NEIGHBORS
November 16, 2005
Daily Pilot, p A2
The 13th Annual National Senior Poet Laureate competition announced Charlene M. Ashendorf as the winner of the State of California Golden Poet Laureate Award. Ashendorf won for her poem "Ye Wei," which means "Wild Taste."
A grant writer who lists community activism as her passion, Ashendorf is a grass-roots organizer and advocate for seniors, youth and the arts.
Her first book, "Stories of Old," was published in the spring of 2005.
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