Organization News
- Call for New OPA Board Members – open until July 31st2026 will be the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Oregon Poetry Association! There could be no better year for you and your colleagues to consider joining the OPA… Read more: Call for New OPA Board Members – open until July 31st
- OPA 2025 SUMMER/FALL POETRY CONTEST – Now Open – Deadline July 28OPA 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.… Read more: OPA 2025 SUMMER/FALL POETRY CONTEST – Now Open – Deadline July 28
- NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN FOR OPA’S PATRICIA RUTH BANTA AWARDDo you know of an individual or group who deserves recognition for their contributions to the culture of poetry in Oregon? Consider nominating them for OPA’s Patricia Ruth Banta Award,… Read more: NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN FOR OPA’S PATRICIA RUTH BANTA AWARD
- CONCURSO DE POESÍA EN ESPAÑOL 2025 / SPANISH POETRY CONTESTCONCURSO DE POESÍA EN ESPAÑOL 2025 Una vez más, la Asociación de Poesía de Oregón abre sus puertas a la comunidad hispana y te invita cordialmente a participar en su… Read more: CONCURSO DE POESÍA EN ESPAÑOL 2025 / SPANISH POETRY CONTEST
- Special Poetry Night at The Arts Center of Corvallis on April 17, 2025The Oregon Poetry Association in partnership with The Arts Center of Corvallis is celebrating national poetry month with a special poetry night on Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 5:30- 7:30p, featuring… Read more: Special Poetry Night at The Arts Center of Corvallis on April 17, 2025
Community Calendar
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- 29Poetry in the Round12:30 pm - 2:00 pmA casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...Humble Poets’ Open Mic4:00 pm - 6:00 pmThe Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...
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- 3Salem Poetry Project featuring Steven Robert Heine read by Marc Janssen7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
More than forty years ago, an unemployed cannery worker named Steven Robert Heine burst onto the publishing scene in Oregon as one of three Salem cartoonists. From 1978 to 1981 Heine became the first author to appear at the Oregon State Fair, selling his poetry books and meeting thousands of fairgoers. Eventually Heine , ... - 4
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- 6Poetry in the Round12:30 pm - 2:00 pmA casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
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- 8Poetry Night at McMinnville Public Library6:00 pm - 8:00 pmSince 2013 we’ve been meeting once a month in McMinnville. We start each evening with a reading from a featured poet, followed by an open mic from the audience. In 2025, we meet on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 6 pm. 2025 Featured Poets Jan 9: Richard Robbins Feb 13: Bethany Lee Mar 13: John Van Dreal Apr , ...
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- 10Petrichor’s Child: Within and the Written6:30 pmAn active poetry workshop entitled Petrichor’s Child: Within and the Written will be held monthly on the second Monday of every month, beginning Monday February 10th at 6.30 at Portland Arts Collective, in downtown Portland at 122 NW Couch Street. There are resources guiding our practice and a unique visual monta , ...Salem Poetry Project Featuring Brian Rohr7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Brian Rohr is a poet, storyteller and founder/director of The Stafford Challenge, an international poetry project encouraging over a thousand participants to write a poem every day for a year, inspired by the legendary William Stafford. His writings have appeared in a number of publications and anthologies and his debu , ... - 11
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- 16In Memory Reading Series7:00 pm - 9:00 pmLive featured poet series, with open mic. This month the feature is celebrated Oregon poet Emmett Wheatfall Hawthorne Hideaway (Red Room performance space) 2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd. , ...
- 17Salem Poetry Project Featuring Poems Banned in Florida7:00 am - 9:00 pm
In April 2024 Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that stated Florida residents without children in a school district “may not object to more than one material per month.” Comforting after according to PEN America, Florida school districts have banned over 1,400 books since July 2021, though there is no way to know exa , ... - 18
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- 27Poetry in the Round12:30 pm - 2:00 pmA casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...Humble Poets’ Open Mic4:00 pm - 6:00 pmThe Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...
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