The North Carolina Writers Network-West and The Brandy Bar + Cocktails presents H.R. (RANDY) SPENCER & RICHARD ALLEN TAYLOR as next in their series “In the Company of Writers.”

The program offers a series of personal and conversational dialogues featuring guest writers/poets followed by an open mic forum. These inspirational gatherings will elucidate and entertain those attending. The guest author speaks from 7-8 PM with an open mic from 8 -9 PM. Sign-ups for the open mic will be located at the entrance to the reading.
H. R. “Randy” Spencer is a physician whose career has focused on public mental health services for children and youth. He also received an MFA in Poetry from the University of South Carolina. Published in a number of journals and several anthologies, he has twice read at Piccolo Spoleto and been interviewed on PBS’s “By the River.” His previous collection, “The Color After Green,” is a collection of environmentally inspired poems, and his current book, “Andersonville: the Poem,” is an historical study in poetry of the tragedy at Andersonville Military Prison in 1864. His current work-in-progress centers on the war in Ukraine, as witnessed from this country, and is both a picture of the horror on the ground and of the political web that surrounds the American response.
Richard Allen Taylor is the author of several poetry collections including Letters to Karen Carpenter and Other Poems, Armed and Luminous, Punching Through the Egg of Space, and a chapbook, Something to Read on the Plane, all published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company. His poems, articles and reviews appear in numerous publications including Rattle, Comstock Review, The Pedestal, Litmosphere, Gyroscope Review, Yellow Mama, Pinesong, Flying South, and South Carolina Review, various anthologies and at least two textbooks. Several of his poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes or Best of the Net. Richard formerly served as review editor for The Main Street Rag and co-editor of Kakalak. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and currently resides in the Greenville, SC area.
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