MOST RECENT OPA NEWS

• Oregon Poetry Association Poetry Contest Spring 2020 Winners

  OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them
  and all the poets who entered for sharing their work.

  www.oregonpoets.org

                                        Contest Chair: Stella Jeng Guillory

  Poet’s Choice — Lynn Otto, Judge

  1^st Place: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” by Barbara Blanks, Garland, TX

  2^nd Place: “Arachnidæa: Line Drawings” by Stephen Pollock, Mebane, NC

  3^rd Place: “Mind Gloss” by David Hedges, West Lynn, OR

  Honorable Mentions

  1^st Honorable Mention: “Missing” by Suzanne Sigafoos, Portland, OR

  2^nd Honorable Mention: “Women’s Day at the Sauna” by Michelle Williams, Portland, OR

  3^rd Honorable Mention: “Facing Backward on the Train” by Dan Kaufman, Central Point, OR

  Members Only — Andrea Hollander, Judge

  1^st Place: “Cradling Dad” ... Read all of this item.

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MEMBER NEWS

• Posted: April 27, 2020
  

  Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare’s Stable, by Tiel Aisha Ansari: Now ready for pre-order

  Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare’s Stable is now available for pre-order from Barefoot Muse, http://www.barefootmuse.com/chapbooks.htm

  

LATEST BOOK REVIEW (EXCERPT)

• Bee Dance by Cathy Cain, reviewed by Paul Telles

  

  Bee Dance by Cathy Cain

  The Poetry Box (June
  15, 2019), 87 pp, $16

  ISBN #: 978-1948461221

  Available at: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/bee-dance

  In Bee
  Dance, Portland poet Cathy Cain brings a fresh take to one of the most venerable
  themes in modern poetry: the troubled relationship between the natural world
  and human society.In 51 tightly crafted poems, Cain explores her theme
  from a full circuit of perspectives, contemplating such issues as the link
  between poetic creativity and natural genesis, the alienation engendered by
  digital technology, and the generative power of women.

  From its very first poem “Hint of Hexagon,” Bee Dance leaves no doubt about
  its primary concern: the lack of harmony between nature and human creations.
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MOST RECENT POET’S SPOTLIGHT

• 2020 Spring Contest Winners: Members Only: 3rd Place Winner

  May 28, 2020

  Dawn Donuts

  Dan Kaufman

  I didn’t figure my universe then

  as donut shaped, a single surface torus,

  iced. Predawn, I’d slip the grip of her Berkeley bed

  for Petaluma in my postal blues,

  two donuts waxy-sacked beside me

  as I drove the arc of an exitless bridge,

  my fingers licked innocent, obeying

  what I couldn’t kick. Clocking in,

  then endless letters later out, my sleepless body

  spent. Those days I plied a quirked geometry,

  her siren spacetime folding me into confection,

  sugar shapes that jacked my flexes. One maple,

  one glazed, empty sweetness from Derby Donuts,

  the sticky disorienting business