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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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- 5Salem Poetry Project at Marco Polo Featuring Double Takes Poets7:00 pm - 9:00 pmA group reading by Double Takes poets, with projected images of accompanying visual artworks. Poetry and visual art combine in Double Takes, the Mid-Valley Poetry Society’s 2025 weekly planner, which contains a poem and an accompanying painting, photograph, or drawing for every month. Hear poems by Colette Tennant, Da , ...
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- 8Poetry 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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- 12Salem Poetry Project at Marco Polo Featuring Susan Kay Anderson7:00 pm - 9:00 pmSusan Kay Anderson resides at the headwaters of Sutherlin Creek in the Umpqua River Basin. Her poetry book, Mezzanine, features her work as a graveyard-shift custodian at a university. She is the Senior Reviews Editor at Harbor Review and reads poetry submissions for Lily Poetry Review and Quarterly West. For the month , ...
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- 15Poetry 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. , ...Colors in Nature: Poets of the 2025 Oregon Poetry Calendar1:30 pm - 2:30 pmYou are invited to a reading by the poets of the 2026 Oregon Poetry Calendar on Sunday, December 15 in Beaverton. Eight poets will read and we’ll have refreshments and a small drawing for some fun writerly gifts. The Calendar will be available for sale at a reduced price, too. Readers include: Geraldine Foote , ...
- 16In 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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- 19Salem Poetry Project at Marco Polo Featuring Holiday Poems7:00 pm - 9:00 pmYou are the featured reader! Bring your favorite poem about Christmas, Hanukah, Thanksgiving…Festivus and maybe a little story about it. We will also have the regular open mic so have some poems ready, we will keep reading until we run out. For the month of December the Salem Poetry Project will meet at Marco Polo Glob , ...
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- 29Poetry 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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