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Would you like to teach a one-hour workshop at OPA’s annual conference, scheduled for Oct. 7, 2023 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, “Getting Past the …
Winners of the 2022 adult contests will read their prizewinning poems on Tuesday, March 14 (spring) and Thursday, March 16 (fall), both at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Their work will be published in the upcoming issue of Verseweavers, which has gone to press and will soon be mailed to all members and contest winners. The …
Want to get behind the scenes and have a say in upcoming OPA activities? Here’s your chance. Board member Jade Rosina McCutcheon is moving back to Australia and has reluctantly resigned. We need a new member for the executive board to help us plan and execute the many activities of one of the largest state …
The Clackamas County Arts Alliance Literary Arts Committee invites Clackamas County writers to submit their work to their 2023 writing contest. Poems must fit the theme “Clackamas County: Its Life, Its History, Its Future.” Entries will be accepted from Jan. 3 to April 3, 2023. For complete guidelines, click here.
OPA has had a tough four months since our new board was named at the conference in October. Three of our board members have quit. Historian Priscilla Hunter has moved to Texas, webmaster/events coordinator Jade Rosina McCutcheon is moving back to Australia, and treasurer Melissa Eaton had to leave for person reasons. In addition, the …
OPA’s new year is off to a crazy/busy/wild start Read More »
If you are an OPA member who is not afraid of spreadsheets, we need you! We are seeking a new treasurer asap, ideally someone with an accounting or bookkeeping background. You would receive all the information needed to get started. You’d have the delight of becoming a board member and contribute to the vitality and …
OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION 2023 ADULT SPRING CONTEST Begins: February 1, 2023 Ends: March 1, 2023 Winners will be announced mid-to-late April, 2023 CATEGORIES Please remember that if you are not a current member of OPA you must submit your entries through the Non-Member Submittable portal in order for them to be accepted. Limit: one poem …
Announcing OPA’s 2023 Adult Spring Poetry Contest — Categories, Guidelines, Judges Read More »
Finishing Line Press, 2020, 40 pages, $14.99ISBN: 1646622901Available at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/small-feather-by-jade-rosina-mccutcheon/https://www.amazon.com/Small-Feather-Jade-Rosina-McCutcheon/dp/1646622901 The cover of Jade Rosina McCutcheon’s chapbook immediately caught my eye. Within a kaleidoscope of doodled line and color, a thought bubble speaking for the soul of the work declares, I AM Still Here. Within a few hours, I was at the book’s end, where …
SMALL FEATHER by Jade Rosina McCutcheon, reviewed by John Van Dreal Read More »
It’s the holidays. For some, our poetic hearts are singing. For others, we shout Bah! Humbug! and wish the insanity would end. When poets have strong feelings, they write poems. OPA invites you to a Zoom holiday/anti-holiday open mic on Tuesday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m. Come share your holiday-oriented poems or, if your muse …
Bob Sterry joined the OPA board on Nov. 7. He replaces Priscilla Hunter, who has moved to Texas. Bob is a voice-over actor, audiobook narrator, writer of short stories and poetry, singer, occasional stage actor and humorist. Originally trained in England as a research analytical chemist, he immigrated into the United States in 1973, working …
