by Wanda Sue Parrott, Editor, www.amykitchenerfdn.org
Winners in the 2013 White Buffalo Native American Poet Laureate Contest were announced by judges Barbara Callahan Quin (Little Crow Walking Eagle) and Yvonne Londres (Dances with Poetry) in the fourth annual writing competition produced by Great Spirit Publishing of Springfield, Mo., and sponsored by Amy Kitchener’s Angels Without Wings Fdn. of Monterey, Calif. Participation was light due to an unexpected illness and death that prevented us from widely publicizing the contest which had a postmark deadline of March 10.
The 2013 Native American Poet Laureate Award was won by Gail Denham of Sunriver, Oregon, for her poem “We Run, the Deer and I.” She succeeds Neal “Badger Bob White” Whitman of Pacific Grove. California, 2012 Native American Poet Laureate Award winner. Total 2013 entry fees were $90. Along with her award of $30 (1/3 of entry fees), Gail Denham was named Honorary Chief of the White Buffalo Tribe.
The two 2013 Calf Awards were won by Lee Pelham Cotton, of Locust Hill, Virginia, for "White Man's Foot, White Man's Flies," and Carol Leavitt Altieri, of Madison, Connecticut, for “Molly Ockett, Indian Doctress,” who split 1/3 of entry fees ($15 each). The remaining $30 will be used for Part Two of the 2013 White Buffalo project explained in the section above. These and a number of other special online awards winners will be published in LEGENDS--GIFTS OF THE GREAT SPIRIT, Volume IV, anthology of the 2013 White Buffalo Native American Poet Laureate Contest and Literary Challenge to be released this fall. All details will appear in April on the Great Spirit Publishing website at www.greatspiritpublishing.yolasite.com.
