Wayne Ray
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Wayne Scott Ray (born 1950 in Alabama) is a Canadian poet and photographer.
Ray is the founder of HMS Press publishing, the Multicultural Poetry Reading Series (University of Toronto), Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Contest, co-founder of the Canadian Poetry Association and co-chairman of the League of Canadian Poets: Associates (Toronto) for 1985/1986. He worked at the time for the University of Toronto as Head Gardener and Grounds Foreman at the U of T Presidents Estate. He was instrumental in helping establish the [London Arts Council] and was the Literary Committee Chair and past president of the New London Arts Festival for 1995.
Ray has several books of poetry and non-fiction published as well as credits in anthologies, periodicals, journals and newspapers across Canada between 1983 and 2006.
Ray grew up on the American Air Force base Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador and was in Boy Scout Troop 6 there. After moving to Woodstock, Ontario in 1965, he and his brother Cris became Lone Scouts and in 1968 Ray received both his Eagle Scout and Queen's Scout awards while attending Troop 11 in Woodstock.
Works
- 1983: Suburban Eyes, HMS Press, ISBN 091995703X
- 1983: Arboreta and Botanical Gardens of Canada, HMS Press, ISBN 0919957013
- 1984: Auschwitz, Unfinished Monument Press, ISBN 0920976212
- 1985: The Captain, HMS Press, ISBN 0919957137
- 1987: Uketorinin, Hamilton Haiku Press
- 1988: Arboreta and Botanical Gardens of Canada 2nd ed., HMS Press, ISBN 0919957250
- 1991: Beatrice Dickerskin, CPA (London) BookClub BookLits, ISBN 0919957323
- 1991: Writing Haiku: Shashin-Kaku Style, CPA (London) BookClub BookLits, ISBN 0919957404
- 1992: Giants of the North, Third Eye Press, ISBN 0919581781
- 1997: Regional Short Stories: The Literary Highway, ISBN 1552530094
- 2003: In A Dream, Mercutio Press, ISBN 0-973178-7-3
- 2004: She Cast No Shadow, Harmonia Press, ISBN 0968888526
- 2006: Going Down Goose Lane Toward Broken Jaw: Fredericton Poems & Stories, Harmonia Press, ISBN 0968888593
External links
- [Website]
- [History of the Canadian Poetry Association]
- [CanCon Interview with Wayne Ray]
- [Regional Short Stories]
- [Poet Guy]
- [Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Competition]
- [HMS Press Books]
- List of people from Alabama
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