Ray Whitaker

Working on getting my poems published all over the world.

Ray has been writing both prose and poetry since he was seventeen. What Ray is writing now is very different from what he wrote those so many years ago.  All writers and poets are writing out of "the Self" however there are directions that the self speaks into, that change. Now Ray is attempting to put foremost in his work, just who he is writing for.  He intends on writing for the everyday man and woman. He firmly believes that poems need to reach into the everyday person's pictures in their minds, and engage with those. This is where he aims to make a difference in his creative writing. Ray does readings around the state of North Carolina [USA], and is a member or the North Carolina Poetry Society, the Winston-Salem Writers, and The North Carolina Writer’s Network. He has thrice been a ‘Writer-in-Residence” at the North Carolina Center For The Arts and Humanities, at Weymouth, in Southern Pines,NC. He is the father of two daughters. Originally from the South, he now lives in Colorado, where he is seeking venues.

He has thee books published,
--“ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Poems From The ‘Nam,” Volumes one and two, 2nd Edition, 2019;
--“23, 18,” 106 pages, 2nd Edition, 2020;
--“FOR THE LOST AND LOVED,” 124 pages, 2021
—THE SCUPPERNONG WORKS, a chapbook, 2022
He has one other manuscript he is presently seeking publication for: ‘WHITE DOG SPEAKING,” 102 pages, 2021and He is working on his fifth Book now. Some of his work has been published in American, Irish, English, Nederland, and Bali Literary Journals.