Poetic Obituaries: [Jack] Hayes, a longtime Roswell resident,

was a writer all his life. A poet since childhood, in 1991, he was a Georgia Poetry Award winner. He also won the national Rainmaker Prize for poetry and a scholarship to the prestigious Breadloaf Writers Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont, his son said.

from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Jack B. Hayes dies, 60, poet, reporter

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