Uncle Charles was born in Jacksonville, Florida, where he still lives with his daughter and her husband, and three stray cats he adopted over the years.
Hearing-impaired (a family trait), little Charles grew up at the back of classrooms, learning mostly from reading an eclectic choice of literature: nursery rhymes, fantasy and adventure comics, and later from listening to country songs.
Leaving school at sixteen, he went from job to job, ending up a qualified sheet metal worker, while still juggling words in his mind and writing his ‘little poems’ on pieces of paper.
Buying his first computer was a wonderful discovery. Charles taught himself to type, learned the workings of the internet… and started posting his ‘little poems’ on the specialised poetry site allpoetry.com.
A few years and hundreds of ‘little poems’ later, Uncle Charles keeps writing his highly motivating poems, as well as encouraging younger writers. As he likes to say, everyone has a grandmother who likes what they are writing. Most of them have only an ‘Uncle Charles’ though, and that is what every budding poet needs.
