Organization News
- Special Poetry Night at The Arts Center of Corvallis on April 17, 2025The Oregon Poetry Association in partnership with The Arts Center of Corvallis is celebrating national poetry month with a special poetry night on Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 5:30- 7:30p, featuring… Read more: Special Poetry Night at The Arts Center of Corvallis on April 17, 2025
- OPA National Poetry Month Contest for Members OnlyA new poetry contest opens on March 10 through April 14th for OPA members only in celebration of National Poetry Month. The contest has been sponsored by an anonymous donor.… Read more: OPA National Poetry Month Contest for Members Only
- OPA Cascadia Youth Poetry Contest – Open!The OPA Youth Poetry Contest opened on Sunday through May 2nd! Contest co-chairs (and board members) Julia Gaskill and Ty Brack are hoping you will encourage your kids and/or grandkids,… Read more: OPA Cascadia Youth Poetry Contest – Open!
- A Quick Update on the OPAIn the spirit of posting more frequently this year… In early 2025, the OPA board established several key activities for the year: The 25th Cascadia Youth Poetry Contest and its… Read more: A Quick Update on the OPA
- 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!
Community Calendar
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- 30Poetry 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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- 3Salem Poetry Project featuring Paul Suter7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Paul Suter’s roots are in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned an MA in English at UC Berkeley, 1970, and completed a Fellowship preparing community college English instructors at the University of Nebraska, 1971. He taught composition, American literature and environmental literature at Chemeketa CC. Today he copy-ed , ... - 4SMEOP: A Journey Accompanied by Music5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Emeritus Professor of Music Aaron Beck will present a lecture/performance of his recent research on medieval storytelling followed by his melodrama called SMEOP, a collection of his poetry with original music by Jude Abare ’24 and his amazing jazz trio. The event will begin with an exploration of the so-called 1/2 stor , ...The Con Grazia Wind Quintet collaborate with poet Emmett Wheatfall!5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
The Con Grazia Wind Quintet of the Oregon Chamber Players are excited to announce their collaboration with poet Emmett Wheatfall! He will read his own selected works – some WITH our music that will include Haydn, Joplin, Gershwin, and Ellington! Mr. Wheatfall’s poems will include “Peruvian”, , ... - 5Book Sale Featuring Poets of the Oregon Poetry Calendar11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Come and browse books published by these talented poets whose work has been published in the Oregon Poetry Calendar: Amelia Diaz Ettinger, Geraldine Foote, Trina Gaynon, David A. Goodrum, Melanie Green, Donna Henderson, Judith Montgomery, Francis Opila, Paulann Petersen, Carlos Reyes, and Emmett Wheatfall. Some books , ...Tiffany Mills Dance Residency7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Tiffany Mills and the NYC-based Tiffany Mills Company has created over 20 works performed with a “fearless sense of freedom and exhilaration” (Washington Post). Mills’ process of creation is collaborative, ensemble-based, and multidisciplinary. She collaborates to blur lines between mediums and to discover layered meth , ...
- 6Poetry 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. , ...Tiffany Mills Dance Residency7:30 pm - 9:00 pmTiffany Mills and the NYC-based Tiffany Mills Company has created over 20 works performed with a “fearless sense of freedom and exhilaration” (Washington Post). Mills’ process of creation is collaborative, ensemble-based, and multidisciplinary. She collaborates to blur lines between mediums and to discover layered meth , ...
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- 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 , ...Contradictions from an Uncertain Silence Book Launch & Signing – Emmett Wheatfall7:00 pm - 8:30 pmYou are cordially invited to attend a Book Launch and Signing at The Public Will Building in Portland, 7-8:30 pm. In Contradictions from an Uncertain Silence, Wheatfall takes poetic inspiration from The Darkened Temple by Mari L’Esperance. “To enter the story feels like drowning and drowning is the only way to get ther , ...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 , ...
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- 13Poetry 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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- 17Poetry Night at The Art Center of Corvallis5:30 pm - 7:30 pmThe Oregon Poetry Association in partnership with The Arts Center of Corvallis is celebrating national poetry month with a special poetry night on Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 5:30- 7:30p, featuring these MFA poets from Oregon State University: Elyssa Cook, Anmol Priya Desai, Cheyenne Hollowell, Monique Lanier, Sam Olso , ...Salem Poetry Project featuring Triggerfish Critical Review7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Triggerfish Critical Review is an online literary arts and poetry journal established in 2009. We publish biannually (January/July), and feature one artist whose work appears on every page. Our poetry comes from practitioners around the world, and we encourage contributors to read and write peer reviews accompanying th , ... - 18
- 19Salem Poetry Project featuring Juan Cervantes Morales7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Juan Cervantes Morales, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the author of two poetry books: Voices of Freedom and Endless Word. He has been a member of the Silverton Poetry Association (2010-2018) and co-founder of Spiral Publishing. It is at this time a special guest as a reader and exponent of topics on poetry for students at , ...
- 20Poetry 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. , ...
- 21In 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. , ...
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- 24Salem Poetry Project featuring the Work of Three Ukrainian Poets: Serhiy Zhadan, Lyuba Yakimchuk, and Ostap Slyvynsky7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
This evening the work of three contemporary poets will be presented, Serhiy Zhadan, Lyuba Yakimchuk, and Ostap Slyvynsky. These were poems written in and around the warzone in Ukraine. Serhiy Zhadan was born in Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, in 1974. He is a Ukrainian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator. He has , ... - 25
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- 27Poetry 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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- 1Salem Poetry Project featuring M. Ann Reed7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Ann Reed taught IB English Literature, Theory of Knowledge and Theater Arts for various IB colleges overseas. Now an independent teacher/learner, she offers the Bio-Poetic Organic Unity Study of Literature in support of the Deep Ecology Movement for global and local academic students. Awarded a doctorate in Theater Art , ... - 2
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