OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES December 11, 2016 Tiel, Richard, Lisa, Joy, Lynn, Shirley and Dorothy on line Minutes: How detailed to make OPA minutes? A suggestion was made to keep them somewhat detailed. Members were concerned about attaching names to discussion. Motions should be general. Any member can always request their name […]
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For the students and teachers in your life: Cascadia, OPA’s K-12 student poetry contest, closes December 31st (postmark deadline). Get those poems to the Post Office! Cascadia Poetry Contest c/o Lisa Baldwin 560A NE F Street, #643 Grants Pass, OR 97526 Detailed guidelines under CONTESTS > Student Contest
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[gview file=”https://oregonpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Verseweavers-2015-front-cover-with-Rogue-River.pdf”] The 2015 volume of Verseweavers should be available in time for the holidays. Watch your mail for it. Extra copies can be ordered under PUBLICATIONS > Verseweavers. Read the full item to preview the cover, a beautiful painting by OPA member Charlotte Abernathy.
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OPA BOARD MEETING MINUTES November 13, 2016 CONFERENCE EVALUATIONS: The conference format and setting were well received. FINANCIAL STATEMENT: Conference attendance, receipts and expenses increased. The cost of hotel coffee was high. AV costs were unusually high because of the computer audio portion, which was priced separately and was used by just one workshop. About
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Setting the Fires by Darlene Pagán Airlie Press, 2015, $15.00 Reviewed by Carolyn Martin When Randall Jarrell defined a poet as someone “who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times,” he could have been describing Darlene Pagán. In Setting the Fires, lightning strikes this
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If you have a poetry manuscript about ready to go, consider submitting it to The National Federation of State Poetry Societies 2016 STEVENS POETRY MANUSCRIPT COMPETITION. Submit 48-70 pages of poetry. First prize is $1,000 + publication + 50 copies. The winner will be invited to read at the June 2017 National Federation convention in
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NFSPS seeks presenters for national database! If you would like to demonstrate the strength of Oregon’s poetry to audiences in other states, please download the form below and send to the address included. [gview file=”https://oregonpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NFSPS-speaker-database.pdf”] This form is permanently located under RESOURCES > NFSPS and Strophes.
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She simply blurted out her response and with few edits sent it off. The author requested permission to print it in her blog. It can be read here: http://www.drewmyron.com/off-the-page/2016/10/20/thankful-thursday-thinking-of-you.html
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Nice and Loud by Lois Rosen Tebot Bach, 2015, $16.00 Reviewed by Susan Clayton Goldner Nice and Loud, a collection of beautifully crafted poetry by Lois Rosen, is authentic and yet tender. It is intimate, unselfconscious and introspective. Her story takes the reader into the world of a young Jewish girl growing up in a cramped,
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2017 Cascadia Student Poetry Contest Rules Poems accepted between October 15, 2016 and December 31, 2016 (postmark deadline) Division I: Kindergarten—Grade 2 Division II: Grade 3—Grade 5 Division III: Grade 6—Grade 8 Division IV: Grade 9—Grade 12 Prizes: 10 unranked prizes in each Division, $10.00 each Each winner will receive a certificate and a copy of Cascadia: The Oregon Student
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