Home to the Bent pageRoger A. Lipe, of Schram City, was honored last month at a convention of the International Society of Poets in Washington, D.C. He was invited to read one of his poems, "A Haunting", and was presented with the International Poet of Merit Award.
One of Mr. Lipe's poems, "Minus Signs" appeared recently in a collection sponsored by the National Library of Poetry entitled, "Beneath The Harvest Moon." Four more are scheduled to be released by the beginning of next year in anthologies by the same publisher, from whom he received an Editor's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry. Another poem, "Sea Dreams and Mornings", is due out in December of this year, in "Treasured Poems of America" published by Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum.
Roger is a native of Schram City, the son of Charles and Bonnie Cozart Lipe. He graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1966 and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1967-70 being stationed, after basic training, at Da Nang AFB, Viet Nam, then at Tahkli AFB, Thailand. He attended Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where he graduated with University Honors in 1979. Lipe was employed by the State of Illinois as a programmer/analyst for 8 years, after which he became an independent consultant. He now has his own consulting company based in Schram City.
Roger has a large collection of over 300 poems, written from his college days in the 70's until the present. Plans are in the works to publish a volume of his selected poems, and several will be available soon on the Internet.
Both the National Library of Poetry and Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum have an open submission policy, accepting poems of 20 lines or less from both published and unpublished poets. Interested persons can contact the National Library of Poetry at P.O. Box 704 Owings Mills, MD 21117 and Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum at P.O. Box 193 Sistersville, WV 26175
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