REMINDER: Membership renewals coming up!
OPA membership renewals are due March 1st. Watch for email, and for a postcard, to let you know the status of your membership.
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Board Minutes January 8th, 2017
OPA BOARD MEETING by conference call January 8, 2017 Participating: Tiel, Dorothy, Dick, Joy, Susan, Lisa, Lynn and Shirley FALL CONFERENCE: University Place Hotel is confirmed and so is Emmett Wheatfall as keynote speaker. Keynote to be delivered on Friday evening. Request for gluten free lunch option. VERSEWEAVERS: Booklet collected from printer 12/16.
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Spring 2017 Contest Info
OPA’s spring 2017 adult contest will open for submissions February 1st. Deadline is March 1st. Details under CONTESTS > Adult Contest. Questions to Joan Dobbie at CONTACTS > Adult Contest Chair.
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OPA 2016 Fall Contest Winners
OPA FALL 2016 CONTEST RESULTS Categories & Judges Poet’s Choice — Scot Siegel Members Only — Kelly Eastlund Traditional Form, Pantoum — Cecelia Hagen Themed Narrative — Laura LeHew Open Form — Austin Gray Oregon/Pacific Northwest — Rodger Moody New Poets — Quinton Hallett POET’S CHOICE JUDGE: SCOT SIEGEL WINNERS FIRST
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Happy Holidays to poets everywhere!
OPA members: It’s almost solstice! And I have several pieces of news to share. Fall contest results are in! Winners should hear shortly from contest chair Joan Dobbie, and the contest results will appear on the Contest Winners page after that. Reminder: The student contest postmark deadline is December 31st. Help the students and teachers
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Board Minutes December 11, 2016
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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REMINDER: Student Contest Deadline, December 31st
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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Verseweavers 2015: Coming Soon
[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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Board Minutes November 13, 2016
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, reviewed by Carolyn Martin
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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