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Marriage: A History, has been released for advance sale from Finishing Line Press

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

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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OPA Contest Results 2025

OPA Contest Results 2025 Spring OPA National Poetry Month Contest (judged by Emmet Wheatfall) 1st Place: Ann Heath, “Mary Magdalene Has Second Thoughts about Jesus” 2nd Place: “Reckoning” by Sherri Levine 3rd Place: “October Snow in the Foothills of the Coast Range” by Doug Stone Spanish Contest (judged by Ximena Keogh Serrano) 1st Prize: “Imagen

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New Release, Earth in Silhouette: Poems, by T. L. Cooper

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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being from being broke open by Marcia Casey

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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