About Charlie Becker
Charlie Becker is a retired special education teacher and speech pathologist who now studies, writes, and guest-lectures poetry with the Community Literature Initiative in Los Angeles. His poems are typically about art, nature, and friendships. Some of Charlie’s poems have been published by the following journals: The Comstock Review, Passager Journal, The Dandelion Review, Quiet Diamonds (Orchard Street Press), and Oyster River Pages. He lives in Laguna Woods, California.
A Poem's Medium
Release Date: August 15, 2022
A Poem's Medium is a collection of poems about art and how artwork such as paintings, drawings, photos, and sculptures can inspire the writing of poetry.
Gordon Blitz, the author of Shipped Off and Fathers and other Strangers, says of A Poem’s Medium: “This opulent chapbook plays with the language of art through metaphors and vibrant use of colors... When Becker writes about purple trunks, crimson bark, vermillion leaves, and turquoise water in “When I Sketch,” we can feel the osmosis of how his eyes capture pigments. My favorite poem, “Rockies Synesthete,” took me on a spiritual journey of sounds, hearing, silence, and loud that left me emotionally nourished. And I promise you that when you finish the collection, you’ll want to reread the poems to experience the joy that Charlie Becker has
showered upon us.”
Aubry Osborn, educator and memoirist, notes: “Charlie Becker is an artist who writes poems about art and a poet who creates art with his words. His love of art and his need to have art all around him comes through each of his poems. His hues sparkle while his brushwork sets images on the page as if it were a canvas. In his poem, “Rockies Synesthete,” Charlie liberates and uses his sense of hearing to create shapes and shades on the page as if he, like a true synesthete, can see sounds as colors, His work invites you to slow down and have a look around.”
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