- Date
- 1987-02
- Kind
- Award
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- artseducationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February 1987 Beaver Beacon reported that Beaver Island School graduate Robert B. Cole’s poem “Something About Autumn” won the second annual Sigma Tau Delta poetry contest at Central Michigan University.
Evidence limits
The newspaper report does not provide the contest’s full rules, judging record, or award documentation.
Sources
- Prints Cole’s poem and says it recently won the second annual Sigma Tau Delta poetry contest at Central Michigan University; identifies him as the son of Lil and Donald Cole and a Beaver Island School graduate. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1987-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the poem and award report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1987-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Robert B. Cole wins Central Michigan poetry contest, 1987”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-robert-cole-poetry-contest-1987/, accessed [date], citing Robert B. Cole, “Something About Autumn,” Beaver Beacon, February 1987. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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