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

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

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

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

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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Contradictions from an Uncertain Silence by Emmett Wheatfall, Reviewed by Carol Barrett

Reviewed by Carol Barrett Contradictions from an Uncertain Silence by Emmett Wheatfall Fernwood Press, 2025, 40 pages, $28.00 hardbound ISBN 9781594981524 Available at fernwoodpress.com From the incisive opening poem, “When the Time Comes for You to Speak,” to the concluding “America’s End,” Emmett Wheatfall urges us to resist and refuse the battlements of racism and

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NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN FOR OPA’S PATRICIA RUTH BANTA AWARD

Do 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, which honors an individual or group that has made a significant contribution to Oregon poetry and to OPA’s mission.  Download the nomination form below: print,

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CONCURSO DE POESÍA EN ESPAÑOL 2025 / SPANISH POETRY CONTEST

CONCURSO 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 Concurso de Poesía en Español, cuyas bases son las siguientes: Fecha límite para participar: hasta el 30 de junio de 2025. Los poemas deben entregarse

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THESE HOLLOWED BONES by Amelia Díaz Ettinger, Reviewed by Brenna Crotty

Reviewed by Brenna Crotty Previously published in Calyx, March 30, 2025 THESE HOLLOWED BONES by Amelia Díaz Ettinger Sea Crow Press 2024, 107 pages, $18.00 ISBN 9781961864009 Available at www.seacrowpress.com I am not a bird person. Reading through each of the nearly fifty poems named after a different bird in These Hollowed Bones, Amelia Díaz Ettinger’s fourth

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REVOKE by Joy Manesiotis, Reviewed by Carol Barrett

Reviewed by Carol Barrett REVOKE by Joy Manesiotis Airlie Press, 2023, 67 pages, $18.00 ISBN 978-1-950404-12-4 Available at www.airliepress.org Growing up, I often heard the phrase “betwixt and between.” It seems an apt way to describe the themes of Manesiotis’ poems in REVOKE. The subjects of this work include the poet’s contending with infertility and

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