The Oregon Poetry Association Annual Conference is October 4-5, 2024 at the Best Western Agate Beach Inn in Newport, Oregon and online. Registration The cost is $225 for non-members, $175 for members, $99 for online attendees, and $60 for students. Special Reading by the Oregon Poet Laureate OPA welcomes the recently appointed Oregon Poet Laureate, […]
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Reviewed by Shirley Marc The Last Hippy Poet of the Woodstock Generation, a psychedelic memoir and narrative verse by C. Steven Blue Sunset West Publishing Group, 2023, 642 pages, $24.99 ISBN 978-0997997507 Available at: amazon.com Facebook author page: www.facebook.com/cstevenbluepoet Amazon author page: amazon.com/author/cstevenblue C. Steven Blue’s The Last Hippy Poet of the Woodstock Generation is
The Oregon Poetry Association is proud to announce our annual conference, in-person on October 4-5, 2024 at the Agate Beach Inn in Newport, Oregon. Join us to write Lines in the Sand – registration is open now! We’ll connect over workshops, listen to keynotes, and gather together in community. Online participation is also available. To
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Reviewed by Melody Wilson My Kindred by Paulann Petersen Salmon Poetry, 2023 Available: Powell’s Books, Broadway Books, Annie Bloom’s Books, Amazon Paulann Petersen’s My Kindred might seem to be about family, but it’s much more. The book invites us into a much broader exploration. The first poem, “Inhabited,” teaches us how to read the book
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Dear Oregon Poets, A Confession I cannot imagine a world without poets and poetry, and I am sure you all feel the same. Some literary gurus claim that poetry preceded prose, and one can easily see how that could be. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa was written during the 25th century BCE. I
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