Tom Spencer
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Bio: Tom Spencer, born in July of 1943, grew up in the City of the Century?Gary, Indiana, where his eighth grade English teacher introduced him to the poetry of Blake, Longfellow, Hughes, Auden, Tennyson, and other poets of all persuasions. His fertile mind locked on to this avenue of escape from the toils of a structured education.
Tom graduated high school in 1961 and went directly into the US Army. That same year he met and started his forty-three year courtship of an astute student of the theater, a lady named Kathleen Correnti (Spencer).
Active in his adopted town of Lowell, Indiana, Tom is well known for his community involvement in such organizations as the Chamber of Commence, American Legion, Retail Merchant's Committee, Lowell Oktoberfest, and Friends of The Library.
Tom has belonged to many writers' groups and workshops in the Lake Porter area. He has published two collections of poetry:
Word Castles, a collection of 186 poems in various forms, and
America on Fire, co-authored and self published by Jas Singh PhD and Tom in December 2001, a collection of poems related to the aftermath of 9/11.
Tom is an active member of The Indiana Federation of Poetry Clubs, The National Federation of Poetry Societies, and The Northwest Indiana Poetry Society. He is currently active in two writers' workshops at the Hobart Barnes and Noble: "Write on Hoosiers" and "The Writer's Expressions."
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