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/PRNewswire/ -- Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its nineteenth annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. 4,593 entries were...
Al Young, a Berkeley resident and the 2005 California poet laureate. Credit: Michael Young Al Young, a nationally renowned novelist, essayist, screenwriter, professor and poet whom Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed as the state poet laureate in 2005, died April 17, two years after suffering a major stroke. He was 81. Young, a long-time Berkeley resident whose deep, melodic voice was as smooth as the blues music he adored, saw his work become a permanent feature in the city’s landscape. His poem, Who I Am In Twilight, is embedded in the Addison Street Poetry Walk, right in front of Freig...
Winning Writers Announces the Winners of the 18th Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest News provided by Share this article Share this article NORTHAMPTON, Mass., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its 18th annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, judged by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier with assistance from Jim DuBois. Tony Keith Jr. of Washington, DC won the Tom Howard Prize of $3,000 for a poem in any style or genre, for "Black Man on Fire". Kayleb Rae Candrilli of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania won the Margaret Reid Prize of $3,0...