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First Place
Winner
Angela Ortiz-Webb
Crowley, Texas
$100
"Solibye"
Angela Ortiz-Webb was born in Houston, Texas thirty-three
years ago. She was raised in Englewood, Ohio but came back to Texas when
she was fifteen years-old and has never left. Angela has three
incredible children, two boys and one beautiful little girl. She is
married to a "wonderfully patient husband of eleven years and we have
been together for thirteen years." She describes herself as a simple
person who loves the small things in life and aspire for the big, yet
important things. She professes to have little formal education,
"certainly not for this arena," but loves to write. Angela says she
express herself best through writing. She has been writing for about
eighteen years now, drawing inspiration from many different things.
However, personal trials seems to bring out her best work. Angela says,
"Recently I’ve been writing music. So far that’s been very rewarding,
and I look forward to seeing how much better I can become." Mrs.
Webb says her greatest accomplishments in her life call her Mom and
Beautiful!
Second Place
Winner
Karen R. Springer
Williamstown, New
Jersey
$75
"Nature's Child"
Dr. Karen R. Springer has been writing poetry
since the age of ten. She has three, as to date, unpublished
anthologies: 101 Speakings of the Giddy Gypsy, High Noon and
My Pistol's Smoking, and Getting There. Much of her energy
for the past forty years has been devoted to her career as an
administrator in several southern New Jersey school districts where she
served as superintendent and principal. She has several degrees,
including Bachelors of Arts and Master of Arts in Teaching in Music, as
well as a Master of Arts and Doctor of Education in Public School
Administration.
After her formal “retirement” from public education, Dr.
Springer served as a senior director in higher education,
after-school/summer administrator in an urban school setting, as well as
headmistress of a private school. She is currently an education
consultant. She lives happily with her husband of 39 years. They both
enjoy their rustic summer home in the woods at the Jersey shore. She
also loves going to the opera as well as singing it.
Karen best summarizes herself in the opening quatrain of
her poem, “The Good Ol' Girl”:
I'm just a simple good ol' girl
who drinks her coffee black
Sips scotch as strong as iodine
and drives a Cadillac.
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