Charles Plymell (born April 26, 1935, in Holcomb, Kansas) is a poet, novelist, and small press publisher.

Charley Douglass Plymell was born in Finney County, Kansas during the worst dust storms of that time.

His grandfather, Charley Plymell, was deeded a homestead in Apache Palo lands by President Grover Cleveland.

His Vortex is spiritual/mythical and based on when he heard the Voice of the Game Lord, which he later authenticated through his mentor and influence, Loren Eiseley.

His other influences included Hart Crane, Ezra Pound, Robert Ronnie Branaman, and Samuel Coleridge.

He has been writing poems used as songs by Andrea Schroeder (Berlin); Mike Watt & Sam Dook (U.K.) They recently[when?]

He has also written songs for Clubberlanggang, and is working on a book with his poems for Neal Cassady and Bob Branaman put to rockabilly by Bloodshot Bill of Norton Records.