Writer’s Day Camp with Charles Coe

Manship Artist Charles Coeis the author of three books of poetry: All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents, Picnic on the Moon, and Memento Mori, all published by Leapfrog Press. He is also author of Spin Cycles, a novella published by Gemma Media. Charles has been selected as a Boston Literary Light by the Associates of the Boston Public Library.

A short film by filmmaker Roberto Mighty, “Peach Pie,” based on his poem, “Fortress” has been shown at film festivals nationwide. Another short film, “Charles Coe: Man of Letters,” also by Roberto Mighty was named “Outstanding Documentary Short” at the 2020 Roxbury Film Festival.

Charles was a 2017 Artist-in-Residence for the city of Boston, where he created an oral history project focused on residents of Mission Hill. He is poetry editor of “Multiplicity,” an online literary journal published by Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Mass, and associate editor of “About Place,” an online literary journal published by Black Earth Institute. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the Boston Chapter of The National Writers Union, a labor union for free-lance writers and editors.