Curriculum Vita Charles Potts P.O. Box 100 Walla Walla, WA 99362
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Curriculum Vita Charles Potts P.O. Box 100 Walla Walla, WA 99362-0033 [email protected] http://www.bluecreekappaloosas.webs.com Education: Mackay High School, Honor Graduate, Mackay, Idaho, 1961 BA English, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, 1965 Real Estate Institute, Real Estate Broker, Spokane, Washington, 1978 ATM, Accomplished Toastmaster, Toastmaster’s International, 1990 Master Practitioner, Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, 1991 Major Professional Accomplishments: Who’s Who in America, 1997-, Who’s Who in the West, 1996-, Who’s Who in the World, 1996-, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, 1998- Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Washington Poets Association, 2008 Temple Inc., non-profit Robert McNealy memorial sculpture for Ann Weatherill, Walla Walla College, The Ghost of Harrison Sheets, Jeremy Gaulke, 5 Speed, Klyd Watkins The Temple Bookstore.com, opened September 2001, fifty featured readers, 1,000s of poetry books. Tsunami Inc., founder and president, published: The Temple, a quarterly of contemporary poetry in Chinese, Spanish and English; an anthology, Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry; and first edition books, Journeyman by Stephen Thomas, This House: A Poem in Seven Books by Jim Bodeen, Open Spirit by Travis Catsull, Twilight of the Male Ego by klipschutz; and Outside the School of Theology by Teri Zipf, the 1998 winner of the William Stafford Memorial Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, Edward Dorn, Tour of Washington, Whitman College, Eastern Washington U., WSU, March 1999 Bumbershoot, Seattle Arts Festival, 1991, featured reader, 1993-97-98-99-02, translation panel, 1998 Jack Straw Foundation, Writer’s Program, Matt Briggs curator, Seattle, WA, 2007 Kenneth Patchen Festival, Cleveland, Ohio, 2007 Midwest Tour, 2001, Detroit, Lansing, Michigan & Toledo, Columbus, Cleveland, Kent, Ohio Southwest Tour, 2002, Las Cruces, El Paso, Bisbee, Prescott, Salt Lake City, Pocatello, Boise, Twin Falls Walla Walla Poetry Party, Walla Walla, Washington, 1990-91-92-93-96-97-2003-2005 Burning Word, Washington State Poets Association, Whidbey Island, featured poet, April, 2005 Super Bowl of Poetry, Auburn, Washington, Finalist, 2003, featured presenter,1999 Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada, featured performer, 1997, 1990 Fukuoka International Forum, “The American Budget Crisis” and “The 1996 American National Elections,” Brighton College, Fukuoka, Japan, 1995-1996 Japan’s Political Choices, The Kyushu Gleaner, newspaper column, Fukuoka, Japan 1995-1997 Distinguished Professional Achievement Award, College of Arts and Sciences of Idaho State University, 1994 Washington State Democratic Party, 5th Cong. District Rep. to the Executive Committee, 1993-1996 LitEruption, featured reader, Portland, Oregon’s premier literary festival 1992 2 Potts CV Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Presenter, International Convention, Snowbird, Utah, 1991 Manuscript’s International, First Place Novel, for Loading Las Vegas, $2,500, creative excellence, 1991 Creativity Symposium, Walla Walla Symphony Diamond Jubilee with Alan Hovaness, Whitman College, 1981 The Poetry of Charles Potts, a book by Professor Hugh Fox of Michigan State Univ., Dustbooks, 1979 Idaho Governor's Council on the Arts, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 1978 Columbia River Watch, The National Endowment for the Humanities, at Lewis and Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, Sandpoint, Idaho, and Athlemere, British Columbia, 1977-1978 Litmus Inc., founder and director, published 18 first editions by Charles Bukowski, Richard Krech, Jo Merrill, Karen Waring, Peter Koch, David Hiatt; first books by Andrew Clausen, Mike Finley, Charles Foster, Charley George, Edward Smith, Greg Stewart and Nolan Palmer; 12 periodical issues, 1967-1977 Oasis, host of poetry radio program, KUER-NPR, Salt Lake City, 1966-1977 Edward Dorn & Carl Rakosi, Presented by Litmus Inc. at the U of Utah, Salt Lake, 1976 Southwest Poetry Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, & Tsaile, Arizona, 1974-1975 Underwater Festival, Alta, Charles Bukowski, Ricardo Sánchez, Abelardo Delgado, Sandy Anderson, Harris Lenowitz, Andrew Clausen, Charley George, 20 other poets, Salt Lake City, 1974 Play No Play, by Reza Baraheni, Iranian Exile Poet, world premier, at the Salt Lake City Public Library, 1973 Trubador Poetry Festival, Salt Lake City. 20 poets at Yarrow Books, the Library, Westminster College, 1972 Hot Air, Transcontinental Poetry Tour by Buddhist Marching Band, with John Thomsen, 1971 COSMEP, one of the founding editors at the University of California, Berkeley, California, 1968 The Theodore