6--The Diploemat

21st Anniversary of the Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition

September 2013

Native American Poet Laureate Contest anthology is in print.

GIFTS OF THE GREAT SPIRIT – LEGENDS
Volume IV
$15

Features winners of the 2013 White Buffalo Native American
Poet Laureate Contest and Literary Challenge.
Publisher Barbara Callahan Quin
says that although this marks the
final volume of the Gifts of the Great Spirit series,
future White Buffalo literary activities are pending and will be announced.

For details about how to order volumes in the Great Spirit series visit
www.greatspiritpublishing.yolasite.com/book-store.php

SPL Co-Founder’s
Famous Last Words…

With on-the-job photos

With gratitude, I thank Al, Vera Jane, Barbara and our many poet friends throughout the country and world. You nurtured and sustained me during my painful one-woman stand against City Hall in Springfield, Missouri in which I finally prevailed and survived the annual sewage-stormwater floods that did not drown out Senior Poets Laureate on my land on the Trail of Tears. The SPL helped me walk through the valley of despair while enduring loss of outer beauty after surgery saved my life by removing tumors and cheek bone.

I was able to heal because I had work to do. SPL kept me going behind closed doors. Al was there, telling me I was beautiful (see center photo). Helping me laugh. Sharing our love of fig newtons, UFOs and HTML. Forgive my use of a cliché, but Al lied like a rug, and was the best doctor I ever had! I call him Sunshine because he is Light, Life and Love, and he also likes cats!

We will continue to work together after SPL, so you have not heard the last from us yet. We hope to have good news about the SPL in December. Meanwhile, thanks and may the muse ever be with you.