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Visiting Writers Series: Jos Charles

October 17, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Free
View Venue Website, 3203 SE Woodstock, Portland, OR 97202 + Google Map

Jos Charles is author of feeld, a National Book Award long-listed finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions) and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press). Charles has poetry published with POETRY, Poem-a-Day, PEN, Washington Square Review, Denver Quarterly, Action Yes, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. Charles’ writing has been featured on BitchMedia, Entropy, GLAAD, LAMBDA Literary, and elsewhere. In 2016 she received the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship through the Poetry Foundation. In 2015 she received the Monique Wittig Writer’s Scholarship. Jos Charles has an MFA from the University of Arizona. From 2013-2018 she served as the founding-editor for THEM lit, a trans literary journal. She is a PhD student at UC Irvine and currently resides in Long Beach, CA.

Venue

Reed College – Eliot Hall Chapel
3203 SE Woodstock
Portland, OR 97202
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Phone
503-771-1112
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Organizers

English Department at Reed College
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Reed College Visiting Writers Series
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503-777-7753
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