Charles Jensen
@charlesjensen.bsky.social
Author of SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES, poetry coll. INSTRUCTIONS BETWEEN TAKEOFF AND LANDING, & more. EIC: @villaineralit.bsky.social. Genre is a construct. Opinions mine. He/him. https://charles-jensen.com
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Did we DOGE a bullet
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Did we DOGE a bullet
Appreciate the kind words about my labor of vengeance 🖤🖤🖤 These poems are VERY knifey. 🔪🔪🔪
@villaineralit.bsky.social is the coolest litmag I’ve discovered in a while. I was delighted when they snapped up 4 of my poems. Sharing a snippet of the first, “Goodbye, John,” which I wrote just last month. If you’d like to read more, the link is below in the comments ⬇️🤗 😎 🔪
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Appreciate the kind words about my labor of vengeance 🖤🖤🖤 These poems are VERY knifey. 🔪🔪🔪
Drag name: Emma Tationcrab
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Drag name: Emma Tationcrab
First day with my progressive lenses (and new frames) 👨🏻🦳👨🏻🦳👨🏻🦳👨🏻🦳
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
First day with my progressive lenses (and new frames) 👨🏻🦳👨🏻🦳👨🏻🦳👨🏻🦳
Enlightenment
Transformation
Healing
(All extremely welcomed)
Transformation
Healing
(All extremely welcomed)
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Enlightenment
Transformation
Healing
(All extremely welcomed)
Transformation
Healing
(All extremely welcomed)
Another plot point from THE MATRIX (1999)
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Another plot point from THE MATRIX (1999)
In a related thought, a pig-nosed drag queen named Jennifer Hamiston?
There’s something deeply uncanny about seeing certain Muppets’ full bodies
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
In a related thought, a pig-nosed drag queen named Jennifer Hamiston?
There’s something deeply uncanny about seeing certain Muppets’ full bodies
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
There’s something deeply uncanny about seeing certain Muppets’ full bodies
Bill just called it Cards Against the Humanities and I am WHEEZING
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Bill just called it Cards Against the Humanities and I am WHEEZING
THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS is an enemies-to-lovers romcom
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS is an enemies-to-lovers romcom
Reposted by Charles Jensen
We loved getting to hear Expo’s Managing Editor @annleee.bsky.social chat with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News about all things Expo! If you’re thinking of submitting or just want to learn more about Expo and our multi-genre goodness, listen here: open.substack.com/pub/litmagne....
"We Want to Feel Something." A Chat with Annlee Ellingson, Managing Editor of Exposition Review
"We publish everything."
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We loved getting to hear Expo’s Managing Editor @annleee.bsky.social chat with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News about all things Expo! If you’re thinking of submitting or just want to learn more about Expo and our multi-genre goodness, listen here: open.substack.com/pub/litmagne....
I've learned this is allegedly the set of the new JUMANJI
It’s already Christmas in LA, complete with (fake) snow
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I've learned this is allegedly the set of the new JUMANJI
I was over the moon to chat with the luminous and brilliant Kelly Foster Lindquist about her new memoir BEARD last night at Book Soup! This book is a powerful treatise on what love really is, and especially loving self and others with grace and kindness.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I was over the moon to chat with the luminous and brilliant Kelly Foster Lindquist about her new memoir BEARD last night at Book Soup! This book is a powerful treatise on what love really is, and especially loving self and others with grace and kindness.
Reposted by Charles Jensen
Grief is a form of truth-telling. It says, “Something mattered.”
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Grief is a form of truth-telling. It says, “Something mattered.”
It’s already Christmas in LA, complete with (fake) snow
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s already Christmas in LA, complete with (fake) snow
This essay by Jean Chen Ho was the perfect company for the sadness I'm marinating in. She is such a gem. lithub.com/jean-chen-ho...
Suddenly So Alone: Jean Chen Ho on Dislocation and Longing in Upstate New York
On Lunar New Year’s Day in 2024, I drove for two hours from Saratoga Springs, New York, to Dia Beacon, the contemporary art museum on the banks of the Hudson River. I wanted beauty. Tall trees stoo…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This essay by Jean Chen Ho was the perfect company for the sadness I'm marinating in. She is such a gem. lithub.com/jean-chen-ho...
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Clouds on the mountains made me happy today
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Clouds on the mountains made me happy today
Reposted by Charles Jensen
Spent this morning visiting the wonderful MFA students at Albertus Magnus College. I had so much fun talking with them and answering so many great questions.
I love talking with students — if you direct an MFA program and would like me to visit your class don’t hesitate to reach out.
I love talking with students — if you direct an MFA program and would like me to visit your class don’t hesitate to reach out.
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Spent this morning visiting the wonderful MFA students at Albertus Magnus College. I had so much fun talking with them and answering so many great questions.
I love talking with students — if you direct an MFA program and would like me to visit your class don’t hesitate to reach out.
I love talking with students — if you direct an MFA program and would like me to visit your class don’t hesitate to reach out.
This is the town where I went to high school 👀 wapo.st/47FDvtm
On edge in small-town America
In a divided nation, one Wisconsin village feels everyday life begin to fray.
wapo.st
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is the town where I went to high school 👀 wapo.st/47FDvtm
One time a celebrity with an extremely recognizable name called the office and said, "Hello, my name is _____, an actress in LA" and I think about that level of humility all the time
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One time a celebrity with an extremely recognizable name called the office and said, "Hello, my name is _____, an actress in LA" and I think about that level of humility all the time
Software notification: "We've made it easier to--"
Narrator: They didn't
Narrator: They didn't
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Software notification: "We've made it easier to--"
Narrator: They didn't
Narrator: They didn't
What if we peed on the bugs
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What if we peed on the bugs
Welp (gift link) wapo.st/43rVKQr
House Democrats release Epstein email that claimed Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim
In the 2011 email, the disgraced financier wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims and that encounter “has never once been mentioned” by polic...
wapo.st
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Welp (gift link) wapo.st/43rVKQr