Charles Harper Webb

Biography

Charles Harper Webb’s latest book of poems, Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies, was published in 2001 by BOA Editions, Ltd. In 2002, the University of Iowa Press published Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology, edited by Webb. Recipient of grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim foundations, he teaches at California State University, Long Beach.

See Work

POETRY / Summer 2003

A Meal Not Eaten

By Charles Harper Webb
Autumn 1997

One Story

By Charles Harper Webb
Autumn 1997

Pilgrimage

By Charles Harper Webb
POETRY / Summer 1999

Funktionslust

By Charles Harper Webb

The Germans have a word for it, the pleasure
in what one does best. Don’t fret the accent;

POETRY / Spring 2002

Passing Notes

By Charles Harper Webb

While Miss Capp, older than the Constitution,
droned of checks and balances, I dutifully
filled my notebook (college-lined), and prayed

Summer 2003

The Open-Air Concert Survived A Shaky Start

By Charles Harper Webb