OPA Spring Poetry Contest deadline is March 1, 2014. The March 1st deadline — postmark or electronic submission — for the OPA Spring 2014 Poetry Contest is only a week away. There are cash prizes and winners are invited to read their winning poem at the upcoming OPA Conference. You don’t have to live in Oregon […]
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The 6th annual Northwest Poets’ Concord will be held May 2 – 4, 2014, at the Hallmark Inn in Newport, Oregon. This year’s keynote speaker is Charles Goodrich, Director of the Spring Creek Project and author of Insects of South Corvallis, Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden, and A Scripture of Crows. There will be a stimulating and exciting program
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Review by Kelly Eastlund Still Life with Judas and Lightning by Dawn Diez Willis Airlie Press ISBN 978-0-9821066-8-6 2013, 71 pp, $15 http://airliepress.org/still-life When the title of a poetry book feels like a poem in itself, you know you are in for an enriching read. Still Life with Judas and Lightning, Dawn Diez Willis’s first
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Nominations for Oregon Poet Laureate due February 28, 2014 Paulann Petersen, has served as Oregon’s Poet Laureate since 2010 and completes her second term in April 2014. “The Oregon Poet Laureate fosters the art of poetry, encourages literacy and learning, addresses central issues relating to humanities and heritage, and reflects on public life in Oregon. The poet
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The Eugene/Springfield Unit of OPA presents their Spring Poetry Reading on Tuesday April 1, 2013, 7:00 p.m., at the Springfield Public Library, 225 Fifth Street, 97477. The readers will be: Daniel Anderson, Anita Sullivan, and Stephanie Lenox.
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Submissions are now open for the adult poetry contest of spring 2014, under the able chairmanship of board member A. Molotkov. For the first time, OPA is offering an online submission option to our poetry contest. This will save our contest chairs and judges a great deal of work, and reduce the risk of entries
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Review by A. Molotkov Iron String by Annie Lighthart, Airlie Press ISBN 978-0-9821066-7-9 2013, 77pp, $15 http://airliepress.org/iron-string Now I understand that there are two melodies playing, one below the other, one easier to hear, the other lower, steady, perhaps more faithful for being less heard yet always present. Annie Lighthart’s exceptional collection contains some
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December 7, 2013, 11:13 am Barton, Rachel Rachel Barton’s poem, “This is not a Drill” will be published in the next issue of the Oregon English Journal. She has also been approved to teach a poetry workshop at LBCC, Benton Center, beginning Jan. 9. It will run Thursday afternoons, 1:-2:50, and will finish on March
LAUNCH OF THE NEW OPA PAGE: MEMBER WEBSITES Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit their website information for the launch of the new OPA Member Websites page! I just clicked through to all the websites and I can tell you there is a lot of information and a lot to think about.
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Review by Larina Warnock Willingly Would I Burn by Laura LeHew MoonPath Press ISBN 978-1-936657-08-7 2013, 57 pp., $10 http://www.lauralehew.com/ On a surface level, mathematics and poetry couldn’t be more different. Mathematics comes to conclusions using logical reasoning; poetry uses emotional reasoning. Mathematics adheres strictly to universal rules; poetry subverts rules believed to be universal.
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