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Premiere of opera with music and libretto by Christopher M. Wicks

“Love Is Strong As Death,” a concise opera with music and libretto by Silvertonian Christopher M. Wicks, will be premiered at 2 PM on February 3, 2018 at the Mount Angel Abbey Library Auditorium at One Abbey Drive, St. Benedict, Ore. A repeat performance will take place on February 10, also at 2 PM. The

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Fall 2021 Adult Contest Winning Poems for the Members Only Category

Fall 2021 Adult Contest Winners in the Members Only Category Judge: Susan Leslie Moore’s poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, New York Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. She is the author of two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, She Preferred to Read the Knives and How to

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Read the Winning Poems from OPA’s Poet Choice Category

Fall 2021 Adult Contest Winners in the Poet’s Choice Category Judge – Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita, has seven full-length books of poetry, most recently One Small Sun, from Salmon Poetry in Ireland. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Calyx, and the Internet’s Poetry Daily. A Stegner

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Announcing the OPA Fall 2021 Adult Contest Winners

Congratulations to all of the poets with winning poems in our Fall contest!  A total of 386 poems were entered, so the competition was rigorous.  Thank you to each of our judges for their expertise and hard work making these decisions, which are never easy with so many wonderful pieces to consider.  I thoroughly enjoyed

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OPA Executive Board

The 2021-22 OPA board convened Oct. 10 via Zoom to elect officers and say farewell to outgoing board members Dale Champlin, Susan Morse and Jennifer Rood. We welcomed new board members Nancy Christopherson, Priscilla Hunter, and Lauren Mallett and look forward to working with them. Our thanks to all these wonderful poets for their talent,

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OPA Fall 2021 Poetry Contest – categories and entry guidelines

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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