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Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2018 Poetry Contest

Deadline: September 1, 2018 Submissions open: July 1, 2018– Submissions Open Now! Limit: one poem per category. Spaces between stanzas do not count as lines. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be published on the OPA website and in OPA’s annual anthology, Verseweavers   Categories Limit: one entry per category.   1) Poet’s Choice: Limit

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2018 Spring Contest Winner: 1st Place, Theme–Borders and Boundaries

Cross-Country Bus by Charlotte Abernathy   Miles beyond midnight, beyond another state line, past service station signs glaring from high pylons, beyond remnants of a weary town, one last overhead reading light clicks off. In the dark, drowsy voices merge with the droning motor, the roaring tires. Cold window glass rumbles hard against my forehead

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2018 Spring Contest Winner: 2nd Place, Theme–Borders and Boundaries

Muggins Discovers His New Boundaries by Dave Harvey   Full of years when we moved here, he took to the back yard like an old soldier, patrolled his post, lolled in the summer sun (working on his kitty-tan).   Then a foreign cat came in, and Muggins, deep-dyed chauvinist about foreign cats, launched a silent

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2018 Spring Contest Winner: 3rd Place, Theme–Borders and Boundaries

Something There Is by Kim Hamilton   They plead latitude document 13 article A hand the map of scars back   folded in your lap at crossing the green skin   was a prayer you made with your feet and stayed there.       Judge’s comments I was drawn to the category, Borders and

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