Charles Chase earned a BS in English Literature from the University of Connecticut in his early twenties, then began a career in business as a manager, trainer, Materials specialist and technical writer. He authored the AMES Just-In-Time manual for APICS (now called the Association for Supply Chain Management) and earned an MS in Manufacturing Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After retiring, he served several years as president of the Norwich Arts Center.
During this time, Chase continued to pursue his interest in writing by taking courses at the New School and in the Wesleyan University Graduate Liberal Studies Program. He has been a member of several writers’ groups and organizations, including a four-year stint as president of the Middletown Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society. With his colleague Faith Vicinanza, he brought slam poetry to Connecticut, setting up more than a dozen venues across the state in the first year. Chase and Vicinanza collaborated on an anthology of Connecticut slam poetry, Jam the Slam, published by Singular Street Press. Chase competed on the Connecticut Slam Poetry team in the International Poetry Slam in San Francisco.
Chase has run numerous writers’ retreats and taught classes and workshops in creative writing in colleges and other venues. His poems and prose poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, won prizes, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A chapbook, Little Book Poems and Other Things from the Connecticut Shore, was published by Hanover Press, and another small chapbook, Folded Gallery #2, was published by Plinth Press. More recently, Chase self-published four volumes of his poetry, each with the title Runway Lights. These are available on Amazon.
