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- Meet the new OPA Board members!We’re pleased to announce the results of the elections held earlier this month. In addition to the appointment of David Goodrum as President and Steve Slemenda, a new member, as… Read more: Meet the new OPA Board members!
- NFSPS Submittable SurveyDue to rising costs and unreliability of mail service, and the time and effort required by unpaid volunteers to manage paper submissions, NFSPS plans to transition to online-only submissions for… Read more: NFSPS Submittable Survey
- NFSPS October 2024 Strophes and Contest DeadlinesThe October 2024 issue of Strophes has been posted. It’s available at: https://nfsps.net/current-strophes or https://nfsps.com/Strophes.html. The issue posted at nfsps.net is a flipbook, meaning it has different features. There is a standard… Read more: NFSPS October 2024 Strophes and Contest Deadlines
- 2024 OPA Adult Contest ResultsThanks to everyone who entered the Oregon Poetry Association’s 2024 Adult Fall Contest. This year we received over 300 poems for the Fall Contest, a very competitive pool. Winners will… Read more: 2024 OPA Adult Contest Results
- Lines in the Sand Workshop DescriptionsWorkshops for the OPA Annual Conference, Lines in the Sand, have been announced. Learn about the eight exciting workshops and read the presenter bios. Read more about the conference keynotes,… Read more: Lines in the Sand Workshop Descriptions
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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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- 28Prompt @ Powell’s City of Books6:00 pm - 6:00 pmMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing! Prompt is an 8-week writing group full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback, hosted behind-the-scenes at Powell’s City of Books! With accountability and community built in – as well as a huge selection of books for inspiration – you’ll be sure to come aw , ...
- 29Prompt Online: Fresh Eyes, Bold Strides (START)All DayMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing. Prompt is an 8-week series of connected workshops full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback. With accountability and community built in, you’ll be able to bundle up all your holiday memories and turn them into beautiful art. Join us over Zoom, and let’s , ...
- 30Salem Poetry Project Featuring Charles Carter7:00 am - 9:00 pmCharles K. Carter is a queer poet who lives in Oregon. They are the author of The God of Loneliness (Rebel Satori Press), If the World Were a Quilt (Kelsay Books), and Read My Lips (David Robert Books) as well as several chapbooks. Carter can be found on Instagram @CKCpoetry. The Salem Poetry Project continues at the B , ...
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- 2Poetry 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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- 4Prompt @ Powell’s City of Books6:00 pm - 6:00 pmMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing! Prompt is an 8-week writing group full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback, hosted behind-the-scenes at Powell’s City of Books! With accountability and community built in – as well as a huge selection of books for inspiration – you’ll be sure to come aw , ...
- 5Prompt Online: Fresh Eyes, Bold Strides (START)All DayMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing. Prompt is an 8-week series of connected workshops full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback. With accountability and community built in, you’ll be able to bundle up all your holiday memories and turn them into beautiful art. Join us over Zoom, and let’s , ...
- 6Salem Poetry Project Featuring Mortality Poems Anthology7:00 pm - 9:00 pmMortality Poems is the newest anthology edited by Veronica Esagui. The Salem launch of this book features the following critically acclaimed poets from the Pacific Northwest: Amalie R. Hill, Billie Shultz, David Rutiezer, Genie Gabriel, Kc Gloer, Marc Janssen, Shirley Marc, and Veronica Esagui. The Salem Poetry Project , ...
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- 9Poetry 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 pm - 7:00 pmDan Raphael is the author of 26 books of poetry, most recently In the Wordshed (Last Word Press) and Maps Menus Emanations (cyberwit), which he’ll be reading from tonight. Dan is one of the hosts of KBOO’s Talking Earth, America’s (if not the world’s) longest running radio poetry show. Also, most , ...
- 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 , ...
- 11Prompt @ Powell’s City of Books6:00 pm - 6:00 pmMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing! Prompt is an 8-week writing group full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback, hosted behind-the-scenes at Powell’s City of Books! With accountability and community built in – as well as a huge selection of books for inspiration – you’ll be sure to come aw , ...
- 12Prompt Online: Fresh Eyes, Bold Strides (START)All DayMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing. Prompt is an 8-week series of connected workshops full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback. With accountability and community built in, you’ll be able to bundle up all your holiday memories and turn them into beautiful art. Join us over Zoom, and let’s , ...
