Charles Aaron Potts

Background

Potts, Charles Aaron was born on August 28, 1943 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States. Son of Verl S. and Sarah (Gray) Potts.

Education

Bachelor in English, Idaho State University, Pocatello, 1965.

Career

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 counter cultural hotbed of Berkeley, California. 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.

In the 80s Potts moved to Walla Walla, Washington where he later founded The Temple bookstore, Tsunami publishing, and The Temple Literary Magazine.

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.

Achievements

• Charles Aaron Potts has been listed as a notable Management executive, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Little Lord Shiva: The Berkeley Poems, 1968

    (This book is a reprint of the original 1969 Noh Direction...)

  • Lost River Mountain

    (Using geology, genealogy and geography, Charles Potts tra...)

  • How the South Finally Won the Civil War: And Controls the Political Future of the United States

    (The book is a fact based narrative, based on the historic...)

  • The Portable Potts

    ( For more than forty years, Charles Potts has remained t...)

  • Valga Krusa

    (There is a difference between a horror story and a terror...)

  • 100 Years in Idaho

    (The book is composed of recent poems about the author's f...)

  • Rocky Mountains Man

    (Book by Potts, Charles)

  • Laffing Water. Valga Krusa Volume 2. A Memoir of Berkeley
  • Loading Las Vegas
  • The Opium Must Go Thru
  • (Portable Potts) Author: Charles Potts published on (November, 2005)
  • How the South Finally Won the Civil War: And Controls the Political Future of the United States by Charles Potts (1995-03-15)
  • LITMUS: The Poetry Paper - No. 12

Membership

Republican to Executive Committee 5th Congressional District, Washington State Democratic Party, 1993-1995. Member Italian Heritage Association (ice cream chair 1990, award 1993), Pacific N.W. Booksellers Association, Walla Walla Area Chamber of Commerce, Downtown W2 Foundation, Blue Mountain Arts Alliance, Fukuoka International Forum, Chinese Language Computer Society, Society Neurolinguistic Programming (master practitioner), Toastmasters.

Interests

• Avocations: tennis, raspberries.

Connections

Married Judith Samimi, 1977 (divorced 1986). 1child, Emily Karen; married Ann Weatherill, June 19, 1988. 1 child, Natalie Larise.

Father:

Verl S. Potts

Mother:

Sarah (Gray) Potts

Spouse:

Judith Samimi

Spouse:

Ann Weatherill

child:

Emily Karen Potts

child:

Natalie Larise Potts