2008 NATIONAL SENIOR POETs LAUREATE WINNER
TEXAS	Mike Gullickson	Burnet	“A Promise of Music”
2008 National Senior Poet Laureate Runner Up Award Winner
MISSOURI	Edwin S. Rice	Kansas City	“Supermarket Saturday”
2008 STATE SENIOR POETs LAUREATE WINNERS
State	Name	City	Title of Poem
ALABAMA	Donna Jean Tennis	Montgomery	“Melon Moon”
ARIZONA	Carrie Backe	Payson	“Bouquet of Years”
ARKANSAS	Marcia Camp	Little Rock	“Onions”
CALIFORNIA	Harvey Thomas Sampson	Santee	“The Last Patrol”
COLORADO	C. L. Farmer	Arvada	“to live well live unseen”
CONNECTICUT	Carol Leavitt Altieri	Madison	“Tonight”
FLORIDA	Joan Cavanagh Manning	Cutler Bay	“Wishes”
GEORGIA	Sylvia Sampson-Haney	Stockbridge	“Night Incense”
ILLINOIS	Helen E. Rilling	Auburn	“Cameo of a Long Ago Spring Day”
INDIANA	Alice B. Couch	Noblesville	“Victorian Bride”
IOWA	Lila Borg Rohrer	Victor	“Ever After has its Moments”
KENTUCKY	Barb McMakin	Crestwood	“Going Home”
MAINE	Paul Averill Liebow	Bucksport	“When Death Comes”
MASSACHUSETTS	Marian Kaplun Shapiro	Lexington	“La Touriste Sans Souci”
MICHIGAN	Laurence W. Thomas	Ypsilanti	“Choices”
MINNESOTA	Donal Heffernan	Stillwater	“Fear of Stepping on Small Cars”
MISSISSIPPI	Dorothy Rogers	Lucedale	“Holistic Image”
NEBRASKA	Robert B. Robeson	Lincoln	“To Steal, or Not to Steal”
NEW HAMPSHIRE	Maren C. Tirabassi	Portsmouth	“There Will be No More Carrots”
NEW JERSEY	Raymond Reininger	Sayreville	“A Room with No View”
NEW MEXICO	Barbara DuBois	Socorro	“The Other Hand”
NEW YORK	Vincent J. Tomeo	Flushing	“Refrigerator”
NORTH CAROLINA	Jean Calkins	Waynesville	“Revelations in Fog”
OHIO	Helen Webb	South Point	“Cancelled Plan”
OKLAHOMA	Dena R. Gorrell	Edmond	“Beloved Grandchild”
OREGON	Robert D. Hoeft	Ashland	“If Nature Held a Garage Sale”
PENNSYLVANIA	Rodica Mihalis	Wyndmoor	“Eternity”
SOUTH CAROLINA	Olga Warner Penzin	Rock Hill	“Uncommon Fellowship”
UTAH	M. M. Fisher	Salt Lake City	“This is Not a Love Song”
VIRGINIA	Elaine P. Morgan	Warrenton	“A Study in Silver”
WASHINGTON	Frieda Risvold	Seattle	“Fast ? Friends”
WYOMING	Eugene V. Shea	Hanna	“The Witch of Lomax”