NEW YORK - Herbert Siegel, 75, retired CEO from Long Beach, N.Y., won the 2009 New York Senior Poet Laureate Award for his poem "Monuments" in the 17th annual national Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older.   

The yearly literary event, sponsored by Amy Kitchener's Angels Without Wings Fdn. of Monterey, Calif., is open to all American poets born before 1959 regardless of where they live in the world.

Vincent J. Tomeo, 62, social studies teacher from Flushing, N.Y., received the Honor Scroll Award for his poem "Poetry Reading III" which won in the 1st round but did not advance to finals from which a national winner was selected. 

Patricia Frolander, 66, rancher from Sundance, Wyo., won the National Senior Poet Laureate Award for her poem "Father when You call."  Details about the contest, and all winners' poems, appear in the online anthology GOLDEN WORDS currently on the sponsor's website www.amykitchenerfdn.org