Historian’s Report Jan. 18, 2022 HISTORIAN’S 2021 YEAR-END REPORT TO THE OPA BOARD* 2021 Year End Report (1): Revised Proposal for a Pilot Digital Historian Book & Comments: The Box Sent By: Priscilla Hunter 31xii21 Topics: 1.Revised Proposal for an Online Vault of Archived Historian Books. 2.Unresolved Issue: the Box. Section 1: PROPOSAL AND ACTION
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President’s Report Jan. 18, 2022 OPA website. As Rana will tell you later, we have successfully debuted the new website and received many compliments. I have been working on events and comments and other posts, and the site works, so bravo to our website crew. NFSPS presidents’ meeting. We met on Saturday, Jan. 15, and
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David J.S. Pickering’s collection, “Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland” (Airlie Press, 09/2021), was reviewed at Colorado State University’s Center for Literary Publishing.Read the review here: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/jesus-comes-to-me-as-judy-garland/
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Firefly Lanterns: Twelve Years in Kyoto In 1980, having spent two years traveling the globe, Margaret Chula and her husband, John Hall, agreed that they wanted to live and work in a different culture for an extended period. They chose Japan. Chula was drawn to the subtleties of Japanese poetry and to
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Oregon born and residing Richard Lee Granvold of Albany, Oregon has had two poetry books published in 2021, One in May and on Dec. 31. Of Time and Angels and Kill The Gun/Peace Is A World Wide War. These books are published by North Orchard Press.https://www.northorchardpress.com
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Read the winning poems from OPA’s theme category in the Fall 2021 contest.
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Callie Comes of Age is a haunting coming-of-age story that could fool you with its lyrical, almost casual language. Prepare your heart. It is full of a staggering anguish. When significant people die, it is a shattering experience for Callie, the young protagonist of Dale Champlin’s collection, who had already lost the three great loves of her life/and she’s just turned fifteen (“Callie Writes the Novel of Her Life”).
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In Stealing Flowers from the Neighbors, Portland poet Sherri Levine proves that she understands the Rumi epigram that introduces her book: You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. The result is a series of 53 poems that testify about difficult themes that include mental illness and the death of a parent.
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Board minutes: December 9th, 2021
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Fall 2021 Adult Contest Winners in the Poet’s Choice Category Judge – Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita, has seven full-length books of poetry, most recently One Small Sun, from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Calyx, and the Internet’s Poetry Daily. A Stegner
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