May 21, 2017, Minutes Oregon Poetry Association Board Meeting On the phone: Tiel, Lynn, Shirley, Dick, Lisa (Dorothy, Susan, Joy unavailable) Bank of America: needs minutes signed by the secretary stating who will be on the account. Tiel still has access. This is going on the retreat agenda. Updates Student contest: Cascadia and Manningham contest […]
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Poet’s Choice Screener, Carolyne Wright ; Final Judge, Ellen Bass First place winner: “Calling the Wolves of Chernobyl” — Charlotte Abernathy – Ashland, Oregon Judge’s Comment: This is an ambitious poem. The poet uses scale especially well, showing us the great devastation of Chernobyl, the particular suffering of the wolves, and her/himself in a little
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“Wind” published in Hawaii Pacific Review. Online at https://hawaiipacificreview.org.
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Rachel Barton and Jade McCutcheon launched the site for their new online journal for poetry and art this Saturday, May 6th, with a full house at Old World Deli in Corvallis who assembled to hear poems from Peter Sears, Tammy Robacker, Merridawn Duckler, Doug Stone, Jade R. McCutcheon, and Rachel Barton. Book sales, donations, and
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Once again, Oregon’s middle and high school students captured awards in the national Manningham Student Poetry Contest, sponsored by NFSPS. Junior Division: grades 6-8 Neve Ann McGuire of Create Solutions Tutoring, Ashland: Second Place Senior Division: grades 9-12 Gabrielle Cohn of Wilson High School, Portland: Honorable Mention Kaitee Steiert of St. Mary’s Academy, Portland:
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Everything is Shining By Jan David Madsen Lulu, 2016, 66 pages, $15 ISBN 978-1329812314 Available at https://www.lulu.com/ Author website: https://zestymumbles.com/ Reviewed by Emily Pittman Newberry When Carolyn Martin sent out a call for poets to write reviews of books, I scanned the list of books on the OPA website and was drawn to Everything is
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OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION APRIL 15, 2017 MINUTES (board members on conference phone call: Tiel, Lisa, Joy, Lynn, Shirley, Dick) FINANCIAL STATUS: The current balance in Bank of America account of $3288.08 includes most memberships and contest fees. Funds from our recent benefactor have not yet been received. Dick says OPA risks being overdrawn by
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Please Join Our 2017 Conference as a Presenter! [gview file=”https://oregonpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/OPA-call-for-proposals.pdf”] OPA will hold its annual conference at the University Place Hotel owned by Portland State University on the weekend of October 13-15. Emmett Wheatfall headlines as keynote speaker. Friday night festivities include a keynote talk and readings by Emmett and time for an open mic. Saturday includes workshops, lunch,
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OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING….Sunday, March 19, 2017 (phone conference participants: Dorothy, Tiel, Joy, Susan, Dick, Lisa, Shirley, Lynn.) The board enjoyed sharing poems by email when our meeting agenda came out. Student Contest: OPA did not receive approval for use of the state capitol building for the Cascadia Student Contest award ceremony.
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Here From Somewhere Else by Judith Arcana Left Fork Press, 2015, 26 pages, $10 ISBN 978-0692589526 Available at https://leftfork.org/books/ Reviewed by Tricia Knoll Judith Arcana’s chapbook Here From Somewhere Else was a perfect choice for the Turtle Island Quarterly’s 2015 Editor’s Prize. The press focuses on deepening connections to the natural world. The eighteen poems in the collection
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