2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS TRADITIONAL EPISTOLARY, JUDGE DANIELLE CADENA DEULEN 1st Place, “Postcard from January” – Connie Soper (an epistolary pantoum!) 2nd Place:, “Dear Friend” – Dan Kaufman (wonderfully surprising language throughout!) 3rd Place, “To the Stylist Who Cut My Hair Last Winter” – Keli Osborn (how the wry humor throughout manages to vacillate
2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS THEME WILDLIFE (ANY INTERPRETATION), JUDGE KELLI RUSSELL AGODON 1st Place, “Broken Line” — Ann Farley 2nd Place, “Vinterstid1/Winter’s Time” – Auna Johannessen 3rd Place, “Extinction Dreams after Beachie Creek Fire” — Carey Taylor Honorable Mentions (in no particular order): “Snow Globe Valentine” – Shawn Aveningo-Sanders “Of the Wild Bees Living
Finishing Line Press, 2021, 42 pages $14.99 ISBN 978-1646627240 Available at Amazon Bruce Parker’s Ramadan in Summer transports us to physical and emotional places with spare authenticity. The first example is in the title poem, “Ramadan in Summer,” when the speaker watches a worker listlessly picking things up and putting them down on the fourth floor of an unfinished apartment
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Winners of the 2022 adult contests will read their prizewinning poems on Tuesday, March 14 (spring) and Thursday, March 16 (fall), both at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Their work will be published in the upcoming issue of Verseweavers, which has gone to press and will soon be mailed to all members and contest winners. The
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Want to get behind the scenes and have a say in upcoming OPA activities? Here’s your chance. Board member Jade Rosina McCutcheon is moving back to Australia and has reluctantly resigned. We need a new member for the executive board to help us plan and execute the many activities of one of the largest state
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reviewed by George Vennredbat books, 2022, 73 pages, $16ISBN 978-1-946970-08-4Available at www.redbatbooks.com, Ingram, Bookshop.org, Amazon.com, Powells.com To appreciate David Memmott’s achievement in Small Matters Mean the World (2022), readers might start with the front cover. Memmott’s colorful digital collage suggests a kaleidoscope preparing the reader to celebrate and explore the magic of natural, organic, and
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The Clackamas County Arts Alliance Literary Arts Committee invites Clackamas County writers to submit their work to their 2023 writing contest. Poems must fit the theme “Clackamas County: Its Life, Its History, Its Future.” Entries will be accepted from Jan. 3 to April 3, 2023. For complete guidelines, click here.
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OPA has had a tough four months since our new board was named at the conference in October. Three of our board members have quit. Historian Priscilla Hunter has moved to Texas, webmaster/events coordinator Jade Rosina McCutcheon is moving back to Australia, and treasurer Melissa Eaton had to leave for person reasons. In addition, the
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OPA 2023 ADULT SPRING POETRY CONTEST Categories, Guidelines, Judges Begins: February 1, 2023 Ends: March 1, 2023 Winners will be announced mid-to-late April, 2023 CATEGORIES Please remember that if you are not a current member of OPA you must submit your entries through the Non-Member Submittable portal in order for them to be accepted. Limit:
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MEETING CONVENED AT 6:33PM Present: Sue Fagalde Lick (president), Nancy Christopherson (vice-president), Debra Wöhrmann (Secretary), Melissa Broderick Eaton (treasurer), Efrain Diaz-Horna, Lauren Mallett, Jade Rosina McCutcheon, Bob Sterry, Lorna[SL1] Rose Hahn (attended part of the meeting) Only ten state societies sent a rep. for Slam–including Oregon. Next years’ conference in Iowa: June 21-26 First
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