Upcoming Events

Selected Past Events: 

2018
Tuesday, February 20, 7 pm
Reading with Nancy Carol Moody
Windfall Reading series
Eugene Public Library 
Eugene, OR

Thursday, March 8, 7 pm
Reading with Donald Levering
Salem Poetry Project
Barrel & Keg
1190 Broadway St. NE, Salem, OR

Saturday, April 14, 3 pm
Reading at Lan Su Chinese Garden
239 NW Everett St.
Portland, OR

  2017
Sunday, August 6, 2 pm
Mid-Valley Poetry Society: "Poetry in Performance" with Clemens Starck,
​Stayton, OR

   2016
Friday, October 21, 7:30 pm
Eugene Natural History Society
Forest Under Story reading and discussion
177 Lawrence Hall, UO

Friday, October 28, 7 pm
The Magic Barrel: A Reading to Hunger
Whiteside Theater, 361 SW Madison, Corvallis         2015
Friday, September 18, 2015
Keynote talk / reading: "Dispatches from the Garden"
WSU 2015 Master Gardener Advanced-Education Conference
Vancouver, WA

            2014
Saturday, November 15, 7 pm
Reading with Clem Starck
Stevenson Community Library
120 NW Vancouver Ave., Stevenson, WA

February 26 - March 1
AWP conference
Seattle, WA

            2013
May 2-4
Charles keynote the Northwest Poets Concord
Newport, OR

May 15-18
Skagit Poetry Festival
LaConnor, WA

Saturday, June 14, 2011
reading and workshop
Mt. Shasta, CA

Friday, April 9, 2010
Going to Seed--Book Launch!
Troubadour Music, 521 SW 2nd St., Corvallis, OR

Thursday, April 22, 2010, Eugene, OR
DIVA, 110 W. Broadway

Saturday, May 8, 2010, Newport, OR
Poets' Concord

Thursday, May 27, 7 pm, Portland, OR
Reading with Bill Siverly
Looking Glass Bookstore
7983 SE 13th Ave

June 4-5, Mt. Shasta, CA
Reading and workshop
check back for time and location


July 11-16, Fishtrap, Wallowa Lake, OR
Charles will be teaching the Fishtrap Outpost Nature Writing Workshop
For information or to regsiter: www.fishtrap.org

July 16-18, Fishtrap Gathering, Wallowa Lake, OR
Readings, discussions, music
FMI: www.fishtrap.org

Fishtrap, Wallowa Lake, OR, July 2009
Fishtrap Nature Writer in Residence

Nature of Words, Bend, Oregon, November 4-8, 2009
Workshops and reading


University of Nevada, Reno, Monday, October 16, 2007    
Poetry reading and discussion

Fishtrap, Wallowa Lake, Oregon, July 14, 2007
Poetry reading 

Oregon State Poetry Association, Waldport, Oregon, October 14, 2006
Poetry reading 

Silverton Poetry Festival, Silverton, Oregon, April 16, 2005
Poetry reading

Mt. Shasta Writers Series, Mt. Shasta, California, October 22, 2005
workshop and reading with Clem Starck

Wordstock Writers Festival, Portland, Oregon, April 23, 2005
Creative non-fiction reading

Writers on the Edge, Newport, Oregon, March 20, 2004  
Reading with Molly Gloss

Hardy Plant Society of Oregon – Study Weekend
Reed College, Saturday, June 28, 2003
Poetry reading and book signing


Saturday, November 15, 7 pm
Reading with Clem Starck
Stevenson Community Library
120 NW Vancouver Ave., Stevenson, WA