Cimmeion Patty, third-place winner of the 2007 Cotton District Literary Festival Poetry Competition, delivers his poem, "Known but Misunderstood," in the John Grisham Room. Madeline Golden watches from the desk behind the podium.
(l. to r.) Lyle Tate, coordinator of the 2007 Cotton District Literary Festival; Sanitra Lawrence, second-place Poetry Competition winner; Robert Dalby, special guest speaker and Oxford, MS, author; Jonte Bouchard, first-place Poetry Competition...