"The Current Above" with Charles Watts + Open mic

Charles Watts will read from his new book of poems, "The Current Above," with an open mic to follow.

"I started writing the material for The Current Above at the beginning of COVID. A year later, I was diagnosed with cancer. For the last four years, I have concentrated on a re-evaluation of the things in life that depress, impress, shame, delight, and make me contemplate the meaning of the jumble that turned me into a happy but imperfect person. Upbeat, downbeat, it’s all good!"

Early in his career, Watts had an underground play (“Visigoths”) produced in Los Angeles, which led to scriptwriting contracts for several TV series, including “Kojack” and “Here Come the Brides.” He fled Hollywood, got an MFA in poetry, and went to Iran to teach literature at several Universities. For five years, he edited Seizure, a magazine of poetry and fiction. He has also been a cab driver, social worker, refugee worker in camps in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Costa Rica, and owner of a tour company. His poems and stories have been anthologized in “Road Poets,” “Adirondack Epiphanies,” “Schroon River Anthology,” “Northern Oracle,” and “Karma in the High Peaks,” which received the “People’s Choice Award” for best book of 2010 from the Adirondack Center for Writing. His poems won the Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize (2015 - Poetry Society of South Carolina) and first place at the North Country Writers Festival twice. His books include “The Current Above" (poems), “Waking Up in a Beautiful Room” (poems), “Raptures” (short stories), “Cure Cottage” (1 act plays), and “The Road to Swat” (a chapbook of travel tales). He splits his time between Charleston, SC and Lake Placid, NY.

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