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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- 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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- 4Poetry 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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- 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 , ...Word Open Mic7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Share 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 , ... - 9
- 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 , ...
- 11Poetry 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 pmScot Siegel is a city planner and author of four full-length books of poetry, most recently, Tender Currencies, winner of the 2024 Sally Albiso Award from Concrete Wolf-MoonPath Press, and The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2016). He has received fellowship residencies through Oregon Sta , ...
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- 15Salem Poetry Project featuring Paint & Write the Town7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
For the past eight summers, writers have joined visual artists in creating works inspired by gardens, parks, wineries, and other locations around Salem. Several poets who have participated in these annual Paint & Write the Town events will read their favorites from among the poems they have written or started en pl , ... - 16
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- 18Poetry 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. , ...
- 19Open Mic Nite at Memorial Middle School6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Memorial Middle School Poetry Club invites you to join us May 19th, at 6:30 for an evening of poetry! This free event is open to the public! Please come read and/or listen. Please bear in mind that this is happening at a middle school. Edgy is okay, but poems should be suitable for all ages…. For more info, t , ...In 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. , ... - 20
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Allisa Cherry, author of An Exodus of Sparks and the 2024 Wheelbarrow Books poetry prize winner, has work in journals such as The McNeese Review, TriQuarterly, and The Penn Review. Based in Portland, she teaches classes and workshops for immigrants and refugees and is a poetry editor at West Trade Review. The Salem Poe , ... - 23
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- 25Poetry 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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- 29Salem Poetry Project featuring Carey Taylor and Connie Soper7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Carey Taylor is the author of Some Aid to Navigation and The Lure of Impermanence. She is the winner of the 2022 Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, runner-up for the Concrete Wolf Louis Poetry Book Award, and has had her poems curated both nationally and internationally. She , ... - 30
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