GOLDEN PEN AWARD

In recognition of at least one outstanding poet who has died during this year and one outstanding living poet who is an active, vital member of the senior community of American poets.

  Name  Home  Personal  Title
    
  IDA FASEL

 Denver
(In Memoriam)


 2004 Colorado Senior Poet Laureate
 2006 National Senior Poet Runner Up
 


"Of Angels"
"Moonstone"
    
  LEE ANN RUSSELL


 Springfield
(Living Poet)



 2012 Award-winning Missouri writer
 

"Last Call"


INTERNATIONAL DIPLOEMAT AWARD

In recognition of one or more members of the international community of senior poets who serve as goodwill ambassadors through poetry as humanitarian art

  Name  Home  Personal  Title
    
 AGATHA LAI
 Malaysia   Bardlet from Yvonne Nunn’s Cyber College
  of Online Poetry
  "Whenever Windstorms Blow"


SCRIBE’S SCROLL AWARD

Selected by Amy Kitchener as exemplary of her mission statement as the sponsor of this annual SPL competition:    Preservation, perpetuation, presentation and performance of the Spirit of the ancient esoteric Scribal Arts in the modern world.

  Name  Home  Personal  Title
    
CHARLIE SOUTHERLAND
  Viola, Arkansas   Retired farmer   "Apology to Crazy Horse"