Poetry contest winners read at Roswell Museum reading
The High Prairie Poets Society and ENMU High Plains Writing Project host a 2 p.m. public reading in the Bassett Room of the Roswell Museum and Art Center featuring 44 winners or merit poets from the 2010 Spring Poetry Contest and 15 Kathryn Applegate haiku awardees. More than 400 entries came from public private and home school students. First through 12th graders earn cash prizes and certificates. judges name Poems of Merit and haiku will be published in Small Canyons 5 Anthology.
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