William C Semo

The son of a Merchant Marine with a love for the sea, William Semo, born in Somerset Pennsylvania in 1978 in the Laurel Highlands, grew up in the towns of Ligonier and Youngstown Pennsylvania surrounded by lush forests with the vast changing New England seasons. A land surrounded with a rich history of the French/Indian War as well as the Revolutionary War, he drew inspiration from growing up around these lands and people from the highest mountains to the sandiest shores, the scholar to the plowman.

His music and literary influences are Jack Kerouac, Kahlil Gibran, his neighbor Fred Rogers, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and a litany of others upon which he learnt mastery of his belief system from.


A Tennessee Squire. A 2002 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Psychology. He worked on the Capstone Project and is a founding member of the Wolfpack Conservation Society as well as other projects for veterans, and has a strong love for nature and environmental issues that are close to his heart. He has appeared in many publications through the years beginning in 1997 up until the present

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Valerie|Paperback

Valerie, a third book of poetry by Laurel Highlands Author and Poet William C Semo. When you ask what inspires poetry, it is the friendships of one's life. In this book a dedication of poetry to an old friend who recently passed, one who stood by him and believed in him through his many life struggles. Their friendship, unconditional, always pure and spiritual with a sweet ""I love you."" in parting with one another. ""It is the kind of poetry she liked, the kind she would read. Whether I woul
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Son Of A Sailor First Edition|Paperback

The son of a Merchant Marine with a love for the sea, William Semo, born in Somerset Pennsylvania in 1978 in the Laurel Highlands, grew up in the towns of Ligonier and Youngstown Pennsylvania surrounded by lush forests with the vast changing New England seasons. A land surrounded with a rich history of the French/Indian War as well as the Revolutionary War, he drew inspiration from growing up around these lands and people from the highest mountains to the sandiest shores, the scholar to the plow
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Laurel Highlands Poet|Paperback

Growing up in the Laurel Highlands there is no shortage of inspiration to be found. A great country music songwriter once told me when he found my notebooks of poems that when you walk the trail long enough, the words just come naturally. I used to sit on the shores of Lake Erie and in the Laurel Highlands and carry these small notebooks with me. Sometimes they became so worn and torn and covered in moss that they themselves took on their own quality and their own feeling. Some were covered in s