September 2024

Read Winning Poems from the OPA 2024 Spanish Contest

2024 OPA Spanish Contest – Winners 1st Place: Yuliana Kenfield (Gamarra Medrano), “Lluvias Oregonianas” 2nd Place: Jesús Sepúlveda, “Pandemónium” 3rd Place: Arturo Sarmiento, “Escape” Runners-up: Germán Rizo, “La oscuridad como destino” Efrain M. Diaz-Horna, “El buscador de sueños” Sonia Priscila Ticas, “Ondulaciones” Concepcion Samano, “Ciclo” JUDGEDr. Isabel Jaén Portill Dr. Isabel Jaén Portillo is Professor […]

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2024 – Spanish Contest First Place – Yuliana Kenfield (Gamarra Medrano)

Yuliana Kenfield (Gamarra Medrano) Yuliana Kenfield (Gamarra Medrano) nació en Cusco, Perú. Vive en los Estados Unidos desde el 2006. Yuliana fue paralegal de inmigración, maestra bilingüe, y capacitadora de maestros multilingües. Es madre de mellizos, a quienes los cría con los idiomas de su familia: castellano, inglés y quechua. Es autora de poesía, cuento, y un libro

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2024 – Spanish Contest 2nd Place – Jesús Sepúlveda

Jesús Sepúlveda Jesús Sepúlveda, autor del poema “Pandemónium”, ha publicado diecisiete libros, por mencionar algunos: El jardín de las peculiaridades (2002) y las antologías Poemas de un bárbaro (2013) y Poço de seda (2022). Su obra ha sido traducida a doce idiomas y publicada en una veintena de países, llevándolo a participar en numerosos festivales

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2024 – Spanish Contest 3rd place – Arturo Sarmiento

Arturo Sarmiento Arturo Sarmiento Linares nació en la Ciudad de México. Realizó sus estudios profesionales en Humanidades y Periodismo en la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana y en la UNAM. En 1992 obtiene la Licencia Federal de Locutor de Radio y Televisión. Actualmente es Director de Radio Poder KTUP y es miembro del Instituto

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NFSPS Submittable Survey

Due 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 annual contests over the next three years. Please complete this survey to help NFSPS plan that transition and best meet your needs! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5ckhLLEEDMG8PW23O7JGS442ma3j9g0tF4JuZNVxw3wtiKw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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NFSPS October 2024 Strophes and Contest Deadlines

The 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 pdf posted at https://nfsps.com/Strophes.html as well. If these links don’t work for you, navigate to the nfsps.net home page and click the Current Strophes button in the menu. As always, this issue

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Read Winning Poems from the OPA 2024 Poet’s Choice Category

2024 OPA Adult Contest – Oregon Poets Choice Category – Winners Judge’s Overall Comments: The Poet’s Choice selection was a cross-section of the best of contemporary American poetry—free verse, formal verse, special forms such as the Golden Shovel and Abecedarian, poems of memory, nature poems, ecopoems, spiritual poems, political poems, humorous poems, including limericks, and

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2024 – Oregon Poet’s Choice First Place – Connie Soper

Chiaroscuro Of course I remember Firenze—outside and in. And I remember getting here, too, sleeping on second-class trains with a cheap leather coat as my pillow. Marguerite and I stayed up all night, writing in diaries by the light of little white candles stolen from churches. Words I lost a long time ago. We swore

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