![]() ![]() Jos has created community for trans poets in Southern California and nationally as the editor of THEM, a journal that Jos co-founded in 2013. We would sit on the beach with my childhood friends and gossip about what poetry we were reading. ![]() We began to have coffee and lunch dates when I would visit my family in the outskirts of Los Angeles. ![]() Jos Charles felt like hope to me because she made me feel like it was possible to be a trans poet, editor, and activist in a location that once felt so lonely. For decades, LA was not somewhere I could write or imagine other writers living. For many years Los Angeles was the place of my isolation, where I hardly knew any writers or queer and trans people. At the time I was studying at NYU and drudgingly making flights home to Los Angeles. Jos Charles and I met about five years ago through a mutual friend. Jos Charles on Poetry, Alternate Timelines, and the Entertainment Industry ![]()
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