Carrie Backe and Noble Collins, two local poets, recently won prestigious awards for their work.
Backe, 67, a retired teacher and bookstore owner who now lives in Payson, has won the 2009 Arizona Senior Poet Laureate Award for her poem "The Pact." The 17th annual national Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older was sponsored by Amy Kitchener's Angels Without Wings Foundation of Monterey, Calif.
Patricia Frolander, 66, a rancher from Sundance, Wyo., won the National Senior Poet Laureate Award for her poem "Father when You call." Details about the contest and all winners' poems appear in the online anthology GOLDEN WORDS currently on the sponsor's website at http://www.amykitchenerfdn.org/.
Backe's winning poem also appears in a following post and under the tab POETRY in the right hand column of this blog.
Collins, a popular Gazette columnist who writes "Rimshots" and "En Vino Veritas," won a "Most Highly Commended Prize" of $100 in the 2009 Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse for his poem "The Falcon."
"It's a prestigious contest, so I'm elated," Collins told the Gazette. "This is an international contest that usually draws more than 1,000 entries.
"One year, I actually won second place overall with a poem entitled 'Old Hawk.' Ironically, this poem was entitled 'The Falcon.'
"I guess I have a thing for old birds. 'The Falcon' is based upon W.B. Yeats poem 'The Second Coming,' which has always been a favorite."
Collins' winning poem and "Old Hawk" appear in following posts and under the tab POETRY in the right hand column of this blog.
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