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Hey y'all! It's time for MCFL's Annual Cowboy Poetry Contest!

Join us in appreciating the Western lifestyle, ranch work, cowboys, cowgirls, and poetry....

Submit your original cowboy poetry at any branch or online

Entries accepted until June 1, 2012

Win:

• Four tickets to the California Rodeo Salinas Cowboy Poetry Gathering on Friday, July 13, 2012

• Read your poem (or have someone read it for you) at the event

• Meet the poets backstage

• Have your poem published on MCFL's website

Contest Rules:

• Must be 18 years of age or younger to enter

• Entries must be hand printed legibly or typed

• Entries must be received before branch closing time on Friday, June 1, 2012

• Poems can be written in either English or Spanish

• Winners are selected from all entries received at every MCFL branch (not per school or library)

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