2011 STATE/REGIONAL
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Each name followed by an asterisk (*) represents a guest poet laureate who received an Honorary Senior Poet Laureate award that did not qualify for final judging but which made possible a “first” in the 19-year history of the Senior Poets Laureate contest: inclusion of all 50 states. |
| State/Region | Name | City | Title |
| ALABAMA | Donna Jean Tennis | Montgomery | First Kiss |
| ALASKA | Albert L. Baker* | Juneau | What I Am |
| ARIZONA | Carrie Backe | Payson | Shirts |
| ARKANSAS | Verna Lee Hinegardner | Conway | Misfit |
| CALIFORNIA | Jo Carpignano | San Mateo | The Yellow Bus |
| COLORADO | Terry Sale | Littleton | Antinoos Slain |
| CONNECTICUT | Carol Leavitt Altieri | Madison | Nature’s Wide-Screen Light Show |
| DELAWARE | Priscilla Nemeth | Long Neck | The Thought of Saying
Something New or Dear in the Middle of the Night |
| FLORIDA | Valerie Esker | Beverly Hills | Haibun |
| GEORGIA | Emery L. Campbell | Lawrenceville | Declaration of the Forswearing of Ophidian Decortication |
| HAWAII | Calamity Jane Goodin* | Honolulu | The Mystery of Granddad |
| IDAHO | Michael Tatum | Rexburg | Casualties of the Big Thaw |
| ILLINOIS | Beth Staas | Westmont | Slipping Away |
| INDIANA | Gail M. Brant | Anderson | Too Late I Know My Brother |
| IOWA | Susan L. Lemon | Dubuque | Born in a Barn |
| INTERNATIONAL | Helen Bar-Lev | Metulla, Israel | Two Zinnias |
| KANSAS | Marie Asner | Overland Park | Kansas Summer |
| KENTUCKY | Christine Strevinsky | Shepherdsville | Here a Church, There a Church, Everywhere a Church Church |
| LOUISIANA | Vickie Crenshaw* | Bossier City | The Man with a Heart of Gold |
| MAINE | Roger Finch | Cape Neddick | An Unmarked Grave |
| MARYLAND | Patrick Fogarty | White Plains | Sic Transit |
| MASSACHUSETTS | Marian Kaplun Shapiro | Lexington | Decision |
| MICHIGAN | Sallie A. Hinds | Au Gres | Loneliness |
| MINNESOTA | Doreen Lindahl | Keewatin | The Cockatoo and the Peekapoo |
| MISSISSIPPI | Patricia Butkovich | Gautier | Pick-Up Truck |
| MISSOURI | Marilyn K. Smith | Fair Grove | Sawmill |
| MONTANA | Diogenes Rosenberg* | Bozeman | Male Bonding in the Wild |
| NEBRASKA | Kathy L. Arens | Ewing | Wool Sock |
| NEVADA | Raynette Eitel | Las Vegas | At the Irish Pub |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE | P. Stansfield Tarbox | Wolfeboro | The Writers |
| NEW JERSEY | Raymond Reininger | Sayreville | Welcome Home |
| NEW MEXICO | Hilda F. Wales | Albuquerque | Purple Clouds |
| NEW YORK | Jane Heidgerd | Rhinebeck | Learning to Kiss with Glasses |
| NORTH CAROLINA | Jean Calkins | Waynesville | The Secret of San Bernard River |
| NORTH DAKOTA | Theodore Skaggs* | Fargo | Trav’lin Money |
| OHIO | Joseph A. Psarto | Westlake | The Moon and the Dog |
| OKLAHOMA | Carol Dee Meeks | Tulsa | Sacred Gifts Come with Surprise |
| OREGON | Kate Marsh | Burns | The Stone has Skipped |
| PENNSYLVANIA | Mildred Taylor | Ligonier | The Rebel |
| RHODE ISLAND | Doris Deleuze Raffaele | Lincoln | The Tender Hour |
| SOUTH CAROLINA | Verna Puntigan | Spartanburg | The Cats |
| SOUTH DAKOTA | Polliann Nuckolls Thomas | Hot Springs | Rhapsody in Time |
| TENNESSEE | Edgar Allan Philpott* | Memphis | Double Deception |
| TEXAS | Gary D. Swaim | Irving | Three-Penny Nails |
| UTAH | Robert Lynn Brown | Cedar Hills | Pee as in Prostate |
| VERMONT | Regina Murray Brault | Burlington | Star-Gazers |
| VIRGINIA | Elaine Morgan | Warrenton | Mindful |
| WASHINGTON | Frieda Risvold | Des Moines | Delivery |
| WEST VIRGINIA | Carolynn J. Brown | Charles Town | The Bond |
| WISCONSIN | Prairie Flower* | RFD | Ta-Bac’s Revenge |
| WYOMING | Linda Ruhle | Worland | Glitter |