Charles Jensen | Writer

When I finish a project, my first instinct is to turn around 180 degrees and see what is there to be seen, the opposite of what I have been thinking—everything I haven’t let myself look at.

I would like to write:

A book that needs no binding, in which the poems can be read in any order

A book in which none of the poems are connected

A book of poems based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the series, not the film)

A sequence of poems about a character named The Matinee Idol, who appears in a Rufus Wainwright song

Some kind of prose work

A sequences of poems even more filmic than what I’ve so far done; perhaps script-like is where I want to go

My Casa Libre To Do List:

Finish writing new manuscript of poems

Finish Chicago section of LOCUSPOINT

Finish my term paper for class

Edit D. A. Powell interview

Read some books

Finish Minneapolis section of LOCUSPOINT

Not bad. Still time left for LOCUSPOINT today, maybe reading.