Helen Blackshear, left, and Helen Norris, the eighth and ninth Poets Laureate of Alabama, respectively.Blackshear (1911-2003) hailed from Tuscaloosa, and Norris (1916-2013) was born and raised in Montgomery.
Helen Blackshear and Helen Norris
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Courtesy of the Alabama Writers Conclave Archives
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