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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Search on for Arizona, Senior poet laureates

(Monterey, Calif.--1/9/10) Entries are now being accepted for regional winners in the 18th annual National Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older. Deadline is June 30.

Winning poems of state senior poets laureate will be named in July, following which they advance to final rounds of competition from which the winner of $500 and the 2010 National Senior Poet Laureate title will be announced around Sept. 1.

Carrie Backe of Payson won the 2009 Arizona Senior Poet Laureate award with her poem “The Pact.“ (To read "The Pact," click on POETRY in the right column and scroll down.) Winner of the 2009 National Senior Poet Laureate Award was Patricia Frolander, 66, rancher from Sundance, Wyo.

Co-sponsors Vera-Jane Goodin Schultz and Wanda Sue Parrott founded the contest administered by Amy Kitchener’s Angels Without Wings Foundation in 1993. The 2009 winners can be seen in Golden Words Anthology, along with details about the 2010 Senior Poets Laureate Contest, at www.amykitchenerfdn.org

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