June 2025

The Stafford Challenge Anthology: 2024-25 Anthology, Reviewed by M. L. Lyons

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Reviewed by M. L. Lyons The Stafford Challenge Anthology: 2024-25 Anthology Edited by Brian Rohr Wild Poet Press, 2025, 257 pages, $22.95 Print ISBN: 979-8-9985119-0-5 Ebook ISBN: 979-8-9985119-1-2 Available at https://wildpoetpress.com/anthology/ Some anthologies are like bouquets: artfully arranged around a theme to create a desired effect. Others explore a new field of interest, giving a […]

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Pop-Up Shrines, is being published by Finishing Line Press

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OPA Member, Linda Drach, of Beaverton is excited to announce that her poetry collection, Pop-Up Shrines, is being published by Finishing Line Press. The book is available for pre-order now through August 1st at: https://track.pstmrk.it/3ts/www.finishinglinepress.com%2Fproduct%2Fpop-up-shrines-by-linda-drach%2F./UKW0/7Di_AQ/AQ/529194b9-ce37-45ae-8454-ecd67b0316fd/1/FceQW-uu8u Pop-Up Shrines explores how illness and disability coexist with new rooms of discovery and resilience. It’s an exploration of life’s

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OPA 2025 SUMMER/FALL POETRY CONTEST – Now Open – Deadline July 28

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OPA is thrilled to announce four categories and four judges for entries in this year’s contest: 1) OREGON Poet’s Choice: one poem / two pages maximum, any subject, any form. Entrant must have current Oregon mailing address. Judge: Ellen Waterston (Oregon’s Poet Laureate) 2) Members Only: one poem / one page maximum, any subject, any

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Isadora: A Tragedy in Three Acts by Dale Champlin, Reviewed by Judith H. Montgomery

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Reviewed by Judith H. Montgomery Isadora: A Tragedy in Three Acts by Dale Champlin Just a Lark Books, 2022, 111 pages, $15.00 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8887573540 Available at https://www.amazon.com/Isadora-DaleChamplin/dp/B0B7HF2XCH/ref=sr_1_6? “The poem,” writes Robert Frost in 1939, “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” Dale Champlin offers both in this fabulously imagined series of spirited “conversations”

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