President’s Report Jan. 18, 2022 OPA website. As Rana will tell you later, we have successfully debuted the new website and received many compliments. I have been working on events and comments and other posts, and the site works, so bravo to our website crew. NFSPS presidents’ meeting. We met on Saturday, Jan. 15, and …
David J.S. Pickering’s collection, “Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland” (Airlie Press, 09/2021), was reviewed at Colorado State University’s Center for Literary Publishing.Read the review here: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/jesus-comes-to-me-as-judy-garland/
Firefly Lanterns: Twelve Years in Kyoto In 1980, having spent two years traveling the globe, Margaret Chula and her husband, John Hall, agreed that they wanted to live and work in a different culture for an extended period. They chose Japan. Chula was drawn to the subtleties of Japanese poetry and to …
Oregon born and residing Richard Lee Granvold of Albany, Oregon has had two poetry books published in 2021, One in May and on Dec. 31. Of Time and Angels and Kill The Gun/Peace Is A World Wide War. These books are published by North Orchard Press.https://www.northorchardpress.com
Here is the link to Susan Kay Anderson’s poem about bees, published in Heron Tree: “The Problem”
Read the winning poems from OPA’s theme category in the Fall 2021 contest.
Callie Comes of Age is a haunting coming-of-age story that could fool you with its lyrical, almost casual language. Prepare your heart. It is full of a staggering anguish. When significant people die, it is a shattering experience for Callie, the young protagonist of Dale Champlin’s collection, who had already lost the three great loves of her life/and she’s just turned fifteen (“Callie Writes the Novel of Her Life”).
In Stealing Flowers from the Neighbors, Portland poet Sherri Levine proves that she understands the Rumi epigram that introduces her book: You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. The result is a series of 53 poems that testify about difficult themes that include mental illness and the death of a parent.
