Charles Entrekin was born in 1941 in Birmingham, Alabama. He took his BA inEnglish from Birmingham Southern College in 1964. He left Birmingham in 1965 andlived in various states (New York, Tennessee, Alabama, and Montana) while pursuingadvanced degrees in philosophy and creative writing. Arriving in California in 1969, hefell in love with the West Coast scene and the Hotel California experience: "you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave."Charles has taught at almost every educational level. He taught pre-school languageskills to six-year-olds with he Head Start program in Birmingham, Alabama; taughtintroduction to set theory to disadvantaged high school graduates with the Upward BoundProgram in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; taught composition, English literature, creative writing,and philosophy at the college level; and was the founder of the Creative Writing Program at John F. Kennedy University's Orinda, California campus.For 24 years, Charles was the managing editor of The Berkeley Poets Cooperative andThe Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press. The story of the Berkeley Poets Workshop &Press was written up as the cover story in the August 29, 1976 issue of the New YorkTimes Magazine.Charles is currently the Managing Editor of Hip Pocket Press (www.hippocketpress.com)and Co-Editor of the ezine Sisyphus.He is the author of: (Ed.) Berkeley Poets Cooperative: A History of the Times (Hip Pocket Press, 2013)Listening: New and Selected Work (Poetic Matrix Press, 2010); a novel, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, 1965 (El Leon Literary Arts, 2008); poetry collections, In This Hour (BPW&P, 1990); Casting For The Cutthroat & Other Poems (BPW&P, 1986); Casting For The Cutthroat (Thunder City Press, 1978); All Pieces Of A Legacy, (BPW&P, 1975) He is the father of five children and lives in the Bay Area with his wife, poet Gail Rudd Entrekin.