University of Maryland
2119 Tawes Hall
Ulrich Recital Hall
College Park, MD 20742
United States
Free and open to the public.
Jos Charles (feeld) will read with Samantha Hunt for the University of Maryland’s Writers Here & Now series.
Writers Here & Now brings writers of national and international prominence to the University of Maryland. It provides an opportunity for the university community to hear and meet the best writers of contemporary poetry and fiction. The visits by writers include a public reading preceded by a reception at Queen Anne’s Hall and classroom visits with MFA graduate students and undergraduate students in residence at the Jimenez-Porter Writers House.
Jos Charles
Jos Charles is the author of a Year & other poems and feeld, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah.
This National Poetry Series winner defiantly makes space for bodies that have been historically denied their own vocabulary. These poems stake a claim on the language available to speak about trans experience.