Seating Available for about 40 people or your own outdoor chairs.
Ray Whitaker
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 four books published, and two chapbooks. His work has been published in eleven different countries.
Ray was a Delegate to the 2024 Writer’s International Panorama Festival this past January. 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. In July he is the reading featured poet in David Leo Sirois’ Spoken World Online, associated with Spoken Word Paris.
Diane Freed
As a youngster, Diane wrote stories from her imagination and illustrated them in crayon. She called them “books” and still has some of them. She went on to major in English in High School with the goal of becoming an author. After attending a couple of year at Pikes Peak State College, she experienced motherhood while selling her art and started two businesses.