Poetry readings need not be boring. The National Federation of State Poetry Societies invites all poets to try blending a little theater with their poetry for the 2022 BlackBerryPeach Prizes for Poetry: Spoken and Heard. The contest deadline is March 15. Winners win cash awards, $1,000 for first place, $500 for second, and $250 for […]
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Let Widows be Widows is a collection of poetry in five sections. This collection is about the dead and the living. It illuminates various states of loss, hope, love and mourning from diverse points of view. It begins with denial. A door closing. Happenstance. We are unaware or under-aware of terminal illness or the shock of an unexpected sudden death. Words that we have left unsaid.
OPA member Laura LeHew’s new book out from Unsolicited Press Read More »
Frank Rossini’s collection, “Last Confession” (sight | for | sight books, 03/2021), was reviewed by Thomas Hubbard for Raven Chronicles Press.
Carey Taylor’s poem “Birthday Fires” wins 2022 Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize Read More »
A call to all women who have experienced abuse in any of its many
forms. Please submit your original works of journey and survival.
All submissions will be treated as confidential.
Dave Mehler is a good writer, a good poet. He writes about his life as a long-haul truck driver. He writes about people struggling with a real life of sequential cigarette breaks between stretches with a hand truck or a forklift, lifting with their arms and backs. Nothing grand. No Great Captains of Industry, no millionaire heart surgeons, no war heroes.
Roadworthy, by Dave Mehler, reviewed by Zeke Sanchez Read More »
Frank Rossini’s collection, “Last Confession” (sight | for | sight books, 03/2021), was reviewed by Thomas Hubbard for Raven Chronicles Press.
Frank Rossini’s book reviewed by Thomas Hubbard for Raven Chronicles Press Read More »
Just a reminder that we are hosting two nights of OPA readings for our Verseweavers 2020 winners starting tonight February 1st, at 7:00pm PST. The second reading will be Thursday, February 3rd at 7:00pm PST. Head to our events page to register for the Zoom link!
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The epigraph, “I am haunted by waters,” from Norman Maclean’s masterpiece novella, A River Runs through It, prepares readers of Gary Lark’s Daybreak on the Water for a book about fishing and family. As in Maclean’s book, the water is fresh and, in Daybreak’s case, so is the Umpqua River and its tributaries in Southern Oregon where Lark grew up. Water in various locations––rivers, estuaries, the Pacific ocean—runs through all of Lark’s books of poetry. In fact, four of the seven include water in the title: Tasting the River in the Salmon’s Flesh, River of Solace, Easter Creek, and Daybreak on the Water.
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