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OPA Spring 2015 Poetry Contest — Announcement

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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Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out, reviewed by Ruthy Kanagy

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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NFSPS College/University Level Poetry Competition–Entries Open January 1, 2015

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

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

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

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

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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