New Arrivals

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. Our featured items change week to week. Thanks to our man in Korea, Jack Large's efforts, you'll find a number of videos of your favorite Temple poets reading. We've also integrated links through out the site to our historical endeavor, The Poets Encyclopedia. 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.

News and Events

Charles Potts presented with Lifetime Achievment Award at Burning Word!

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 back for clips from Potts' reading and check out Paul Nelson's speech at the Burning Word website.

Charles Potts Reads

Thursday May 8th, 2008, Cover to Cover books, 1817 Main Street, Vancouver, Washington Charles Potts feature with an open mic

Friday May 9th, 2008, Kings Books, 7 PM Tacoma, Washington Charles Potts feature with an open mic

Return to Berkeley

Three days of great poets reading great poetry. Expect all the intensity of a flashback 30 years in the making. Some on these poets haven't read together since the 60's. This reunion of the Berkeley poets cannot be missed. Beg, borrow, or steal to get to Berkeley in May.

Sunday May 11th - 4:30 - 6:30 / Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery St., San Francisco / Hugh Fox, Richard Krech, Charles Potts, John Oliver Simon

Monday 5/12 - 7:30 - 9:00 / Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley / Charles Potts, John Oliver Simon, Richard Krech

Tuesday 5/13 - 5:30 - 8:00 / Albany Public Library, 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany / Alta, David Bromige, Richard Denner, Luis Garcia, Peter Koch, Caroline Maria Woods-Mejia.

The Poets Encyclopedia

The intention of the Poets' Encyclopedia is to provide an indefinitely expanding encyclopedic resource on contemporary human poetics; particularly that of independent and small press poets born after 1935. Each artist has a page with a short factual biography, bibliography, and in some cases a brief sampling of their work. Likewise, periodicals, publishers, and historical events also have pages featuring similar information. Also on each page are the reviews, essays, and/ or impressions of the featured poet that have been submitted by our contributors. The information on Poets' Encyclopedia is provided by contributors all over the world. These people provide us with relevant biographic and bibliographic information, reviews, essays, poetry, and links. Anyone who wishes to contribute an article or correct one we?ve posted here is encouraged to do so. Submissions are reviewed before they are posted. The Poets' Encyclopedia will not post any material that is irrelevant, racist, sexist, libelous, or poorly written.

The Temple Bookstore pays the bill for this endeavor and we've integrated links to the bios of poets through our site. So if you click someones name and you jump away to a biography, take a moment to soak in the lives of poets.

The Poets' Encylopedia

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, signing, 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.