The Way Donna Prinzmetal The way light from the window touches the dust and the dust hangs there, a promise or a threat. The way a hand hovers above a thigh but doesn’t descend and doesn’t and doesn’t and then does. The way a candle flickers, its bright conversation, sheets tangle like roots in and […]
2020 Spring Contest Winners: Theme – Anticipation: 3rd Place Winner Read More »
Judged by John Brehm 1st Honorable Mention: “Anticipation Spells” by Linda Ferguson 2nd Honorable Mention: “The Pleasures of Whorehouse Meadow” by David Hedges 3rd Honorable Mention: “The Things We Do to Generate Hope” by Michelle Williams
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OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks themand all the poets who entered for sharing their work. www.wordpress-687676-2268923.cloudwaysapps.com Contest Chair: Stella Jeng Guillory Poet’s Choice — Lynn Otto, Judge 1st Place: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” by Barbara Blanks, Garland, TX 2nd Place: “Arachnidæa: Line Drawings” by Stephen Pollock, Mebane, NC 3rd Place: “Mind
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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,
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