The title of Allan Peterson’s seventh full-length book, Amid This, vividly describes the astonishment of being alive and surrounded by a world in which there is no ordinary. Nature intersects thought and language in surprising and revealing observations. The fact that life has term limits invests everything with poignancy. Using illuminating language, poems often arise […]
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Pepper Trail’s new collection of poems, “Wild/Flower: Poems of the Oregon Flora,” has just been released by Painted Thrush Press. From spring wildflowers to autumn foliage, from delicate columbines to carnivorous cobra lilies, these poems illuminate the varied and beautiful flora of Oregon. In the words of Charles Goodrich, “Trail’s spacious poems invite us to
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My new chapbook, Marriage: A History, has been released for advance sale from Finishing Line Press. Widowed, divorced, widowed again, yet in age finding love once more, the author of Marriage: A History explores loss, grief, struggle, and love in lyrics that are by turns penetrating and tender. In poignant lyric poems Bruce Parker traces
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Announcing: Dan Liberthson’s latest poetry book, A Carnival of Cats Lovers of cats and poetry, prepare to be amazed and entertained! A Carnival of Cats features 63 poems and 12 watercolor paintings that explore the author’s love for and admiration of cats—their beauty, grace, and inscrutable character—and his bemused surmises as to what motivates their
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The beauty of Earth enriches life beyond mere survival. The pursuit of fleeting riches has led to a path strewn with destruction ignoring that prosperity is meaningless on an inhospitable planet. We have the power to restore, protect, and renew Earth’s beauty and hospitality. We choose every day whether to build a world where prosperity
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OPA member Marcia Casey’s chapbook being from being broke open has just been published by Finishing Line Press! In a childhood in which home was alienation and woods were haven, the natural world – trees, birds, seasons, water, mud – offered up the language with which the poems in being from being broke open navigate the crucial questions
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“Inside me, there, in the corner are my little girls. / All these years they still wait for me to save them,” writes J.V. Foerster in her powerful new debut collection, Holy Mess of a Girl. Here we are taken from childhood to widowhood, where “we’re pinching off bits / of bitter memories and find us all
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OPA Member, Linda Drach, of Beaverton is excited to announce that her poetry collection, Pop-Up Shrines, is being published by Finishing Line Press. The book is available for pre-order now through August 1st at: https://track.pstmrk.it/3ts/www.finishinglinepress.com%2Fproduct%2Fpop-up-shrines-by-linda-drach%2F./UKW0/7Di_AQ/AQ/529194b9-ce37-45ae-8454-ecd67b0316fd/1/FceQW-uu8u Pop-Up Shrines explores how illness and disability coexist with new rooms of discovery and resilience. It’s an exploration of life’s
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Reviewed by Carol Barrett Contradictions from an Uncertain Silence by Emmett Wheatfall Fernwood Press, 2025, 40 pages, $28.00 hardbound ISBN 9781594981524 Available at fernwoodpress.com From the incisive opening poem, “When the Time Comes for You to Speak,” to the concluding “America’s End,” Emmett Wheatfall urges us to resist and refuse the battlements of racism and
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Reviewed by Carol Barrett Splitting Open the World by Carolyn Martin The Poetry Box, 2025, 95 pages, $18.00 ISBN 978-1-956285-93-2 Available with free S/H at [email protected] Carolyn Martin’s sixth book of poems claims its title from a famous quotation by Muriel Rukeyser: “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
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