- 13Word Open Mic7:00 pm - 9:00 pmShare your words in sweet community at our monthly open mic emceed by spoken word poet Jorah LaFleur. No matter your genre or form – poetry, fiction, storytelling, spoken word, or prose – you’re invited to share your work in our monthly open mic. Hear what your fellow wordsmiths have been working on and support your li , ...Salem Poetry Project featuring Jasper Beck7:00 pm - 9:00 pmJasper Beck grew up in rural Oregon, graduating with honors from Western Oregon University with a degree in English. He received the 2023 Peter Sears Prize for Poetry, and won the 2024 NFSPS College Undergraduate Poetry Competition. He is the assistant editor for the online literary magazine Traverse. The Salem Poetry , ...
- 14Get Your Heart Spoken4:30 pm - 12:00 amFrom blank page to center stage, a spoken word poetry intensive with Jorah LaFleur. What if this Valentine’s Day could be a portal into penning with passion and letting your heart be heard? Over the course of Valentines Day weekend with Jorah LaFleur (voted the Best Poet in Eugene!), you’ll move from a blank page to sh , ...
- 15Get Your Heart SpokenAll DayFrom blank page to center stage, a spoken word poetry intensive with Jorah LaFleur. What if this Valentine’s Day could be a portal into penning with passion and letting your heart be heard? Over the course of Valentines Day weekend with Jorah LaFleur (voted the Best Poet in Eugene!), you’ll move from a blank page to sh , ...
- 16Poetry 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. , ...Get Your Heart Spoken12:00 am - 5:30 pmFrom blank page to center stage, a spoken word poetry intensive with Jorah LaFleur. What if this Valentine’s Day could be a portal into penning with passion and letting your heart be heard? Over the course of Valentines Day weekend with Jorah LaFleur (voted the Best Poet in Eugene!), you’ll move from a blank page to sh , ...
- 17In Memory – Alberta Street Pub reading series7:00 pm - 11:00 pmPoetry open mic reading series, with a focus on remembering the poets who inspired and influenced us, both personally and historically. , ...
- 18Prompt @ Powell’s City of Books6:00 pm - 6:00 pmMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing! Prompt is an 8-week writing group full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback, hosted behind-the-scenes at Powell’s City of Books! With accountability and community built in – as well as a huge selection of books for inspiration – you’ll be sure to come aw , ...
- 19Prompt Online: Fresh Eyes, Bold Strides (START)All DayMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing. Prompt is an 8-week series of connected workshops full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback. With accountability and community built in, you’ll be able to bundle up all your holiday memories and turn them into beautiful art. Join us over Zoom, and let’s , ...
- 20Salem Poetry Project featuring Bruce Parker and Diane Corson7:00 pm - 9:00 pmBruce Parker’s chapbooks are Ramadan in Summer, (Finishing Line Press, 2022) and Tears for Things (Plan B Press, 2024). Widely published, his work is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner. He is an associate editor at Boulevard and a past president of the Oregon Poetry Association (2020). Diane Corson was on the execu , ...
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- 23Poetry 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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- 25Prompt @ Powell’s City of Books6:00 pm - 6:00 pmMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing! Prompt is an 8-week writing group full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback, hosted behind-the-scenes at Powell’s City of Books! With accountability and community built in – as well as a huge selection of books for inspiration – you’ll be sure to come aw , ...
- 26Prompt Online: Fresh Eyes, Bold Strides (START)All DayMake 2025 the year you commit to your writing. Prompt is an 8-week series of connected workshops full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback. With accountability and community built in, you’ll be able to bundle up all your holiday memories and turn them into beautiful art. Join us over Zoom, and let’s , ...
- 27Next Generation Short Story AwardsAll DayThe Next Generation Short Story Awards, currently in its second year, is a not-for-profit international awards program for authors of short stories. The Short Story Awards is now accepting entries, i.e. short stories and poems in English (5000 words or less) for the 2025 awards program in 30+ categories. The entry dead , ...Poetry of Childhood4:30 pm - 6:30 pmIn this workshop, suitable for poets of all skill levels/publication histories, we will read and discuss some poems that focus on childhood from a diverse group of poets. With those poems and prompts the workshop leader will supply, participants will then write (and share if they wish to) their own poems. This is a fun , ...Salem Poetry Festival5:00 pm - 12:00 amSalem Poetry Festival February 27 through March 1 The Salem Poetry Festival includes three days of poetry events located in Salem, Oregon. All the happenings are free. See Below for a short description of events. For more information visit the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571465476438 See , ...
- 28Salem Poetry FestivalAll DaySalem Poetry Festival February 27 through March 1 The Salem Poetry Festival includes three days of poetry events located in Salem, Oregon. All the happenings are free. See Below for a short description of events. For more information visit the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571465476438 See , ...
- 1Salem Poetry Festival12:00 am - 6:00 pmSalem Poetry Festival February 27 through March 1 The Salem Poetry Festival includes three days of poetry events located in Salem, Oregon. All the happenings are free. See Below for a short description of events. For more information visit the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571465476438 See , ...