My special guest on the Tuesday, April 2, 2024, episode of the QLPORYT podcast will be acclaimed poet and author Ray Whitaker, featured in this quintessential poetry podcast conversation exploring his evolving creative journey and literary expression. Ray has been writing both prose and poetry since he was seventeen. What Ray is writing now is very different from what he wrote 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 fulfi ...