Organization News
- 2025 OPA Poetry Contest WinnersOPA is thrilled to post all of the winners and honorable mentions from the 2025 contests! OPA National Poetry Month Contest (judged by Emmet Wheatfall) 1st Place: “Mary Magdalene Has… Read more: 2025 OPA Poetry Contest Winners
- OPA 2025 Conference Workshops Announced!This year there are twelve workshop sessions, including four with either Spanish or Bilingual presentations. We will be posting a detailed description of each presentation with a biography of the… Read more: OPA 2025 Conference Workshops Announced!
- OPA Changes to Constitution and Bylaws – ApprovedAt the 2024 annual meeting, members had approved a motion to allow making changes to the OPA Constitution and Bylaws through a secure poll sent to current members. After an… Read more: OPA Changes to Constitution and Bylaws – Approved
- Call for New OPA Board Members – open until July 31st2026 will be the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Oregon Poetry Association! There could be no better year for you and your colleagues to consider joining the OPA… Read more: Call for New OPA Board Members – open until July 31st
- OPA 2025 SUMMER/FALL POETRY CONTEST – Now Open – Deadline July 28OPA is thrilled to announce four categories and four judges for entries in this year’s contest: 1) OREGON Poet’s Choice: one poem / two pages maximum, any subject, any form.… Read more: OPA 2025 SUMMER/FALL POETRY CONTEST – Now Open – Deadline July 28
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- 28Poetry in the Round12:30 pm - 2:00 pmA casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...Humble Poets’ Open Mic4:00 pm - 6:00 pmThe Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...
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- 2Salem Poetry Project featuring Rebecca Bluemel8:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Rebecca Bluemel is a Gateless© certified facilitator, group leader, and writing coach. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her two adorable gingers, leads a current series of generative writing workshops virtually, and owns and operates her pet sitting business, Home Sweet Home Pet Care. Her book, Excoriation, and chapb , ... - 3
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- 5Poetry in the Round12:30 pm - 2:00 pmA casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
- 6Words and Wine Reading at the Chemeketa Cellar Tasting Room1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
2025’s vintage of Word and Wine features creative non-fiction and a blend of poetry, Saturday October 25 at 1:00. Three excellent writers will present their work, in the Riesling Room. This is an opportunity to have wine, maybe a bite and hear essays from Simmons Buntin, the poetry Ingrid Wendt, and the bi-lingual poet , ... - 7
- 8Poetry Night at McMinnville Public Library6:00 pm - 8:00 pmSince 2013 we’ve been meeting once a month in McMinnville. We start each evening with a reading from a featured poet, followed by an open mic from the audience. In 2025, we meet on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 6 pm. 2025 Featured Poets Jan 9: Richard Robbins Feb 13: Bethany Lee Mar 13: John Van Dreal Apr , ...
- 9Salem Poetry Project featuring Rosa Lane7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Rosa Lane is author of Called Back (Tupelo Press, 2024) in queer conversation with Dickinson, winner, 2025 Maine Poetry Book Award; Chouteau’s Chalk (UGP, 2019), winner, Georgia Poetry Prize; Tiller North (Sixteen Rivers, 2016), winner, NIEA Book Award; and Roots and Reckonings. Other published work has appeared , ... - 10Petrichor’s Child: Within and the Written6:30 pmAn active poetry workshop entitled Petrichor’s Child: Within and the Written will be held monthly on the second Monday of every month, beginning Monday February 10th at 6.30 at Portland Arts Collective, in downtown Portland at 122 NW Couch Street. There are resources guiding our practice and a unique visual monta , ...
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- 12Poetry in the Round12:30 pm - 2:00 pmA casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...The Studio Series Poetry Reading & Open Mic7:00 pmFeaturing Rosa Lane and Laura Sciortino Rosa Lane is author of four poetry collections including Called Back, winner of the 2025 Maine Literary Award, published by Tupelo Press in 2024, in queer conversation with Emily Dickinson; Chouteau’s Chalk, winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize, published by the University o , ...
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- 16In Memory Reading Series7:00 pm - 9:00 pmLive featured poet series, with open mic. This month the feature is celebrated Oregon poet Emmett Wheatfall Hawthorne Hideaway (Red Room performance space) 2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd. , ...Salem Poetry Project featuring Nadene LeCheminant7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Nadene LeCheminant’s poetry seeks to capture grief at the accumulating losses suffered by our planet’s wildlife and flora, and joy at the abundant beauty and refuge still offered by the Earth. Her debut novel, The Gates of Eden, was praised by the San Francisco Book Review as a “well-researched, beautifully written his , ... - 17
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- 19Poetry in the Round12:30 pm - 2:00 pmA casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
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- 23Salem Poetry Project featuring Carmen Rojas Larrazábal7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Carmen Rojas Larrazábal is a poet, cultural coordinator, anthologist and editor from Venezuela. She holds specializations in English literature, Chicano studies, and Afro- American Literature. Larrazabal has founded founded Artepoesía por La Paz in the US, El Arco & La Flecha Editores, poetry publishing House, The , ... - 24
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- 26Poetry in the Round12:30 pm - 2:00 pmA casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...Humble Poets’ Open Mic4:00 pm - 6:00 pmThe Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...
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- 30Salem Poetry Project Shawn Aveningo Sanders7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Shawn Aveningo Sanders’ newest book, Pockets (from MoonPath Press), was a finalist in Concrete Wolf’s Chapbook Contest. Over 250 of her poems have appeared in journals such as Cloudbank, CALYX, cho: contemporary haibun online, Timberline Review, Willawaw, and others. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nomine , ... - 31Rain & Zoe Save the World7:30 pm - 12:00 am
By Crystal Skillman Two Washington State teenage climate activists embark on an impulsive motorcycle journey to join a group of oil protesters on the East Coast. As they follow a major pipeline across the country, what began as two young environmentalists’ longing to belong to something greater than themselves g , ... - 1Rain & Zoe Save the World7:30 pm - 12:00 amBy Crystal Skillman Two Washington State teenage climate activists embark on an impulsive motorcycle journey to join a group of oil protesters on the East Coast. As they follow a major pipeline across the country, what began as two young environmentalists’ longing to belong to something greater than themselves g , ...Rain & Zoe Save the WorldAll DayBy Crystal Skillman Two Washington State teenage climate activists embark on an impulsive motorcycle journey to join a group of oil protesters on the East Coast. As they follow a major pipeline across the country, what began as two young environmentalists’ longing to belong to something greater than themselves g , ...