New Arrivals

Inside Idaho - Poems 1996-2007
by Charles Potts

What the Master Does Not Speak Of
by Jeremy Gaulke

Was Chicken Trax Amid Sparrows Tread: Poems and One Long Movement
by Bree

Charles Potts' Valga Krusa in two volumes

The Golden Calves
by The Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band

Charles Bukowski at the Underwater Poetry Festival - 1974

Kiot
by Charles Potts

The Portable Potts
by Charles Potts

Books by Charles Potts

Across the North Pacific
by Charles Potts

Angio Gram
by Charles Potts

Compostrella/ Starfield
by Charles Potts

The Dictatorship of the Environment
by Charles Potts

Fascist Haikus
by Charles Potts

How the South Finally Won the Civil War
by Charles Potts

Little Lord Shiva
by Charles Potts

Loading Las Vegas
by Charles Potts

Lost River Mountain
by Charles Potts

Lucintite™
by Charles Potts

Nature Lovers
by Charles Potts

100 Years in Idaho
by Charles Potts

A Rite to the Body
by Charles Potts

Slash and Burn
by Charles Potts and Robert McNealy

Welcome to the Temple Bookstore Online.

The Temple Bookstore has gotten a face lift. We've trimmed down our inventory but you'll notice there are a number of new features here at the Temple Bookstore. Thanks to our man in Korea, Jack Large's efforts, you'll find a number of videos of your favorite Temple poets reading. We'll also be integrated links through out the site to a digitized version of the Temple Magazine. Eventually all 21 Issues will be available in full online. We're also salvaging some of the biographical information from the Poets' Encyclopedia to enhance our digital Temple. So look around, buy some books, and check back often. There's always something new to see at the Temple Bookstore. You can order books with your credit or debit card through Paypal or order the old fashion way by printing this PDF Order Form and sending it over by post.

News and Events

The Score in Berkeley

Harold Adler showed up at the BBQ the day before the Kaboom! Berkeley Reunion readings with a DVD of footage he shot 40 years ago at the COSMEP Poetry Conference. The footage is excellent but unfortunately didn't come with sound. So we took a snip of Charles Potts reading from Valga Krusa at Bird and Beckett Bookstore to see how it would line up with the video evidence. Check it out below and read the rest of the story. Buy Valga Krusa here.

8MM COSMEP footage shot by Harold Adler 1968

Charles Potts presented with Lifetime Achievment Award at Burning Word!

Paul Nelson honoring Charles Potts with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Burning Word last April.

The Washington Poets' Association honored Charles Potts with the Lifetime Achievment Award at the Burning Word Poetry Festival! And we got the whole thing on tape. Check out Paul Nelson's speech at the Burning Word website.

The Poets Encyclopedia

The Poets' Encyclopedia lost its moderator and will no longer be accepting entries. We're keeping the parts that relate to the digital Temple and will be building on that. So in the mean time consider the whole mess under reconstruction.

Video Evidence...

...of great poetry. Thanks to Jack Large, our man in Korea's tireless efforts, the Temple has access to dozens of videos of our poets reading, talking, singing, dancing, and wandering. Scattered throughout the site are YouTube videos and here on the main page you'll find a new featured video every week. This week we're featuring Stephen Thomas, reading at the Walla Walla Poetry Party in 2003. Check back for more videos, or visit Jack's YouTube website.