ABOUT CHARLES WATERS

  • Children’s Poet, Actor, Educator.
     
    Co-Author (with Irene Latham) of multiple books including     CAN I TOUCH YOUR HAIR?     Poems of Race, Mistakes and Friendship and DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD: Poems, Quotes and Anecdotes from A- Z and BE A BRIDGE.  All three are published by Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group.

    The third of our four books is AFRICAN TOWN published by Penguin Random House. 
     
    I’ve been published in textbooks and anthologies including: THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOK OF ANIMAL POETRY edited by J. Patrick Lewis (former Children’s Poet Laureate of the United States.) AMAZING PLACES edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins, ONE MINUTE TILL BEDTIME edited by Kenn Nesbitt (former Children’s Poet of the United States) and THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY SERIES edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong.
     
    I perform powerpoint presentations about my life and career as well as having a poetry writing and performance component that aligns with the Common Core Curriculum.
     
    Proudly represented by Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio, Inc. West Tilbury, MA. 

     
     
     

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ARTIST STATEMENT

  • I write and perform children’s poems to learn more about myself and the world around me.  If I stop doing this, I cease to exist. It is my mission to have the world realize the simile and metaphoric wonders that lie within them.


    “Believe 
    that you have it,
    and you have it.”

    – Latin Proverb

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