Persephone by Carol Clark Williams Foolish child, despite her mother’s wild-eyed searching and entreating, she was enticed into eating what she should not while the people above her starved and prayed, and Demeter moved earth and Sun to bring her daughter home. Like Eve, who fed on fruit with cyanide seeds, she returned, […]
2018 Spring Contest Winner: 3rd Place, Poet’s Choice Read More »
Honorable mentions: 1st Honorable Mention: “Monday after Rain” by Michael Hanner, Eugene, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “Fourth Wave” by Linda Ferguson, Portland, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “Spinning Song” by Toni Hanner, Eugene, OR Judge’s comments The poets of Oregon have so much to say to the world. They see a frayed time and write
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Poet’s Choice — Armin Tolentino, Judge 1st Place: “Knowledge of Good and Evil” by Penelope Scambly Schott, Portland, OR 2nd Place: “Fishing Indian Creek” by Marri Champié, Kuna, ID 3rd Place: “Persephone” by Carol Clark Williams, York, PA 1st Honorable Mention: “Monday after Rain” by Michael Hanner, Eugene, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “Fourth Wave” by
Oregon Poetry Association Spring 2018 Contest Winners Read More »
The Oregon Poetry Association congratulates the winners of the 2018 Cascadia poetry contest, open to all K-12 students including private, home, and parochial school students. Division I: Kindergarten through Second Grade Ryan Bowles, Frankenstein’s Underwear, Beverly Cleary School, Portland, teacher Tricia Barry Nat Butler, Witches and Wolves, Beverly Cleary School, Portland, teacher Tricia Barry Caleb
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Spring Contest Deadline March 1st! Read More »
Deadline March 1 2018 Categories (Limit: one entry per category.) 1) Poet’s Choice: Limit 80 lines, any subject, any form. Judge: Armin Tolentino. 2) Members Only: Limit 20 lines, any subject, any form. Entrant must be a current OPA member. Judge: Tim Whitsel. 3) New Poets: Limit 30 lines, any subject, any form. A new
OPA Spring 2018 Contest Opens Today Read More »
Honorable mentions: 1st Honorable Mention: “Memorial Day” by Joanna Rose, Portland, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “Fostering a Better World” by Jennifer Rood, Grants Pass, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “After Midnight” by Stephanie Striffler, Portland, OR Judge’s comments I thought a lot about meaning as I read these poems. I thought about how language
2107 Fall Contest New Poets: Honorable Mentions and Judge’s Comments Read More »
I Went to School Today Salvador Dali was instructing, painfully, the concept of relativity. “Everything is relative to something else… this chair is relative to that corner. And the corner is relative to the clock on the wall as well as the room down that hall.” Einstein was sweeping up after the children’s lunch
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Cosmonaut’s Lament Above her head the stars, bleary in their watchfulness Under her feet black offal, of metal tang and smoke and char Contrails unspool like strands of hair in zero G and the cosmonaut thinks of earthbound tidepools little pockets of life where there should be no life Of
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Disturbance Theory at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest [gview file=”https://oregonpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DisturbanceTheoryCorrected.pdf”] Judge’s comments I thought a lot about meaning as I read these poems. I thought about how language creates meaning, how humans create language, and how, despite how frail the letters words are made of, how inadequate the sounds of words are to represent the wide
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