OPA members who attended last fall’s conference in Portland will have fond memories of Emmett Wheatfall and his electrifying presentation: “Can Poets Change the World?” Don’t miss this chance to see Emmett again! A reading by Emmett Wheatfall 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 14, 2018 Ledding Library Pond House, 2215 SE Harrison St. The Milwaukie Poetry
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Good news, poetry lovers of the Northwest! Tsunami Books met their fundraising goal. They raised over $3000 to be able to stay in the location we all know and love. Next time you’re in Eugene, stop by and congratulate them, and buy a book of poetry. (Heck, buy two.)
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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’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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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’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 both have poems coming out in Squid, published by the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita.
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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
“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’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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