Tag: Jos Charles
Trans poet Jos Charles “rearranges the alphabet to survive its ferocity against her body”
Poet Jos Charles Jos Charles, 30
Poet, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist
Charles has reworked the structure of language to capture the trans experience, establishing her as one of the most promising poets of her generation.
Charles combines a deep understanding of poetic traditions with her own personal experience to create works that address gender and identity issues in a unique and moving way. Her second volume of poetry, feeld, creates a language resembling middle English to...
