2022 FALL ADULT CONTEST RESULTS SPANISH LANGUAGE: JUDGE: AMELIA DIAZ ETTINGER 1st Place — La luna del mediodía, Anna Jasinska 2nd Place — Duraznos de Sangre India, Jabez W. Churchill No Honorable Mentions selected. Judge’s Comments: none. ____________________ La luna del mediodía – 1st Place, Anna Jasinska Al mediodía camino insomne bajo la luna brillante—
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Polish your poems. It’s contest time again!Begins: August 1, 2022Ends: September 1, 2022 CATEGORIESPlease remember that if you are not a current member of OPA you must submit yourentries through the Non-Member Submittable portal in order for them to be accepted.Limit: one poem per category (no duplicates).1) Poet’s Choice: Limit 80 lines, any subject, any
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By Sue Fagalde Lick, OPA president Oregon boasts hundreds of wonderful poets, but our state is just one tiny part of the poetry world. In June, I traveled to Columbus, Ohio for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies’ annual convention and witnessed a much larger chunk of that world. The convention was a hybrid,
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Would you like to teach a one-hour workshop at OPA’s annual conference, scheduled for Oct. 8, 2022 on Zoom? We are currently collecting workshop proposals, hoping for a healthy mix of craft talks, generative workshops, and everything related to the business of writing and publishing poetry, keeping in mind this year’s theme, “Poetry in Troubled
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We are delighted to welcome the newest member of the OPA Board of Directors, Efraín Díaz-Horna. He will serve the remainder of the term of Rayn Roberts, who has resigned. That term expires in October 2023, when Efraín will be eligible to run for a full term. Efraín is active in Oregon’s Hispanic poetry community,
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OPA Offers Free Performance Poetry Workshop with Oregon’s own Alex Dang! Prizewinning slam poet Alex Dang! will present a Zoom workshop on performance poetry for OPA on Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m. Open to all poets, it will cover how to get started with slam and other varieties of spoken word poetry, how to move from
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Here is the link to Susan Kay Anderson’s poem about bees, published in Heron Tree: “The Problem”
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Here is the link to Susan Kay Anderson’s poem about bees, published in Heron Tree: “The Problem”
Susan Kay Anderson’s poem, “The Problem” published in Heron Tree Read More »
The poem “Americans”, by James Garland, earned a runner-up prize in the Mirabai Poetry contest in January. The poem has now been published in the Summer 2020 issue of The Raw Art Review (©2020 Henry G. Stanton, UnCollected Press), “A Journal of Storm and Urge”.
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