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Dream: At the Beach by Robin Rosen Chang [gview file=”https://oregonpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rosen_Chang-Dream-at-the-Beach.pdf”] Robin Rosen Chang’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Zone 3, Paterson Literary Review, Yemassee Journal, Vinyl Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and other journals. She has an MFA in Poetry from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. An […]

Colors of My Mother by Janice Hoffman My mother was born orange and grew in the 1930s to bright greens, the ones like the optimistic and piercing wings of parrots. Her teens were her ragtime of red, flaming reds like the color of her lips in that picture where she’s in a taffeta gown in

Corpse Walker by David Allen Sullivan A man was there, walking a few paces ahead of the corpse carrying a basket. Every few minutes he would reach into the basket, grab some fake paper money, and toss it high in the air. You know the ritual, don’t you? It’s called “buying your way into the

Honorable mentions: 1st Honorable Mention: “In Memory of Peter Sears” by Doug Stone, Albany, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “Walk on Big Stump Beach” by Kari Wergeland, Yachats, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “Adiabatic Flame” by Shari Crane, Portland, OR Judge’s comments It’s been a tremendous pleasure and privilege spending time with the poems in this category—thank

Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2018 Contest Winners   OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered for sharing their work.   www.wordpress-687676-2268923.cloudwaysapps.com     Poet’s Choice — Jennifer Richter, Judge 1st Place: “Dream: At the Beach” by Robin Rosen Chang, Westfield, NJ 2nd Place: “Colors of My Mother”