Roethke Gladness Wakes, poetry festival, Zig Zag Pot shop, Seattle City Market, 1967 Selected Publications: Books: Coyote Highway, Green Panda Press, Pleasureville, Henry County, Kentucky, 2016 Pilgrim and Martell, Least Bittern Books, Pleasureville, Henry County, Kentucky, 2015. The Source, Green Panda Press, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 2014 Inside Idaho, West End Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2009 The Yellow Christ, vol 1 of Valga Krusa, Green Panda Press, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 2007 Laffing Water, vol 2 of Valga Krusa, Green Panda Press, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 2007 The Portable Potts, West End Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2005 Kiot: Selected Early Poems, 1963-1977, Blue Begonia Press, Yakima, Washington, 2005 Greatest Hits, 1963-2003, Pudding House Publications, Columbus, Ohio, 2005 Compostrella/Starfield, Time Barn Books, Nashville, Tennessee, 2004 Across the North Pacific, Slough Press, College Station, Texas, 2002 Lucintite TM, Butcher Shop Press, Oneonta, New York 2002 Slash and Burn, Blue Begonia Press, with Robert McNealy, Yakima, Washington, 2001 Prophet/Profit, Poetnoise, with Chris Bodor, Beacon, New York, 2001 Nature Lovers, Pleasure Boat Studio, Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2000 Angio Gram, D Press, Sebastopol, California, 2000 Little Lord Shiva: The Berkeley Poems, 1968, Glass Eye Books, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1999 Lost River Mountain, Blue Begonia Press, Yakima, Washington, 1999 Fascist Haikus, Acid Press, Pocatello, Idaho, 1999 100 Years in Idaho, Tsunami Inc., Walla Walla, Washington, 1996 3 Potts CV How the South Finally Won the Civil War, Tsunami Inc., 1995 Loading Las Vegas, Current, Walla Walla, Washington, 1991 The Dictatorship of the Environment, Druid Books, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1991 A Rite to the Body, Ghost Dance Press, East Lansing, Michigan, 1989 Rocky Mountain Man, (Selected Poems) The Smith, New York City, 1978 Valga Krusa, Litmus Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, 1977 The Opium Must Go Thru, Litmus Inc., with illustrations by Robert McNealy, 1976 Charlie Kiot, Folk Frog Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976 The Golden Calf, Litmus Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, 1975 The Trancemigraçion of Menzu, Empty Elevator Shaft Press, San Francisco, 1973 Waiting in Blood, Rainbow Resin Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1973 Blue up the Nile, Quixote, Madison, Wisconsin, 1972 The Litmus Papers, Gunrunner Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1969 Little Lord Shiva, Noh Directions, Berkeley, California, 1969 Burning Snake, Presna de Lagar, Portland, Oregon, 1967 Blues From Thurston County, Grande Ronde Press, La Grande, Oregon, 1966 Anthologies: Jack Straw Writers Anthology, Jack Straw Foundation, Seattle, Washington, 2007 Poet’s Book-Shelf, The Barnwood Press, Selma, Indiana, 2005 Poetnoise 2000, Poetnoise, Beacon, New York, 2001 Vox Populi, Eleventh Hour Productions, Seattle Poetry Festival, 2000 The Living Underground: Prose, Whitston Publishing Company, Troy, New York, 1999 Portland Lights, Nine Lights Press, Portland, Oregon, 1999 Will Work for Peace, Zeropanik Press, Middletown, New York, 1999 Maverick Western Verse, Peregrine Smith, Layton, Utah, 1994 Men of our Time, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1992 The Proceedings (of the 3rd Walla Walla Poetry Party), Walla Walla, Washington, 1992 Image, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington, 1991 Writer's Northwest Handbook, 4th Edition, Media Weavers, Beaverton, Oregon, 1991 Idaho's Poetry, a Centennial Anthology, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 1988 Cafe Solo, Solo Press, Atascadero, California, 1988 Gargoyle Fiction '84, Paycock Press, Washington, D.C., 1984 A Critical (Ninth) Assembling (Precisely: 6789), Richard Kostelanetz, editor, New York, 1979 Turpentin on the Rocks, Marlo Verlag, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1978 The Face of Poetry, Gallimaufry Press, Arlington, Virginia, 1977 The Far Side of the Storm, San Marcos, Los Cerillos, New Mexico, 1975 The Smith/17, The Smith, New York City, 1975 Hellcoal Annual 3, Hellcoal, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1973 Trubador Anthology, Rainbow Resin / Folk Frog Presses, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1972 The Living Underground, Whitston Press, Troy, New York, 1972 The Anthology, (of poems read at first COSMEP conference), Berkeley, California, 1969 Do You Want to be in Our Zoo Too, Zoo Press, Pocatello, Idaho, 1966 Selected Periodicals: 4 Potts CV Arthur, Wild Dog, West Coast Review, The Journal of Property Management, www.thundersandwich.com, Aldebaran Review, New American & Canadian