Knowledge of Good and Evil by Penelope Scambly Schott I am a way better biter than Eve or Adam. I go at apples entirely, core and seeds, leaving nothing but stem. I have built my house out of stems, and between them, a window. All these ageing years l have stared out. Eve swallowed
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Fishing Indian Creek by Marri Champié Across vast prairie a train slants away; I hear it whistle at Indian Creek Bridge. I cannot sleep for fish dreams, glittering smolt like tears on a stringer. You stepped across pools sailed with golden leaves each rock a metronome for years
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Persephone by Carol Clark Williams Foolish child, despite her mother’s wild-eyed searching and entreating, she was enticed into eating what she should not while the people above her starved and prayed, and Demeter moved earth and Sun to bring her daughter home. Like Eve, who fed on fruit with cyanide seeds, she returned,
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Honorable mentions: 1st Honorable Mention: “Monday after Rain” by Michael Hanner, Eugene, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “Fourth Wave” by Linda Ferguson, Portland, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “Spinning Song” by Toni Hanner, Eugene, OR Judge’s comments The poets of Oregon have so much to say to the world. They see a frayed time and write
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OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING by SKYPE 4/24/2018 participants: Lisa, Shirley, Lynn, Stella, Joy, Charles, Erik, Bruce and Diane President’s Report: The last two issues of Verseweavers are ready for distribution. Eleanor edited the 2016 issue and Dale edited the 2017. We have the opportunity to mail both issues together. Distribution goes to OPA
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OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION board meeting Thursday March 15, 2018 (SKYPE attendees: Lisa, Shirley, Joy, Lynn, Diane, Bruce, Erik, Charles) President’s Report: OPA’s Gmail account offers a membership box, conference box and the regular general business box. An Oregon Poet Outlook Account still exists and will be the contact spot for the OPA President. Katie
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2 POETRY WORKSHOPS!! Saturday, May 12th Morning session “ANOTHER WAY IN” with Miles Frode 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Medford Public Library /Adams Room Pre-Registration required: Click here Frode will invite participants to explore deeper connections and meaning in their poetry through energetic “word work”. He will use auditory, visual and tactile examples—as
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OPA member John Miller has lived in Portland Oregon with his wife, Nicole Denham, since March of 2012. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and he has a degree in English from Amherst College (Amherst, MA). Upon arrival in Portland, he initially wrote poetry alone, but soon felt the need for community
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Poet’s Choice — Armin Tolentino, Judge 1st Place: “Knowledge of Good and Evil” by Penelope Scambly Schott, Portland, OR 2nd Place: “Fishing Indian Creek” by Marri Champié, Kuna, ID 3rd Place: “Persephone” by Carol Clark Williams, York, PA 1st Honorable Mention: “Monday after Rain” by Michael Hanner, Eugene, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “Fourth Wave” by
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Before Dreaming by Arn Strasser Budding Branch Books, an imprint of Asher & Merriman Publishers ISBN# 978-0-9841874-1-6 2015, 89 pp., $19.95 www.buddingbranchbooks.com Before Dreaming almost is correct; Between Dreaming would be accurate. Arn Strasser’s collection investigates the interaction between the dream state and wakefulness. He approaches the enigma of the dream world with
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