April is National Poetry Month and, as one way of celebrating it in Colorado, here is a list of all the known winners of Colorado Authors' League Awards for poetry between 1943 and 2007. A few titles haven't been recorded in our files, and a few years' worth of awards are presently missing from the archives, but here's a long list of distinguished works we've honored over our history. Hail Colorado poets!
CAL's first president was also the first landscape architect hired by the U.S. Forest Service. A writer of fiction and non-fiction, he was work was "grounded in personal experience and a passion for preservation."
