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Works by Ray Zimmerman
 
Freelance Journalism – Rays most recent project, an article on snorkeling and freshwater environments is live on the web page of Appalachian Voices. https://appvoices.org/2020/09/09/snorkel-appalachia-freshwater 

Ray authored an article about Chattanooga Poet and Naturalist Robert Sparks Walker
http://www.chattanoogapulse.com/features/pulitzer-prize-nominee-has-won-all-the-hearts-of-chattanooga/
 
Chatty on the Mic http://www.chattanoogapulse.com/features/chatty-on-the-mic/
 
From Page to Screen Casper Cox Searches for Hidden Rivers http://www.chattanoogapulse.com/arts/features/from-page-to-screen-casper-cox-searches-for-hidden-rivers/
 
Short Essay - Postcard from Hiwassee Island
https://cagibilit.com/cherokee-removal-memorial-postcard-from-hiwassee-island/
 
Poems – “Driving to New Hope” and “Late August Collage”
https://www.catalpamag.com/poetry/2020/5/5/driving-to-new-hopePoe
https://www.catalpamag.com/poetry/2020/5/5/late-august-collage
 
Long Essay – The Tonic of Wilderness https://wayback.archive-it.org/10525/20190514114730/https://www.csuchico.edu/watershed/2017-spring/nonfiction/zimmerman-ray.shtml
 
Ray Edits the newsletter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, Chattanooga Chapter http://chattanoogatos.org/newsletters/
 
Beginning in October, Ray will be editing the newsletter of the Chattanooga Writer’s Guild https://chattanoogawritersguild.org/
 
Ray’s Poems have also appeared in
The Avocet (Fountain Hills, AZ)
Number One (Gallatin, TN)
Quill and Parchment (Online)
Weatherings Anthology (FutureCycle Press, Lexington, KY) The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume VI, Tennessee (Texas Review Press)
 
Prior to 2010, Ray's Journalism appeared in:
Legacy: The Journal of Interpretation, Fort Collins, Colorado
Photo Traveler Newsletter, San Francisco, California
Cappers, Kansas City Missouri
Hellbender Press, Knoxville, Tennessee
Envirolink, Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Art of living, Chattanooga, Tennessee