Rehoboth's Robert Gallamore wins 2012 Delaware Senior Poet Laureate Award
Rehoboth resident Robert E. Gallamore, 72, a part-time consulting and adjunct professor in transportation economics, won the 2012 Delaware Senior Poet Laureate Award for “Accompanying Passages - (After Walt Whitman and Wilber Caldwell).”
National honorees include John W. Crawford, 76, retired professor of literature from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark., who won the 2012 National Senior Poet Laureate Award with his ode to poet Robert Frost, “The One Less Traveled By.” William Childress, 79, of Folsom, Calif., won the National Honor Scroll Award with his free verse, “The Sorceress.” He is a former National Geographic editor and columnist whose “Out of the Ozarks” column in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
This marks the 20th anniversary of the annual national Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American Poets age 50 and older sponsored by Amy Kitchener’s Angels Without Wings Foundation, Monterey, Calif. All winning poems appear in Golden Words anthology. Details about the contest and the national winners’ poems can be found at www.amykitchenerfdn.org.
