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These selections in alphabetical order will appear in GIFTS OF THE GREAT SPIRIT—LEGENDS—Volume IV to be published in Fall 2013. Also included will be winners of the 2013 White Buffalo Native American Poet Laureate Contest, winners of which can be viewed at
Linda Amos, York, PA, poems, "No Tears, Just Quiet Reflection" and "…this old boulevard…"
Elayne Azevedo, Pacific Grove, CA, poem, "Shadows"
Carol Willette Bachofner, Rockland, ME, poem, "Naming Water"
Cindy Bechtold, Lehi, UT, poem, "Dissipating Vision"
Brenda Bowen, Roseville, CA, poem, "Black-Foot"
Rev. John Buehrens, Carmel, CA, prose, "Vision Quest 1: How Standing Bear Got His Name"
William Childress, Folsom, CA, poem, "In the Gila Monster Den"
Houstine Cooper, Springdale, AR, poem, "White Man Teacher"
Robert Louis Covington, Fontana, CA, poem, “A Mohawk Talks”
Rosemary Ginko, North Brooklyn Center, MN, poems, "The Inupiaq, Elder" and "Time to Prepare"
Harold E. Grice, Salinas, CA, poem, "Redeem the Truth"
Robert Dean Hoeft, Ashland, OR, poem “If Nature Held a Garage Sale”
Cindy M. Hutchings, Auburn, WA, poem, "Light Warrior"
Doreen Lindahl, Keewatin, MN, poem, "My Mouse"
Yvonne Londres, San Antonio, TX, fiction, "The Legend of Glisten Trail" and poem, "Shadow, My Dream Guide"
Madeline McEwen, San Jose, CA , fiction, "Ahiga's Quest"
Renee Meador, Big Horn, WY, poem, "Warrior's Song"
Carol Dee Meeks, Tulsa, OK, poems, "Boss of the Wilderness" and "Maidens, Pale-face Bison and the Wind"
Judy Olson Mosca, North Mankato, MN, poem, "Forgive Everyone Everything" and poem, "Pow Wow Time"
Wanda Sue Parrott, Monterey, CA, poem, "First Friends," prose poem, "Grandfather's Secret" and autobiographical/non-fiction, "Vision Quest 2: My Encounter With Five Tall Native Americans"
Joseph A. Psarto, Westlake, OH, poem, “Indian Winter”
Barbara Callahan Quin, Springfield, MO, prose, "Vision Quest 3: The Legend of the True Heart"
Vera Jane Goodin Schultz, Springfield, MO, fiction, "Native American Dreamer"
Jonathan Shoemaker, Carrmel, CA, poem, "Black Elk Speaks"
Vincent J. Tomeo, Flushing, NY, poem, "Legends Live On" and prose poem, "Reflections on a Silhouette:
Great Spirits Live On"
Neal Whitman, Pacific Grove, CA, poems, “Alaska by Boat, by Gawd” and “Trail of Time”
Martin Willitts, Syracuse, NY, poem, "Two Worlds"