I Sit Astride the Globe A journey in the terrain of a dragon— highway tunnels, one conceives another， the contour of my birth place. I gauge my homesickness while twirling the crimson peppercorns with the tip of my tongue. They numb me. Outside the abandoned woods, sculptured in the silence of the
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Rest & Recuperation, 1970 Ninety days before the beach, Honey Peach Tomato started leg lifts and vinyl thighs. She bought boxes of blondness, a stiff coil to press between her palms for bikini pecs, a suitcase. She knew herself gorgeous. In this fierce contest, Angel Babe Fox would outfox fried chicken and jasmine, out-dazzle
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Honorable mentions: 1st Honorable Mention: “Knots” by David Southward, Milwaukee, WI 2nd Honorable Mention: “How we know” by Lois Leveen, Portland, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “In Rome” by Don Hogle, New York, NY 4th Honorable Mention: “Mr. Stagmeyer’s Typing Class” by Jay Schroder, Medford, OR Judge’s comments I found judging the Poet’s
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We tried to do it all— To live in a rustic log cabin four miles from the nearest neighbor at the end of a road we had to maintain ourselves. It is one of the loveliest spots in the county outside of the Wilderness. We spent our 2-week honeymoon there, and then the rest
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In Defense of Loneliness “You’re wondering if I’m lonely”: after Adrienne Rich Are you asking about this second when the blue between clouds is so spare I could be imagining it, not the blue but the loneliness, the space between what’s missing and what’s there. Not what’s there, really, but more the
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Don’t Bother the Flowers When grandma told me to stop buying her flowers I didn’t know what to do with the daffodils I was holding in my hand. Should I throw them in the garbage disposal, or put them in a vase? I started worrying about flowers withering, stalks drooping, shriveled leaves, and dried
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OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered for sharing their work. Poet’s Choice — Joe Wilkins, Judge 1st Place: “Don’t Bother the Flowers” by Sherri Levine, Portland, OR 2nd Place: “In Defense of Loneliness” by Donna Prinzmetal, Portland, OR 3rd Place: “We tried to do it
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2018 Cascadia Student Poetry Contest Guidelines Poems accepted between October 15, 2017 and December 31, 2017 (postmark deadline) Division I: Kindergarten—Grade 2 Division II: Grade 3—Grade 5 Division III: Grade 6—Grade 8 Division IV: Grade 9—Grade 12 Contest open to all K-12 students throughout the state of Oregon, including private, parochial and home school students. Each winner
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Deadline September 1st 2017 Limit: one poem per category. Spaces between stanzas do not count as lines. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be published on the OPA website and in OPA’s annual anthology, Verseweavers Categories Limit: one entry per category. 1) Poet’s Choice: Limit 80 lines, any subject, any form. Judge: Joe
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Fall Contest Opens This Summer, with a September 1st Deadline Poet’s Choice, any subject, any form, 80-line limit Members Only, any subject, any form, 20-line limit New Poets, any subject, any form, 30-line limit Traditional Form, any subject, Villanelle– usually 19 lines (but modern variations sometimes have other line counts) Themed, current events, any form,
