Poetry Society of Tennessee member Ray Zimmerman’s latest poetry collection, It’s Just a Phase (Walnut Street Publishing), will launch on November 1, 2024. The event will be held at 6:00 PM at Clear Story Arts, 1673 S. Holtzclaw Avenue, Studio 14, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, thanks to Walnut Street Publishing.

About It’s Just a Phase

It’s Just a Phase by Ray Zimmerman is a collection of poems with accompanying illustrations by the author, whose accidental foray into a nature art class led him to a new form of expression. It is now available for pre-sale. Get your copy.

About Ray Zimmerman

Ray Zimmerman is a former Chattanooga Writer’s Guild president and Chattanooga Audubon Society president. He lives and writes in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 

Ray has published poems in Number One, a Volunteer State Community College publication, in Gallatin, Tennessee. They have also appeared in The Southern Poetry Anthology: Tennessee, Volume 6 from Texas Review Press, and the Mildred Haun Review, a Walters State Community College publication in Morristown, Tennessee. 

His feature articles have appeared in The Chattanooga Pulse, Photo Traveler (Los Angeles), The Journal of Interpretation (Fort Collins, Colorado), and The Hellbender Press (Knoxville). His essay on caregiving for an elderly parent appeared in Watershed Review, an online publication of California State University at Chico. His essay “How I Became a Poet” appeared in Waxing and Waning, Nashville. 

Further information is available on Ray’s website, https://rayzimmermanauthor.com.