Charles Potts

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Charles Potts (born August 28, 1943) is an American counter-culture poet. He is sometimes referred to as a projectivist poet and was mentored by Edward Dorn. Raised in rural Mackay, Idaho, Potts left Pocatello, Idaho and Idaho State University in the mid '60s and set out for Seattle, Mexico, and ultimately the location where he rose to literary prominence: the countercultural hotbed of Berkeley, California. [1]

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There, he founded the Litmus literary magazine and the Litmus publishing company, which published his friend Charles Bukowski's book "Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window". [2] Potts' gives an account of his time as a revolutionary hippie in the Berkeley poetry scene, and a psychotic breakdown he suffered there, in his two-part memoir Valga Krusa. [3]

In the '80s Potts moved to Walla Walla, Washington where he later founded The Temple bookstore, Tsunami Publishing, and The Temple Literary Magazine. [4] [5]

Potts' biography is also of record in the Marquis publications, Who's Who in America, 1977, Who's Who in the West, 1996, Who's Who in the World, 1996, and Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 1998.

Potts, better known as a poet, also won Manuscript's International's First Place Novel Award for Creative Excellence in 1991, for the Novel Loading Las Vegas. He was given a Distinguished Professional Achievement Award by the Alumni Association and the College of Arts and Sciences at Idaho State University in 1994. He has a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Washington Poets Association in 2008.

Also a singer/songwriter, Potts tapes and CDs recorded at Studio 13 in Salt Lake City and Bayside Audio in Austin, Texas, which is home to the Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band (named for him but in which he does not play) circulate underground. Various YouTube videos of his recordings were made by Bill Anderson.

A political and economic geographer, How the South Finally Won the Civil War: And Controls the Political Future of the United States, published in 1995, got a boost in recognition when the Harvard educated and Boston College professor of history, Heather Cox Richardson, published a similarly titled book, How the South Won the Civil War, with Oxford University Press in 2020.

Potts’ most recent book in The Fifth Convulsion: The Structure of American History.

Potts' collected works, letters, and publishing materials were housed in the archives of Utah State University's Merrill-Cazier Library in Logan, Utah in 2011. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Charles Potts Bio and Bibliography from Berkeley Daze, by Rychard Denner, Contents".
  2. ↑ Bukowski, Charles (1975). Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window. ISBN   0915214008.
  3. ↑ Potts, Charles (1977). Valga Krusa. ISBN   0915214199.
  4. ↑ "Books written or published by poet Charles Potts. Poetry". Archived from the original on 2007-10-04. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
  5. ↑ Charles Potts biography
  6. ↑ https://encore.lib.usu.edu/iii/encore/search/C__SCharles+Potts__Ff%3Afacetfields%3Aauthor%3Aauthor%3AAuthor%3A%3A__Orightresult?lang=eng&suite=def%5B%5D
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