Tradition We serve Thanksgiving dinner on the back of our father’s polished guitar, there is a breadboat and a small aperture full of violets. This we are expected to repeat each year. One day I take the guitar from behind the reredos. I carve dense mayhem into the spruce. I offer the guitar to a […]
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Monarchs As their wings dry out of the chrysalises, the party’s hostess uncurls their long tongues with a thin stick, introduces them to molasses under gauze. That’s how they learn with butterfly intelligence to locate substitute narcissus. Now, one sips from the edge of the punch bowl. Another lights on Bridey’s hair, then Terence’s shoulder.
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Oregon Poetry Association/ Silverton Poetry Association OPA Spring 2013 Conference & Annual Meeting April 12-14 – Silverton, Oregon A Rendezvous with Renewal at the Spring 2013 Conference April is truly the cruelest month. Not only because it breeds lilacs out of the dead land (sorry, T.S.), but also because National Poetry Month lasts a mere 30
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Oregon Poetry Association Spring 2013 Contest Winners OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered for sharing their work. Poet’s Choice — M. E. Hope, Judge 1st Place: “A Week’s Pay Lost at the Lizard Fight” by Armin Tolentino, Portland 2nd Place: “A Homeless Lady Speaks” by Hannah
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2012 FALL CONTEST WINNERS OPA congratulates all the poets below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered our most recent contest for sharing their work. Poet’s Choice – Peter Sears First Place: “Untitled” by Brad Canfield Second Place: “Shower” by Liz Robinson Third Place: “Nail” by Steve Jones Fourth Place: “New Neighbors” by Linda
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OPA Fall 2012 Conference: A Harvest of Poetry Friday, October 5 – Sunday, October 7 in Downtown Medford Conference Burble – Tiel Aisha Ansari New at this conference, registrants were offered the opportunity to have individual poetry consultations with local luminaries Vince and Patty Wixon, Amy Miller, and Gary Lark. Consultees uniformly found the sessions useful and
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