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Marriage: A History, has been released for advance sale from Finishing Line Press

My new chapbook, Marriage: A History, has been released for advance sale from Finishing Line Press. Widowed, divorced, widowed again, yet in age finding love once more, the author of Marriage: A History explores loss, grief, struggle, and love in lyrics that are by turns penetrating and tender. In poignant lyric poems Bruce Parker traces […]

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Announcing: Dan Liberthson’s latest poetry book, A Carnival of Cats

Announcing: Dan Liberthson’s latest poetry book, A Carnival of Cats Lovers of cats and poetry, prepare to be amazed and entertained! A Carnival of Cats features 63 poems and 12 watercolor paintings that explore the author’s love for and admiration of cats—their beauty, grace, and inscrutable character—and his bemused surmises as to what motivates their

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

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”

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

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

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

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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OPA Board Meeting Minutes – December 4, 2023

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