MOST RECENT OPA NEWS
Fall Conference is ON!
Thanks to all who’ve registered, and especially to those who’ve sent donations. The October conference is ON!
Details, registration form, and schedule on the Conferences tab.
Group rate at the hotel may still be available, depending on availability: be sure to ask!
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MEMBER NEWS
- Posted: September 12, 2017
Just Published: Arn Strasser “Incidental Longing” and READING
On Thursday, Oct. 5th at 7pm at BROADWAY BOOKS I will be reading from my just published new collection, INCIDENTAL LONGING (Budding Branch Books). The books is available at Broadway Books, Powell’s City of Books, Cannon Beach Bookstore, Garden Fever and other independent outlets.
Hope you can make it!
LATEST BOOK REVIEW (EXCERPT)
No Acute Distress by Jennifer Richter, reviewed by Tiah Lindner Raphael
No Acute Distress by Jennifer Richter
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-13 #978-0809334827
2016, 67 pp, $15.95
Author website: www.jenniferrichterpoet.comReviewed by Tiah Lindner Raphael
From Disease to Ease: Transforming Pain into Resilience
Jennifer Richter’s second full-length collection, No Acute Distress, was published in 2016 by Southern Illinois University Press as part of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, Editor’s Selection. Following her first collection, Threshold, which won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, Open Competition, No Acute Distress centers around family, un/health, chronic disease, and the way in which these forces shape identity. The collection follows a single speaker in an arc of transformation, looking for the universal through the lens of intensely personal – and physical – experiences.Structurally, the book is divided into sections – “Family History,” “Admission,” “Examination,” “Complications,” “Release” – mirroring the inpatient intake and treatment process. Medical terminology is explored in all ... Read all of this item.
MOST RECENT POET’S SPOTLIGHT
Pat Banta: In Memoriam
August 28, 2016It’s our sad duty to announce that former OPA president, board member, and poet Pat Banta passed away in March of this year.
Patricia Banta was born on December 31, 1924 in Los Angeles, CA, the only child of Ernest G and Deloris (Éclair) Henry. She died March 25, 2016 in Roseburg.
She attended school at U.C.L.A where she received her teaching credential. She taught five and a half years in California before moving to Oregon in 1959. There she continued to teach until retiring in 1980.
Pat enjoyed poetry and her poems were widely published in numerous newspapers and literary magazines. She reviewed well known poets and their books for a variety of College Quarterlies.
OPA member Doreen Wiley writes:
REMEMBERING PATRICIA (GOW) BANTA
Pat Banta was active on the Oregon poetry scene in the mid-1960’s and 70’s when she and I worked on the OSPA board and served as presidents, as ... Read all of this item.