Quintessential Charles Potts
© 2024 Charles Potts
Trade Paperback | 6" x 9"
ISBN-13: 978-1-944234-58-4
"Every independent poet in America is within 6 degrees of Potts. They read with him or were published by him. They read with a poet who was published by him. They appeared in an anthology with a poet who reviewed the work of a poet who once carried Potts? hand-bag."
—Six Degrees from Charles Potts by Bree from her introduction to the Country Fried Panda Fest Poetry Anthology, Shelbyville, Kentucky June 9-11, 2023.
Charles Potts was born in Idaho Falls in 1943. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry. In addition to 35 of the adjacent 50 states, Potts has presented his work in Japan, China, The Republic of South Korea, Canada, and Croatia. He started the literary magazine Litmus in Berkeley, and ran The Temple bookstore in Walla Walla, Washington where he has been a resident for 45 years.