Founder's Birthday!

Happy birthday Joseph Spencer! 
Today, the 18th of June, 2026 is a special day as it marks the birthday of Collab Tour founder, Joseph Spencer Ph.D.  Spencer is one of the most influential contemporary poets of the 21st Century and his accolades, accomplishments and achievements read like something from a movie scene. 

Joseph Spencer is a trained attorney, who along the line of his practice discovered the art of writing powerful poetry. With a Masters Degree from the University of Mary Land and a Doctorate in Greco-Roman History (Creative Writing), Spencer redefines what it means to be eminently qualified alongside being naturally talented. 

He won the Nigerian Poetry Prize in 2017, the German Literary Poetry Prize in 2018 and several awards per all poetry.com: He also won the Critics Choice Award in 2018.  He has poems that have been published in journals across the world too numerous to mention.  His poem, “Before The Lights” is one of the most pirated and copyrighted poems in history. 
Spencer is the first Poet in the 21st Century to have his first four poetry collections debut at Number 1 in the Amazon Bestsellers category, all published in the space of exactly three months; “July 2022 to September 2022”, with his books, “The Lost Notes alongside Boma Horsfall”, “Escape: In my Darkest Hour”, “The Preacher of Love” and “The Preacher of Love (Deluxe)”, all which were Number 1 on the Amazon Bestseller Lists, with Escape actually replacing The Lost Notes at Number 1, after release; All records yet to be broken. 
Spencer founded the Collab Tour on the back of his success on Amazon Bestsellers Lists, which transformed him to a Global superstar.  The Tour began in 2023 and till date, under the leadership of Spencer, has now recorded a record number of bestsellers on the Amazon Bestsellers Charts, with “Fractured Euphoria” by Jacqueline Kimberly, a member of the Collab Tour, being the 20th Consecutive Amazon Bestseller on the Collab Tour. 

Joseph Spencer has been directly responsible for the career successes of Poet and Creative heavyweights like, Raine Figueroa, Bilan Thompson, Rhonda Yates, Autumn Williams, Renaria.B, Jacqueline Kimberly, all bestsellers on the Amazon lists and successful in their respective careers, to mention but a few.  Spencer is a mentor and Father Figure in the modern poetry community today, and has been the voice of community and “collective success” for the poetry community now for almost a decade, with the Collab Tour, having members from over 6 continents in the world. 
Happy Birthday, Joseph Spencer, from the entire members of the Collab Tour, The Editorial Board of the Poets Digest and indeed all poets worldwide. 


Boma Horsfall 
Collab Tour/Content Manager 

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