Oregon Poetry Association Board Minutes August 15, 2018, via SKYPE (members participating: Lisa, Lynn, Diane, Charles, Erik, Bruce, Stella, Shirley) President’s Report: *Tiel & Amy(Katy?) are experiencing list-serve problems with contest. Tiel, Katy, and Dale meeting in Portland August 25; Tiel, Shirley, and Charles meeting in Eugene August 26. Troubleshooting, training, involved. *Verseweavers has been […]
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The student poetry contest winners are up. Read their names here. Award ceremony will be June 20th, Charles Jordan Community Center, 9009 N. Foss Avenue in Portland.
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Watch for a new category on the OPA page, starting in just a few days: Winning poems from the 2014 OPA contests will be featured throughout the month, with author commentary. Come and check out some fine writing by members. Also, between watching the spring flowers bloom and working on your poem-a-day for April, watch
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The Oregon Poetry Collection is scheduled to move to the University of Oregon library December 17th. This represents the culmination of a year and more of hard work on the part of OPA members, Oregon State Library staff, and University of Oregon staff. We had hoped to make the move by the end of this
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Stafford Centennial Art Exhibit in Salem Nov. 5-22 The poetry of Oregon’s beloved former Poet Laureate, William Stafford (1914-1993), has not only influenced many other poets in the Northwest and far beyond, but it has also inspired numerous visual artists. As part of the continuing celebration of Stafford’s centennial year, an exhibit of works of
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For the teachers and students in your life: Spread the word! The seventeenth annual OPA Student Poetry Contest will open for submissions, November 1st, 2014 – February 10th, 2015. Steve Jones and Tiel Ansari repeat as co-chairs. This year we will have 10 unranked winners, instead of 1st – 3rd plus Honorable Mentions. Details on
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Check out the schedule at OPA’s fall conference in Bandon: “Stafford (and More) by the Sea.” This time around, we’re doing things a bit differently. Instead of just two workshops, we’re offering a total of sixteen workshops, panels, and other presentations, spread over two days in beautiful Bandon. Stafford features prominently, of course (thanks to
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Review by Eleanor Berry Rending the Garment by Willa Schneberg Box Turtle Press ISBN 978-1-893654-14-3 2014, 103 pp., $16 The couple in the cover photograph compel our gaze. “Should I recognize them?” we may wonder, thinking they must be stars in a classic film of the 1940s. As we read, we discover that they made
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At the general membership meeting, April 12th, 2014 in Bend, several amendments to OPA’s constitution and bylaws were passed. You can read the revised text on the WHO WE ARE tab (scroll down to read the constitution). Amended articles are marked with an asterisk, and the unamended text is copied at the bottom of the
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Oregon student poets brought home five nationwide poetry awards this year, including First Place in the senior division and Second Place in the junior division. Please join us in congratulating these fine poets and their teachers! Winners
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