Adult Contest Winners

2024 OPA Spanish Contest – Winners 1st Place: Yuliana Kenfield (Gamarra Medrano), “Lluvias Oregonianas” 2nd Place: Jesús Sepúlveda, “Pandemónium” 3rd Place: Arturo Sarmiento, “Escape” Runners-up: Germán Rizo, “La oscuridad como destino” Efrain M. Diaz-Horna, “El buscador de sueños” Sonia Priscila Ticas, “Ondulaciones” Concepcion Samano, “Ciclo” JUDGEDr. Isabel Jaén Portill Dr. Isabel Jaén Portillo is Professor […]

Yuliana Kenfield (Gamarra Medrano) Yuliana Kenfield (Gamarra Medrano) nació en Cusco, Perú. Vive en los Estados Unidos desde el 2006. Yuliana fue paralegal de inmigración, maestra bilingüe, y capacitadora de maestros multilingües. Es madre de mellizos, a quienes los cría con los idiomas de su familia: castellano, inglés y quechua. Es autora de poesía, cuento, y un libro

Jesús Sepúlveda Jesús Sepúlveda, autor del poema “Pandemónium”, ha publicado diecisiete libros, por mencionar algunos: El jardín de las peculiaridades (2002) y las antologías Poemas de un bárbaro (2013) y Poço de seda (2022). Su obra ha sido traducida a doce idiomas y publicada en una veintena de países, llevándolo a participar en numerosos festivales

Arturo Sarmiento Arturo Sarmiento Linares nació en la Ciudad de México. Realizó sus estudios profesionales en Humanidades y Periodismo en la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana y en la UNAM. En 1992 obtiene la Licencia Federal de Locutor de Radio y Televisión. Actualmente es Director de Radio Poder KTUP y es miembro del Instituto

2024 OPA Adult Contest – Oregon Poets Choice Category – Winners Judge’s Overall Comments: The Poet’s Choice selection was a cross-section of the best of contemporary American poetry—free verse, formal verse, special forms such as the Golden Shovel and Abecedarian, poems of memory, nature poems, ecopoems, spiritual poems, political poems, humorous poems, including limericks, and

Chiaroscuro Of course I remember Firenze—outside and in. And I remember getting here, too, sleeping on second-class trains with a cheap leather coat as my pillow. Marguerite and I stayed up all night, writing in diaries by the light of little white candles stolen from churches. Words I lost a long time ago. We swore

Your Rescue There was no other option but forget. No one wanted to hear the clichéd account: Girl has too much to drink. Girl shouldn’t have gone to the party. Girl was wearing a toga? And even if you could find someone to believe, you knew whose side they would take. So, you carry the

Three Days on Cloud Mountain Before sunrise, we arrange ourselves cross-legged on floor cushions or perched on wooden stools, our legs bent back and tucked under. We are here to practice simple things. Sitting. Breathing. And later, walking. Rain thrums the roof and drips off the gutters. Closer, the soft susurrus of breath lulls us

2024 OPA Adult Contest – Members Only Category – Winners Judge’s Overall Comments: Thank you for inviting me to judge this year’s Members Only category. I can truthfully say that I enjoyed reading all 73 poems. I sensed an overarching theme of resilience contained with this collection that defined the mood of many of these