Adult Contest Winners

Codicil for Grief That he no longer sleeps past four in the morning. That she drank a six-pack of Miller’s before lying down with the handgun. That he found his brother in the backseat of a Ford. That his brother never woke up. That his brother’s notebooks were filled with tiny words. That his brother […]

Call It Water, Call It Rain Reading Joy Harjo in Astoria, I watch words drop through fog onto the ground. At the coffee shop on 15th and Duane, the windows steam water drip drips rils down the pane Outside the drizzle drifts on wind evergreens shift         a gauze fringe between stoic

Dear Any Soldier   I want you to know That the sun still rises and falls In its usual arc Here as there Wind blows through many-colored grass And chases dust Trees Blossom I want you to know That I pass no judgment Small matters of birth and timing Separate us I do not know

The Language Vest In this pocket are nouns. I use them a lot so the pocket is double-stitched and velcroed but not buttoned. Over my heart is the long pocket for adjectives. My fingers no longer fit so I rarely dig down for them but they hold many memories (slithery and bitter). Over my liver

Embracive Night Embracive night whole the moon the uncut melon of it the dreamsicle orange sweetness and white coolness even as it melts itself across the lawn yet remains entire and wholeness of body complete and sound as it is in youth and diminished but also whole in fullness of age complete as it remains leaving

Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2014 Contest Winners  OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered for sharing their work. Poet’s Choice. Judge: Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua 1st place: “Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Sandra Rokoff-Lizut, Corvallis 2nd place: “Over Breakfast and the News I Wonder” by Hannah Thomassen,

Oregon Poetry Association Spring 2014 Contest Winners  OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered for sharing their work. Poet’s Choice – John Sibley Williams, Judge 1st Place: “Dear Any Soldier” by Tess Thiringer, Oceanside, California 2nd Place: “After Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, Georgia O’Keefe” by Michelle Morouse, Macomb, Michigan 3rd

Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2013 Contest Winners  OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered for sharing their work.   Poet’s Choice — Sage Cohen, Judge  1st Place: “For All I Know” by Donna Prinzmetal, Portland 2nd Place: “Reading Aloud” by Christopher Oie Keller, Happy Valley 3rd Place:

Oregon Poetry Association Spring 2013 Contest Winners OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them  and all the poets who entered for sharing their work. Poet’s Choice — M. E. Hope, Judge 1st Place: “A Week’s Pay Lost at the Lizard Fight” by Armin Tolentino, Portland 2nd Place: “A Homeless Lady Speaks” by Hannah

  2012 FALL CONTEST WINNERS OPA congratulates all the poets below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered our most recent contest for sharing their work.   Poet’s Choice – Peter Sears First Place: “Untitled” by Brad Canfield Second Place: “Shower” by Liz Robinson Third Place: “Nail” by Steve Jones Fourth Place: “New Neighbors” by Linda