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

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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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Isadora: A Tragedy in Three Acts by Dale Champlin, Reviewed by Judith H. Montgomery

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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

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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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Splitting Open the World by Carolyn Martin, reviewed by Carol Barrett

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Reviewed by Carol Barrett Splitting Open the World by Carolyn Martin The Poetry Box, 2025, 95 pages, $18.00 ISBN 978-1-956285-93-2 Available with free S/H at [email protected]   Carolyn Martin’s sixth book of poems claims its title from a famous quotation by Muriel Rukeyser: “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?

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Willa Schneberg will conduct the workshop “Developing Empathy Through Writing the Persona Poem”

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Willa Schneberg will conduct the workshop “Developing Empathy Through Writing the Persona Poem” Saturday, April 19 2PM- 4PM Newport Public Library 35 NW Nye St, Newport Oregon Free & Open to All How can we develop empathy toward others? Join Willamette Willamette Writers Coast Chapter on April 19 at the Newport Public Library from 2-4

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The Last Hippy Poet of the Woodstock Generation by C. Steven Blue, Reviewed by Shirley Marc

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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

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OPA Board Meeting Minutes – February 2024

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February 12, 2024 Present Bob Sterry, president Aaron Erhardt, treasurer Sherri Levine Kate Ristau, Vice President Juan Cervantes David Goodrum Sharon Johnson Debra Elisa Wöhrmann, secretary Resigned: Corine Hughes  Sherri moved to accept, and they were accepted.  Aaron moved to appoint her to the board; David seconded this—and it was anonymous. OPA has a new

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OPA Board Meeting Minutes – January 2024

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January 8, 2024 Present Bob Sterry, president Aaron Erhardt, treasurer Sherri Levine Kate Ristau, Vice President Juan Cervantes David Goodrum Corine Hughes  Sharon Johnson Debra Elisa Wöhrmann, secretary A Reading by David Goodrum: “Winter’s Vangaurds” Recently published in The Banyon Review Sherri motioned to accept the minutes, Kate seconded, and this was passed unanimously. Sharon

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