Matt Briggs posted an interview today with poet and Temple Bookstore founder Charlie Potts over at Reading Local Seattle.

Potts talks about a reading series he started in 1967 called "The Theodore Roethke Gladness Wakes" at the Zig Zag Gallery and Pot Shop in the Pike Place Market, and about a class he co-taught called "Poetry-Language-Now" at the Free University Seattle:

Edward Smith... taught for the first quarter on the living room floor of The Magic Mountain, Miriam Radar’s father’s place, he was a wheel in the Philosophy department at UDUB. Edward had real gravitas, having just returned from Vietnam, and quickly hit his stride as a poet. Eventually we will bring his work back into print. Later the course migrated to my apartment in Belltown, 2224 ½ 2nd Avenue. I even wrote later some 2nd Avenue poems ala Frank O’Hara. Edward in his prescient way, said Seattle won’t amount to anything until it has a scene in Belltown.

Potts reading "Silver Winged Shit" at a poetry conference in the late '60s (from Temple Bookstore):

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