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OPA Units – News

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

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Laura LeHew

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

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‘Understory: Poems’ by Paulann Petersen, reviewed by John Sibley Williams

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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‘Motionless from the Iron Bridge: A Northwest Anthology of Bridge Poems’

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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‘Verge’ by Sara Burant, Comment by Erik Muller

. 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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