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OPA is thrilled to post all of the winners and honorable mentions from the 2025 contests! OPA National Poetry Month Contest (judged by Emmet Wheatfall) 1st Place: “Mary Magdalene Has Second Thoughts about Jesus” by Ann Heath 2nd Place: “Reckoning” by Sherri Levine 3rd Place: “October Snow in the Foothills of the Coast Range” by […]
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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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This year there are twelve workshop sessions, including four with either Spanish or Bilingual presentations. We will be posting a detailed description of each presentation with a biography of the presenter. Meanwhile here is a list of those presenters and the title of their session. Find all the latest info and links including brief workshop
OPA 2025 Conference Workshops Announced! Read More »
At the 2024 annual meeting, members had approved a motion to allow making changes to the OPA Constitution and Bylaws through a secure poll sent to current members. After an earlier poll seeking member comments on the proposed changes, a voting poll with several proposed changes was sent to the current membership on 7/6/25 and
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OPA Member, Ingrid Wendt, of Eugene, is excited to announce that one of her poems has been set to choral music by composer Paul Safar, and its premier performance (sung by the vocal ensemble Humanis) will occur in Portland on August 1, at 7:30 pm, in the Lincoln Hall Recital Hall, PSU, 1620 SW Park
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2026 will be the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Oregon Poetry Association! There could be no better year for you and your colleagues to consider joining the OPA Board, which is a working team that supports contests and an annual conference, promotes connections among members, and celebrates Oregon poets and poetry. As a
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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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“Celebration of Life for Martha and Jerry Gatchell” Sunday, June 22, 4-6 PM: Tsunami Books 2585 Willamette St. Eugene, OR, 97405 On Sunday, June 22 at 4 p.m. we’ll celebrate the lives of Martha and Jerry Gatchell at Tsunami Books. For decades Martha and Jerry were pillars of the Eugene and the whole statewide Oregon
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