Bio

Poet and Visual Artist

Charlie Becker is a poet and visual artist who has been studying and writing with the Community Literature Initiative in Los Angeles for the past eight years.

He has performed or read at open mics throughout Los Angeles and Pasadena, and his first book of poems and drawings, “Friends My Poems Gave Me”, was published in collaboration with World Stage Press in 2016. Charlie’s poems tend to be about nature, art, and issues that impact LGBT-Q seniors. Many of his poems have also been inspired by his special education students or children who have language and speech disorders; Charlie recently retired after working as a speech pathologist for more than 30 years.

Some of his poems have been published in The Comstock Review, Quiet Diamonds (Orchard Street Press), Passager Journal, The Dandelion Review, Silver Pinion, Months to Years, and Oyster River Pages.

Presently, Charlie lives with his partner, Aubry, in Laguna Woods, California, where he writes and draws as he takes walks or works in his garden.