Charles Valle
@check4charles
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Poet | Transformational Change Director | Poetry Editor @fencebooks My poetry book, PROOF OF STAKE: AN ELEGY, available through @fonograf_ed
Portland, OR
Joined April 2017
Interview // An Elegy of Resistance: A Conversation with Charles Valle https://t.co/q8gKwxlKFu via @poetrynw
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"It’s interesting to me how when we think of the dead and project their presence in our lives, the projections often point to events or milestones that the dead will not experience with us. Birthda...
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Join us in celebrating #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Pick several reads from an indie press or lit mag like @kayapress, @InlandiaInst, @yellowarrowpub, @futurepoem, @pocketsmag, @epiphanylit, or @fonograf_ed—all featured in this year’s reading list:
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Celebrate Filipino American History Month, observed annually during October, with literature published by our member magazines and presses. (Learn more about Filipino American History Month here.) ...
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if you're a young person, ask a middle-aged man what music they listened to in the 90s. let them talk for 30 mins. act interested and say "oh wow no way that's so cool." after that you can ask them for any favor
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Going through my Notes app and adding cuttings to the long poem I've been working on and came upon this fragment: "Defenestration is a wonder bug" 🤷♂️
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What if I started a bank that borrowed money to buy student loans and ended up bankrupt after forgiving everyone’s loans?
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Thanks @justinmarkspb ! Good seeing you in Seattle...hope to make it out to NY later this year!
Diving into my AWP stack. Have read and LOVED these books so far. @BlackOceanOrg Alicia Mountain, @poemostar and @check4charles
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This song's been stuck in my head for the past couple days
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Spent the last two hours on Internet Archive looking at my old Diaryland entries...
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Can't believe this summer marks 20 years with @FenceBooks ! Haven't received my copy, but pretty excited for issue #40!
The 40th issue of FENCE is being printed!! 🐚 Featuring a forum gathered by @edgaresque, & a new section dedicated to poetry & prose in translation— 🪷 Also featuring 300+ more pages of deeply various & nonconforming poetry, fiction, & other writing! 🐳⤵️ https://t.co/aD3p7iBCTm
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This year's poetry goal is to create a moment in one of my long poems as surprising and satisfying as the "Aww Yeaaah" at 4:51 in Primal Scream's "Loaded."
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If you’re in Portland next week for @literaryarts Book Festival, come say “hi.”
Fence will be there on November 5th! Come to our table (sharing with @fonograf_ed 💕) at the book fair to get some Fence goodies and say hi to longtime Fence poetry editor @check4charles 🐳🌈🌝🌞#Oregonians #Portland
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THE FENCE LITERARY MAGAZINE AND BOOKS 2022 ART + OBJECT + EXPERIENCE AUCTION ends oct 26 Link in bio https://t.co/GoVjX0XXde… and goes out with a not-to-miss event. Register at https://t.co/wvurw7qe3l… -- you will receive further instructions by email before the event begins,
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Great to see @check4charles's Proof of Stake (Fonograf Editions, 2021) on @CLMP's #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth list. Valle “carries his lost loved one close against his chest as he soars through centuries, continents, climates, colonialisms and profit motives.” —@JoyelleMcS
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A Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2022 https://t.co/etZrATjajf
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For Filipino American History Month, observed annually during October, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the literature they recommend...
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My first book review! Thanks @fckyrbookclub
New on fck yr bookclub: a take on the poetry collection _Proof of Stake_ by @check4charles out from @fonograf_ed. A real gut-puncher, this one. https://t.co/tUg5fTJmsL
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Looking forward to reading @JohannesGoranss while the Oregon wildfires keep me trapped indoors
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