Charles Freeland lives in Dayton, Ohio. A 2008 Recipient of an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, he is the author of the book-length poem Eros & (Fill in the Blank) (BlazeVOX Books, 2009), the collection Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro (Otoliths Books, 2009), as well as the chapbooks Chilean Sea Bass is Really Just Patagonian Toothfish (Differentia Press, forthcoming), Eulalie & Squid (Chippens Press, 2009), Furiant, Not Polka (Moria, 2008), The Case of the Danish King Halfdene (Mudlark, 2008), and Where We Saw Them Last (Lily Press, 2007).

His work has appeared in many literary journals, both in print and on-line, including ditch, Jubilat, The Iowa Review, Moria, Main Street Rag, Sous Rature, The Mid-American Review, eskimo pie,   SUB-LIT, BlazeVOX, MiPOesias, Spinning Jenny, Thirteen Myna Birds, The Threepenny Review, Mad Hatters Review, Knock, new south, Margie, Otoliths, Cream City Review, Bombay Gin, Fact-Simile, Offcourse, 580 Split, The Hollins Critic, Painted Bride Quarterly, Harpur Palate, Juked, 42opus, Poetry International, The Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, Counterexample Poetics, Tusculum Review, Poetry Northwest, Shadowtrain, Carolina Quarterly, and Great Works.

His poem "The Case of the Danish King Halfdene" was recently listed on Web Del Sol's Escene 38: Best of the Literary Journals. 

Click here to read his review of Jamey Dunham's The Bible of Lost Pets.

Click here to read Travis Macdonald's review of Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro on the Fact-Simile blog.

Click here to read Lisa Mahle-Grisez's review of Eros & (Fill in the Blank).

 
His blog is Spring Cleaning in the Labyrinth of the Continuum.



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