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  • My forthcoming book

    I got a signed contract back in the mail today, so… Here goes. My first full-length poetry collection will be published by Lethe Press early in 2009. Tentative title (aka what I’m calling it this week): The First Risk

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  • …at the Hayden’s Ferry Review blog. I meant to post this last week, but last week was crazy. Teaser: “Well, it might surprise you to know that behind my chipper, happy-go-lucky demeanor exists a risk-obsessed, suspicious inner voice, and this is absolutely critical to my job. I’ve discovered I have a particular knack for discerning

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  • The Gay Blade

    My likeness appears alongside a weekly interview called “Queery” in this week’s Washington Blade: Washington is known as a city of transplants, and CHARLES JENSEN is one of the capital’s newbies. Moving from the greater Phoenix area about two weeks ago, Jensen is now the director of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Md., which conducts

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  • Tightrope

    You’ll forgive me for being a little scattered this week as I pull together my last big projects and exams for the semester. Only two classes left until I graduate! Yay! In December. Boo.

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  • My poem “I Am the Boy Who Is Tied Down” has been accepted for MiPo. It’s the concluding poem of the M.S. section of RISK. A few other pieces from the book have been accepted elsewhere, so I’m happy it’s (slowly) getting out there. I’m rebuilding the second section. I’m wondering if maybe some of

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