent book of poems, feeld. She is a PhD student at UC Irvine and currently resides in Long Beach, CA. ![]() Jos Charles has an MFA from the University of Arizona. In 2016 she received the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. ![]() Jos has also written the poetry books Safe Space (Ahsahta Press) and most recently feeld (Milkweed Editions), which was long-listed for the National Book Award in poetry in 2018. Jos has created community for trans poets in Southern California and nationally as the editor of THEM, a journal that Jos co-founded in 2013. We would sit on the beach with my childhood friends and gossip about what poetry we were reading. We began to have coffee and lunch dates when I would visit my family in the outskirts of Los Angeles. Jos Charles felt like hope to me because she made me feel like it was possible to be a trans poet, editor, and activist in a location that once felt so lonely. For decades, LA was not somewhere I could write or imagine other writers living. For many years Los Angeles was the place of my isolation, where I hardly knew any writers or queer and trans people. At the time I was studying at NYU and drudgingly making flights home to Los Angeles. Jos Charles and I met about five years ago through a mutual friend. Jos Charles on Poetry, Alternate Timelines, and the Entertainment Industry ![]()
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