UTSPS Poet of the Year 2011 Lee C. Snell was born and raised in Cowley, Wyoming, located near the Big Horn Mountains. His experience in sports, music, drama, and other "farming community" activities provide a rich seedbed for some of his poems. He graduated from Brigham Young University in English with a minor in music before embarking on a thirty-five year teaching career. He has been director of the Utah State Poetry Society's Junior Creative Poetry Contest two different years, as well as Secretary of UTSPS once. Mr. Snell's poetry has won on the state and national levels and has been printed in several publications. He lives in Highland, Utah, with his wife, Nancy. Lola Haskins was judge for the 2011 Pearle M. Olsen Book Award. Ms. Haskins' comments: Night Wind Home is a transcendently honest meditation on the end of life. We all, the moment we’re born, begin that journey, but few of us travel as we slow with such grace. Listen to the poet, as he finally understands he cannot hold even his brother’s shadow:      I release it,      watch it whistle and soar down long hills      across strange and muddy rivers.      A moment passes unspoken,      like a sigh through blue twilight.      Brother, it is enough.