Carrie Backe, 70, of Payson, has won
the 2012 Arizona Senior Poet Laureate Award with her free verse “About Grandma.”
The 20th annual Senior Poets
Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets 50 and older was sponsored by
Amy Kitchener’s Angels Without Wings Fdn. of Monterey, Calif. Backe, a retired editor, teacher and used-book
store owner, has won the award several years in the past.
John W. Crawford, 76, retired
professor of literature from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark.,
won the 2012 National Senior Poet Laureate Award with his ode to poet Robert
Frost, “The One Less Traveled By.”
William Childress, 79, Folsom,
Calif., won the National Honor Scroll Award with his free verse “The Sorceress.”
Childress, whose parents were sharecroppers, picked cotton from age 8 through
18, and spent part of his childhood in Arizona.
All winning poems appear in Golden
Words anthology, and the national winners can be read online at www.amykitchenerfdn.org
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