Read the Winning Poems from OPA’s Spanish Language Category
Read the winning poems from OPA’s Spanish language category in the Fall 2021 contest.
Contests
Read the Winning Poems from OPA’s 30 and Under Category
Read the winning poems from OPA’s 30 and under category in the Fall 2021 contest.
Read the Winning Poems from OPA’s Traditional Category
Read the winning poems from OPA’s new poets category in the Fall 2021 contest.
Read the Winning Poems from OPA’s New Poets Category
Read the winning poems from OPA’s new poets category in the Fall 2021 contest.
Read the Winning Poems from OPA’s Theme Category
Read the winning poems from OPA’s theme category in the Fall 2021 contest.
Fall 2021 Adult Contest Winning Poems for the Members Only Category
Fall 2021 Adult Contest Winners in the Members Only Category Judge: Susan Leslie Moore’s poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, New York Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. She is the author of two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, She Preferred to Read the Knives and How to …
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Read the Winning Poems from OPA’s Poet Choice Category
Fall 2021 Adult Contest Winners in the Poet’s Choice Category Judge – Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita, has seven full-length books of poetry, most recently One Small Sun, from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Calyx, and the Internet’s Poetry Daily. A Stegner …
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Announcing the OPA Fall 2021 Adult Contest Winners
Congratulations to all of the poets with winning poems in our Fall contest! A total of 386 poems were entered, so the competition was rigorous. Thank you to each of our judges for their expertise and hard work making these decisions, which are never easy with so many wonderful pieces to consider. I thoroughly enjoyed …
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Spring, 2021, Adult Contest-Winning Poems, Spanish-Language Category
Spring 2021 Adult Contest Winning Poems for the Spanish Language Category Judge: Efraín Díaz-Horna “Recuerdo haber escuchado que un buen poema tiene la gracia de invitarnos a bailar, a pensar o a luchar con la ambiguedad de las palabras. El poema nos invita a destilar la esencia, el mensaje, de la ofrenda que nos hace …
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Spring 2021 Contest Winning Poems in Category “Under 30”
2021 Spring Contest Winning Poems in the Under 30 Category Judge: Tiel Aisha Ansari First Place: “etymology for rage” by Ashley Baker I am scrolling for the words, the poem to send you, shopping for the one that’s not too angry today, like America, one that is raging quietly like most women I know, like …
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