Alan Contreras Interview
Member Alan Contreras was featured on the OSU Press blog in January. http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/blog/process-of-publishing-interview-with-alan-contreras
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Valerie Egan in Dragon Poet Review
Valerie Egan’s poem “I split the sun like an orange” will appear in the Winter / Spring 2018 Issue of Dragon Poet Review, with an anticipated release of mid-February 2018.
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Mrs. Schrödinger’s Breast: Poems by Quinton Hallett, reviewed by Alan Contreras
Uttered Chaos, 2015, 74 pages, $10 ISBN 978-0988936645 Available via Amazon Mrs. Schrödinger’s Breast is one of the most complex and carefully layered collections of poetry that most of us will ever read. I wondered, when I saw the title, whether this was a feminist restatement of Woody Allen being chased over
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Bruce Parker in Common Ground Review
Bruce Parker’s poem “Survival” will appear in the Summer/Fall issue of Common Ground Review from Western New England University.
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Diane Corson and Dale Champlin in Squid
Diane Corson and Dale Champlin both have poems coming out in Squid, published by the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita.
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Free Range Poetry
OPA Membership Co-chair Diane Corson and OPA member John Miller host Free Range Poetry February 5, 5:45 PM – 7:30 PM. Free Range Poetry is a monthly, first-Monday event held at the NW Multnomah County Library, 2300 NW Thurman St. in Portland. Free Range Poetry is committed to provide poetry readings that inspire and yet
An Interview with Carl Adamshick, Publisher of Tavern Books
“A man said no person is educated who knows/only one language, for he cannot distinguish/between his thought and the English version,” Jack Gilbert wrote in “Foraging for Wood on the Mountain.” But it is nearly inescapable for Americans to be monolingual, as our country is isolated by two oceans from most other languages. If we
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OPA 2018 Conference: Save the Date!
OPA’s 2018 conference returns to the Valley River Inn at Eugene, September 29th and 30th. Watch for a Call for Proposals, and for early bird registration deadlines, as summer unfolds.
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Submitting Your Work, by Bruce Parker
If you write poetry to put in a drawer and never show it to anyone, this article is not for you. But if you craft words, sound, rhythm, image, symbol, metaphor, into works of art you want to send into the world, to contribute a grain to the great, ever-growing heap of poetry in English,
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NFSPS Spoken/Written Word Contest– And So Many Others
Check out the new contest from NFSPS! [gview file=”https://oregonpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-bbp-poster.pdf”] Also check out the rest of their contest lineup.
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