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OPA Fall 2021 Poetry Contest Begins: August 1, 2021 Ends: August 31, 2021 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 entry per category (no duplicates). 1) Poet’s Choice: Limit 80 lines, any […]
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Spring 2021 Adult Contest Winning Poems for the Spanish Language Category Judge: Efraín Díaz-Horna “Recuerdo haber escuchado que un buen poema tiene la gracia de invitarnos a bailar, a pensar o a luchar con la ambiguedad de las palabras. El poema nos invita a destilar la esencia, el mensaje, de la ofrenda que nos hace
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CONGRATULATIONS! The following OPA members were recently recognized for their poetry in the 2021 NFSPS (National Federation of State Poetry Societies) contests. First, second, and third place winners will receive prize money and have their poems published in Encore, the NFSPS Journal. We celebrate your success(es) along with you. Congratulations to all! Susan Morse (Salem,
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III Concurso de Poesía Oregoniana – 2021 Bases del III Concurso de Poesía Oregoniana El Instituto de Cultura Oregoniana (ICO) que apunta a difundir, promocionar y alentar la poesía escrita en castellano desde el estado de Oregón, convoca al III Concurso de Poesía Oregoniana, 2021. Reglas Podrán concursar autores radicados en Oregón, con un poema
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2021 Spring Contest Winning Poems in the Under 30 Category Judge: Tiel Aisha Ansari First Place: “etymology for rage” by Ashley Baker I am scrolling for the words, the poem to send you, shopping for the one that’s not too angry today, like America, one that is raging quietly like most women I know, like
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2021 Spring Contest Winners for the Traditional Category (Dizain) Judge: John Sibley Williams First Place: “In the Key of Melancholy” by Barbara Blanks A sigh of shadows slips between the stars, creates a somber lyric when the sky and moon are strummed like out-of-tune guitars. The thrum of sounds, their smoky purrs awry as restless
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The Mid-Valley Poetry Society’s second Poetry in Performance event of 2021, to be held via Zoom in just over a month, will focus on poetry that gives voice to our ancestors. Join event organizer Franca Hernandez and featured performers Marilyn Johnston and Francis Opila for this mid-summer program, and bring ancestor-inspired poems of your own
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Fresh crop of poems sought for C-Tran buses Artstra is accepting submissions for Season 11 of Poetry Moves, for a new group of poems to be showcased on C-Tran buses. The program welcomes poets of any age living in the Portland-Vancouver regional area served by C-Tran. A maximum of two poems may be submitted, each
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2021 Spring Contest Winning Poems for the Theme Category: Emergence Judge – Rachel Barton First Place: “Because You Asked” by Michael Hanner Death is the return to the place we came from. Some say it looks a lot like McDonald, Goshen or East of Eden. I got here via my parents’ assault on the nothingness
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Susan Kay Anderson is part of a group of poets in a marathon fundraising poetry writing month, writing and posting one poem per day at Tupelo Press. The 30/30 Project, an extraordinary challenge and fundraiser for Tupelo Press, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) literary press. Each month, volunteer poets run the equivalent of a “poetry marathon,” writing
