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OPA Spring 2021 Poetry Contest Contest dates: February 1, 2021 to March 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, […]
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Virtual readings Livestreamed on the Ledding Library YouTube Channel Second Wednesday of each month beginning February 10, 2021 at 6:30 p.m The Milwaukie Poetry Series Committee and the Ledding Library of Milwaukie are delighted to announce the 14th season of the Milwaukie Poetry Series. We hope you are all safe and well in this difficult
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It’s almost time for the fourth annual Poetry Box Chapbook Prize. Submission Period: Feb 1 – 28, 2021 First Prize: $500 and 10 copies of their published chapbook PLUS distribution of their winning chapbook to ALL contest entrants. Second Prize: $100 and 5 copies of their published chapbook. Third Prize: $50 and 5 copies of their
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2020 Fall Adult Contest Results for Theme/Community Judge: Emmett Wheatfall First Place Winner for Theme: “Friday Night after COVID” by Christen Pagett We’ll walk to Fitzgerald’s at the corner, and I’ll order the darkest beer with the deepest froth and tip him more than 20%, even though he’s never smiled at us before. We’ll meld
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Fall 2020 Winning Poems in the Traditional/Pantoum Category Judge: Erica Goss First Place: “Say Their Names” by Dan Kaufman As we step toward justice, we must say their names. Mr. Arbery, Ms. Taylor, Mr. Floyd, discarded while Black. Knee-necked, bulleted, erased by cold aims. The roll call continues, each a bitter flashback. Mr. Floyd, Mr.
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NFSPS NEWS The January 2021 Strophes is now available online at http://www.nfsps.com/Strophes2021-Jan.pdf. Strophes is the newsletter of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS). The January issue is filled with a variety of short articles on poetry and on submitting poetry for publication, and also includes information about upcoming NFSPS contests and events, which
Fall 2020 Winning Poems for the New Poets Category Judge: Eleanor Berry First Place: “The Outcrop” by Vicki Pedone Here I am again, on the dry shoreline of this dying lake, gazing at your immutable hardness with frustration and not a little anger. How many years must I come while you haughtily guard your secrets?
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Fall 2020 Winning Poems for the Members Only Category Judge: Amy Miller First Place in Members Only: “At the Frenchglen Hotel” by Scottie Sterrett We gather with other guests, mesmerized as butterflies, opulent in cellophane envelopes, emerge from two shoeboxes. The LA lawyer, resplendent in Oakleys and Lauren has spent himself on Steens Mountain collecting
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I’m honored and humbled to join creators from around the world in the most recent edition of Oregon’s own “The Inflectionist Review” (Issue 11) with my poem “Dear Captor.” Thank you to editors John Sibley Williams and A. Molotkov. https://www.inflectionism.com/11/gina-williams/1 See the full issue here: https://www.inflectionism.com/issue11
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Third Place in Poet’s Choice: “The Ballad of Chaos Nightingale” by Charles Castle My name is Chaos Nightingale. My mother christened me, but it was my father’s song I followed here. Come with me. We begin as I’ve begun, and we’ll end no differently. I am bent by age in these somber times. My back
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