![]() ![]() In 2016, Charles was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Charles received their MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson where they now reside. ![]() They are the founding-editor of THEM, the first trans literary journal in the US, and engage in direct gender justice work with a variety of organizations and performers. Jos Charles is a trans poet, writer, and intertextual artist whose debut collection, Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). Charles knows how to leverage space and silence in a poem, how to carve the reader’s eye and gift it back to them on a silver platter. The succinct linework introduces delicate imagery with a voice that is distant, yet intimate, bare, yet bursting with bodies. The backslashes of feeld are fraught with violence. As readers, we see the break in a line ( / ) as our eyes move across, allowing the rift to be physical in a different way than a usual line break, which makes our eyes return to the left and down. These five beautiful little poems by Jos Charles prove the power of brevity. Jos Charles uses the backslash throughout feeld. ![]()
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