Tag: poetry
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...
Gay Vietnamese-American Poet Won £5,000 At Poetry Oscars
A Gay Vietnam-born poet just won the top award at the “Poetry Oscars.”
28-year-old Ocean Vuong just received £5,000 for winning the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection at the Forward Prizes for his book Night Sky With Exit Wounds.
Andrew Marr, the head of the judging panel, praised Vuong’s writing as ''a truly remarkable new voice".
He explained further that:
''This exciting poet navigates different terrains, from personal traumas to history and mythology, with great skill and imagination. Formally daring, and...
