NH SENIOR POET LAUREATE
Search is on for New Hampshire Senior Poet Laureate
Entries are now being accepted for regional winners in the 19th 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 the 2011 National Senior Poet Laureate (500) and runner up ($100) awards will be announced Sept. 1, 2011.
The 2010 New Hampshire Senior Poet Laureate Award was won by Patricia J. Tarbox, 61, Wolfeboro (aka P. Stansfield Tarbox), retired English teacher who was a finalist in the New England Association of Teachers of English Poet/Teacher of the Year Award in 1992, 1996, 1997 and 1998. Click on the title to read her laureate poem "What He Taught Me".
Winner of the 2010 National Senior Laureate Award was Regina Murray Brault of Burlington, Vermont. All 2010 winners can be seen in the 2010 Golden Words Anthology, along with details about the 2011 Senior Poets Laureate Competition, at the sponsor’s website: www.amykitchenerfdn.org
Sponsor National Annual Senior Poets Laureate (SPL) Poetry Competition
Editor "GOLDEN WORDS" anthology of winning SPL poems
Contact:
Wanda Sue Parrott, 831-899-5887
amykitchenerfdn@hotmail.com
P. O. Box 1821
Monterey, CA 93942-1821
