The editors of VoiceCatcher: a journal of women’s voices & visions are pleased to announce the publication of the Winter 2015 issue. Twenty poets, five prose writers, five young voices and four artists fill the content-rich, visually-unique pages with new work. VoiceCatcher, Winter 2015: http://voicecatcherjournal.org/2015WinterIssue/_intro-page.html
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The Oregon Poetry Association Spring 2015 poetry contest is open for entries. The deadline is March 1, 2015. Categories: Poet’s Choice, Members Only, Dueling Judges, Traditional Form (Ghazal), New Poets, Themed: Endings, Experimental Poetry. Entries can be made online or by mail. Complete information, including categories and judges, awards, entry fees, and rules has been posted on the OPA Adult Contest page.
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Review by Ruthy Kanagy Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out Edited by Leah Stenson and Asao Sarukawa Aroldi Inkwater Press (Portland, Oregon) ISBN: 9781629010656 2014, 192pp., $14.95 3.11.11 is a date forever imprinted on the memories of Japanese and other persons who were in Japan on that fateful day. A massive tsunami launched
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The 2015 annual NFSPS College/University Level Poetry Competition is the first to allow students to submit their manuscripts either in electronic form through Submittable.com or on paper. The contest opens on January 1, 2015 when the Submittable system will become available online and those sending hard copy manuscripts can mail their packages (postmarked no earlier
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December 28, 2014, 12:33 pm Gail Denham Nov/Dec news: 3rd prize, Florida cont.; 1st prize, Illinois cont.; 2nd prize Mississippi cont. (& H.M.s); Thin Air prize; poem in Mocassin; poem in two Okla. on-line newsletters; Festival using a poem; Highland Park (IL) prize on-line; 3rd prize, Massachusetts cont.
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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Fall 2014 OPA Poetry Contest Winners and Honorable Mentions, along with the judges’ comments, have been posted to the Fall 2014 Contest Winners page.
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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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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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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
