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Anuk-Ité: Double-Face Woman by Dorothy Black Crow, reviewed by Carter McKenzie

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Review by Carter McKenzie  Anuk-Ité: Double-Face Woman, Poems  By Dorothy Black Crow Turnstone Publishing (Corvallis, Oregon) ISBN: 9781479338580 2012, 39 pp., $9.90 (on Amazon) dorothyblackcrow.com The poems in Anuk-Ité: Double-Face Woman by Dorothy Black Crow demonstrate the skill and wisdom of balance; through deft understatement they achieve the resonance of cumulative effect: they are weavings […]

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Oregon Poetry Association – Fall 2014 Contest Winners

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Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2014 Contest Winners  OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered for sharing their work. Poet’s Choice. Judge: Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua 1st place: “Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Sandra Rokoff-Lizut, Corvallis 2nd place: “Over Breakfast and the News I Wonder” by Hannah Thomassen,

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High-Voltage Lines by Tiel Aisha Ansari, reviewed by Lois Rosen

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Review by Lois Rosen High-Voltage Lines by Tiel Aisha Ansari Barefoot Muse Press 2012 ISBN-13:978-615663760 Paperback: 40 pages Tiel Aisha Ansari’s poetry collection, High-Voltage Lines, lives up to its name. Like the conduits delivering strong electrical charges, sparking the air around them, her artful lines convey potent messages. Tiel treats the reader to a dazzling

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Don Colburn

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October 18, 2014, 6:12 pm Colburn, Don My chapbook of poems, “Tomorrow Too: The Brenda Monologues,” will be performed on stage this month at the Majestic Theatre in Corvallis (Oct. 26) and the Wildish Theatre in Springfield (Oct. 24-25). Three actors directed by Leigh Matthews Bock will present the monologues, which tell the true story

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Just This, Tanka by Margaret Chula, reviewed by Penelope Schott

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Review by Penelope Scambly Schott Just This, Tanka by Margaret Chula, Mountains and Rivers Press, 2013 92 pages, $16.00 Imagine there is someone standing in front of you with a lifted hand and upstretched fingers. Two fingers are presenting a delicate object in order for you to see it clearly. Listen as the person whispers to

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OPA Fall 2014 Conference: Schedule & Registration

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Oregon Poetry Association Fall Conference 2014 Stafford (and More) by the Sea EARLY REGISTRATION POSTMARK DEADLINE September 27th Registrations to: Tiel Aisha Ansari 1724 NE Prescott Portland OR 97211 [email protected] Dates: October 3rd (Friday evening) through 5th (Sunday morning) Event Venue:  Bandon Community Center, “The Barn” 1200 11th Street SW, Bandon OR 97411 Lodging: Table

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Snow White, When No One Was Looking by Donna Prinzmetal, reviewed by Carolyn Martin

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Review by Carolyn Martin Snow White, When No One Was Looking by Donna Prinzmetal CW Books, Cincinnati, OH, 2014 ISBN: 978-1625490841 2014, 84 pages, $16.20 Reading Donna Prinzmetal’s collection of persona poems, Snow White, When No One Was Looking (Cincinnati, OH: CW Books, 2014) is like falling down a rabbit hole and landing in the midst

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