Bio
ABOUT MY WORK
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 six books published, and two chapbooks. His work has been published in fourteen different countries. He’s working on two new manuscripts now.
Ray was a Delegate to the 2024 Writer’s International Panorama Festival this past January, and is a Delegate to this year’s 2025 Festival He participates regularly with several zoom poetic events worldwide. Among them, he has been spotlighted on a US National Poetry broadcast from Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio In April, ’24; and also an International Poetry Recital hosted by The Fertile Minds out of India this past April 19th, 2025. In May he was the reading featured poet in David Leo Sirois’ Spoken Word Online, associated with Spoken Word Paris. He is Moderator for Michael Lee Johnson’s FB “My Voice,Your Words- Poetry In Action” page; and Editor for Masticadores Canada Journal.
As an amateur photographer, Ray uses Olympus DLSRs exclusively. He has thousands of photos in his personal library. His first five book covers are photographs he has taken.
He can be found these places:
--Here: raywhitakerpoet.com
--on Facebook: Look for Whitjr1,
--AND: at Masticadores Canada International Literary Journal, https://masticadorescanada.wordpress.com/