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’s writing is 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. He’s fulfilled when he sees that his work is provoking thought in his readers.
Ray has read around the state of North Carolina [USA] and Colorado [USA], and has been 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, and lives in Colorado Springs, USA. Ray holds two degrees, a Bachelors in Music Education, and is Nationally Certified as a Respiratory Care Therapist.
He has four books published by Newness Twoness Books,
“-ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Poems From The ‘Nam,” 2 volume set, 2nd Edition in 03/2019;
- “23, 18,” 118 pages, 2nd Edition in 02/2020;
-“FOR THE LOST AND LOVED,” 114 pages, 2021.
-A chapbook, “THE SCUPPERNONG WORKS” was published in August 2022;
-“THE IMPROMPTU, —of LOVE —of MUSIC” is published this past
October 2023, 86 pages;
-He has two other books he is presently seeking publication for:
‘WHITE DOG SPEAKING,” 88 pages; and his manuscript for his latest book,
“THE TAVERN ON OLD LOG CABIN ROAD”, is ready to be considered by publishers,
a 240 year poetic journal of one family’s experiences in rural North Carolina, USA.
Due to the pandemic, most of Ray’s public appearances are via electronic medium. Perhaps this will change soon. In the meantime, Ray is a Delegate to the 2024 Writer’s International Panorama Festival during this January. He participates regularly with several zoom poetic events worldwide. Some of his work has been published in American, Irish, English, India, Belgium, Pakistani, Italy, Greece, and Bali Literary Journals.
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