Work Is Love Made Visible (West End Press, 2009) has been awarded the  2010 Western Heritage Award® (the “Wrangler” for Outstanding Poetry Book of 2009 by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum®.  The book has also been named a Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Awards. UPDATE: Work Is Love Made Visible won the 2010 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry!

See the press release from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame here.

See the list of Finalists for & Winners of the Oklahoma Book Awards here.

Photos: On the left, the “Wrangler” by award-winning Oklahoma sculptor John Free will soon find a home on our mantle!  Update: it has found a home on my mantle, along with the Oklahoma Book Award gold Medal.

On the right, my brother, sister, & me at the then Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1970.

Grandpa wanted us to wear our Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes to the cowboy museum.