Walt Barger is a member of Chattanooga Writers' Guild, Knoxville Writers' Guild, Rhyme N Chatt Interactive Poetry Group, Tennessee Writers Alliance, Poetry Society of Tennessee, Cookville Creative Writers' Association and Tennessee Mountain Writers, Inc. He participates in local poetry groups, such as Poetry Monday, Rhyme N Chatt, and Open Mic at Barnes & Noble.

Retired from his mechanical contracting business after thirty-six years, Walt started writing about five years ago and developed a passion for poetry. He has taken college courses in creative writing, and recently been published in The Phoenix, The Seqouya Review, Tennessee Voices, Grandmother Earth and Chattanooga On The Move. His first book of select poems, Dark Sails in the Twilight, produced by 1stBooks Library, Bloomington, Ind., is available from major booksellers, online @ 1stBooks.com, and of course from Walt. Numerous book signings are in the near future.

Visit Walt's Voice of Poetry website.

Our dear friend and fellow writer, Walt Barger, passed away February 1, 2004. Although we miss Walt and will always miss his writer's voice, the acceptance and peace that he had at the very end of his life was inspiring and is an ongoing comfort to us all. We are especially grateful that Walt was able to attend our January meeting where we honored him and his second book of poems, Chasing Echoes. Walt will always be dear to us.

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