Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Taking the form of "the world's smallest encyclopedia" of American culture, the prose poems in NANOPEDIA explore concepts coined in or corrupted by (or both) America from vantage points that are both deeply personal and politically charged.
Charles Jensen is the author of six chapbooks of poems—including the recent Story Problems and Breakup/Breakdown—as well as The First Risk, which was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award, and NANOPEDIA (Tinderbox Editions, 2018). His previous chapbooks include Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award, and The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon (New Michigan Press, 2007). His poem "Tucson" received the 2018 Zócalo Poetry Prize. A past recipient of an Artist's Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, his poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Field, The Journal, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner. He is the founding editor of the online poetry magazine LOCUSPOINT, which explores creative work on a city-by-city basis. He lives in Los Angeles.