shameless self-promotion

  • By and large I prefer poetry that resists straightforward storytelling. I believe the poem is a made thing, a structured thing, and that’s one of the ways we set it apart from other forms of literature. Brief interview with me went up on The Writer’s Center’s blog earlier this week. Enjoy!

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  • Hot Press

    Director seeks to raise Writer’s Center profileFocus on younger, newer writers, partnering with arts organizations Having grown up in Wisconsin, lived in Minnesota and spent four years promoting a creative writing center at Arizona State University, Charles Jensen never pictured himself working in a place like Montgomery County. But the new director of the Writer’s

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  • Why Do I Write?

    Beats me. But Dustin Brookshire might know.

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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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  • A Little Plug

    The Lakeside Room is totally gorge(ous). It overlooks Tempe Town Lake and, in the evening, reflects the lights from the Mill Avenue Bridge and the lakefront walk.

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  • The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon is now for sale. The chapbook explores the story of the mysterious disappearance of Maribel Dixon in November 1934. Evidence shows she may have been involved in a dangerous experiment led by her husband, Edward Dixon, a rogue physicist with either extreme delusions or magnificent visions of a strange,

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