Charlie Clark studied poetry at the University of Maryland. His work has appeared in New England Review, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, and other journals. A 2019 NEA fellow, he is the author of The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2020). He lives in Austin, TX. You can find him on Facebook.
Charlie Clark
Charlie Clark: Address To That Inept Gladiator Timorous
1. SUPPOSING THE FUTILITY OF LANGUAGE AS A MEANS OF PROTECTING ONESELF FROM HARM Your armor amounts to the skin of some very large dead beasts, yet you retain such glamour. If you don’t know the word, that’s because the Scots hadn’t yet invented it. There wasn’t enough enchanting mist strewn on even a rainy […]
Charlie Clark: The Beast I Worship
I light my torch and burn it. I am the beast I worship. —Death Grips, “Beware” The beast I worship doesn’t blame the tree for its lithe, expanding glamour, yet beneath a sky full of blue kingfishers crying tears from the tree the placard with its Latin name laid out in a lush calligraphy and […]
Episode 90: Je Recuse!
This episode is all about craft and connections: literary craft and professional connections. In the notoriously small world of poetry and creative writing, should editors recuse themselves from making editorial decisions? Things get wonderfully complicated when you know a poet— be it from grad school, from a workshop, from a conference. Or from dressing up […]