Entries are now being received in the 2009 Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older. Deadline is 6/30/09. One National Senior Poet Laureate will be selected from poems that win the 2009 Senior Poet Laureate awards for state and territories represented by entrants. Poets must hold U.S. Citizenship regardless of where they live, or are visiting, in the world. The National Senior Poet Laureate will win a certificate and $500.

Feel free to share this e-mail with all writers/poets born in 1959 or earlier. American poets who live outside the continental U.S. are welcome to participate, as are members of all chapters of the NFSPS. For details and rules, visit “Contest” and/or “Senior Poet Laureate” by clicking here to log onto our website: www.amykitchenerfdn.org.