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Show Local poets winners in competition w Members of the Bountiful Rhyme and Reason Chapter of the Utah State Poetry Society were in attendance with poets from all areas of the state at the recent annual two-day two-day "April Awards Festival," held this year at the Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City. The awards festival featured presentation pre-sentation of poetry awards in 27 categories and the reading of winning win-ning poems by Dr. Rex Campbell, Dr. Jean Jenkins and Dr. Max Golightly. . Five members of the Rhyme and Reason Chapter garnered 13 awards in 1 1 categories of the competition that drew over 1,200 entries including: in-cluding: Marlene Fairchild, three special recognition, three honorable mention; men-tion; Lloyd Murray, second place and special recognition; Helen Noble, second place; Maxine Shreve, second place; and Kolette Montague, two special recognition and first honorable mention in the prestigious book publication category. Members of the Rhyme and Reason Chapter are from Farm- ington, Centerville, North Salt Lake and Bountiful. Lucile Perry, chapter president, invites anyone in the South Davis area who is interested in the study and writing of poetry to attend chapter meetings which are held at 6:45 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month, at the South Branch of the Davis County Library in Bountiful. |