Happy Birthday Vera Long

Celebrate Vera Long’s is 85 today! Celebrate her birthday by reading her two 2006 Anderbo Poetry Prize-winning poems.

Now a widow, Vera has been writing Country Poetry for sixty years, living in rural Oklahoma. She has written poems about life and love, time and place and family life. Many of her poems can be found in various anthologies and on-line. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women for her poetry. Vera and her late husband, Othadell Long, were married almost 57 years. She still lives on their farm near her two children. She belongs to the Oklahoma Poetry Society and is Secretary of Stillwater Writers Group.