As the title Here and There suggests, this collection of poems reflects the author’s years growing up on the New Hampshire seacoast, residing in southern New Hampshire and Vermont, and spending a lot of time “there” mostly in Turkey, Pakistan, and Viet Nam. But wherever Mother Nature has been the key player in these scenes.

Ray has enjoyed a long life as a teacher, traveler, author, editor, and publisher of English as a Second Language materials – always an educator. Throughout his career he has also very quietly been a poet, reflecting on his adventures and the world around him. This book is a collection of his favorite poems, so far.

About the Author

Ray Clark has called New Hampshire and Vermont home for most of the fifty years in the subtitle to this collection of poems. For all of those years, he was at The School for International Training where he was a teacher trainer for Peace Corps Programs for Iran, India, Korea, and West Africa, the director of SIT’s intensive English program, Faculty and Chair of SIT’s MATESL Program, and Director of EFL programs in Istanbul and Islamabad. He has also been on the faculty of Marlboro College’s MATSOL Program, and on the faculty of Southern New Hampshire’s MATFL Program in Hanoi, Viet Nam. During most of those years, he was a partner in a local publishing company where he edited and wrote several textbooks on teaching languages. Most recently, in retirement, he has been teaching refugees in the SIT/ECDC New Vermonter Education Program.

SPECS
Here and There: 50 Years of Poems
Poetry
Paperback Original
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 134
Price: $19.95 (CA $26.95)
ISBN: 979-8-9904801-3-1
Publication Date: NOVEMBER 5, 2025
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