The postmark deadline for OPA’s Fall 2013 Poetry Contest is August 31. Six contest categories. Enter one category, or all of them: Poet’s Choice Free Verse Traditional Verse Dueling Judges Members Only New Poets There are cash prizes and OPA members pay only $5 to enter up to six poems, one poem per category. Even […]
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Going to the hospital might not be so bad after all. Kaiser’s new Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro features poetry by local poets, combined with photos by a local artist. Poems were selected by Steve Williams and Constance Hall, who have also published a stunningly beautiful chapbook of the poems selected, plus others. The poem-photo
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Eugene-Springfield Chapter Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Tuesday October 23, 2012, Springfield Public Library, 225 5th Street (inside City Hall), Springfield, OR 97477. Poets Bette Lynch Husted (Pendleton), Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua (Eugene) and Jana Zvibleman (Corvallis) will be reading at our bi-annual Springfield Reading series. This event, now in its ninth
July 21, 2013, 10:08 am Moody, Nancy Carol Nancy Carol Moody has been interviewed by Pank: http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/interviews/ask-the-author-nancy-carol-moody-2/
July 21, 2013, 10:08 am Munson, Sharon Lask Sharon Lask Munson is a finalist in the Blue Light Press 2011 Full-Length Poetry Book Contest. Her full-length book of poems will go into production in September. Her poems have also been recently accepted by Punkin House Digest.
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July 21, 2013, 10:04 am LeHew, Laura Laura LeHew had an interview with the Oregon Arts Alliance, http://oregoncrafted.blogspot.com/and they republished her poem, “The Other Laura.” Her poem “The New Math” was published by Pank, read her interview with Pank http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/2011/05/. She’s had poems accepted/published in: Amaterasu published “Our People” in their anthology-all the anthology profits ($20) to aid the
July 21, 2013, 10:03 am Harrison, Ruth F Ruth F. Harrison has two neat bits of news: a half-dozen of her poems are to be included in the fourth edition of Lewis Turco’s The Book of Forms, coming out in October (2012). And she will have a poem included in an anthology of poems for
Review by John Sibley Williams Understory: Poems By Paulann Petersen Lost Horse Press 2013, 196 pp., $21.95 Paulann Petersen’s web site / Powell’s Books Before even opening Paulann Petersen’s latest collection, Understory, I was greeted with a haunting question: what is an “understory”? My mind raced with potential metaphors, each speaking directly to the core of all Petersen’s
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Review by Kelly Eastlund Motionless from the Iron Bridge: A Northwest Anthology of Bridge Poems Edited by John Sibley Williams Bare bone books 2013, 38 pp., $7.50 Ordering information The first thing that struck me about this anthology, after Jonette Swanson’s haunting iron bridge image on the cover, was the word “motionless” in the title.
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. Finishing Line Press. $14 Comment by Erik Muller One virtue of chapbooks is their clarity of intent that can be sustained for a reading straight through. It is a rare larger volume that allows this. Sara Burant’s Verge assuredly develops its title as theme and variations. The verge is principally a border, an edge, the brink of
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