Raven Drake is originally from Boston. Nine years ago he moved to Grant County, New Mexico where the mountains and open spaces have provided him with a great deal of inspiration. He started conjuring poetry when he was eleven years old. Within recent years his explorations of mythology and etymology have helped to fuel his writing ambitions.
Mr. Drake’s work has been featured in the 2004 Ink Spot Anthology of Poets, Las Cruces Poets and Writers Magazine, Tales of the Talisman, the Fall 2006 edition of Illumen magazine, the March 2007 edition of the ezine Aoife’s Kiss, and the Summer 2008 edition of the webzine La Lune Bleue Planete. Some of his newer material will be featured in the April and June 2009 editions of Decanto magazine, the June and December 2009 editions of Apollo’s Lyre and the August and October 2010 editions of Decanto.
Raven has held readings at the Silver City Public Library, the Bullard Street Bazaar, Jess Gorell’s Studio Space and Gallery, Isaac’s Bar and Grill, the Marshall Memorial Library in Deming, Air Café in Bayard and the Casa de la Cultura en Santa Clara.
His work reflects an ongoing exploration of and fascination with assorted mythic realms, and multi-dimensions of the imagination. For years, he’s been interested in poetry as an act of conjuration or spellcraft, taking as a given that archetypal space/time is fully inhabited with various aspects of the soul/self.
He is currently working on a more articulate vision of the myriad paradoxes and enigmas that exist within that barely visible continuum, giving shape to various psychic forces and attempting to manifest the often unseen, calling forth the unknown and perhaps unknowable into the realm of the known.
5 Mar
RAVEN DRAKE, Featured Poet for Spring 2011
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