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2018 Spring Contest, Members Only: Honorable Mentions and Judge’s Comments

Honorable mentions: 1st Honorable Mention: “No Bonsai Anymore” by Brigitte Goetze, Philomath, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “The Fixer” by Toni Hanner, Eugene, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “Rudy” by Linda Ferguson, Portland, OR   Judge’s comments Each of the poems that I chose were poems that possess stickiness, haunting me, charming me, challenging me, making me […]

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2018 Spring Contest Winner: 2nd Place, Poet’s Choice

Fishing Indian Creek by Marri Champié               Across vast prairie a train slants away;             I hear it whistle at Indian Creek Bridge.   I cannot sleep for fish dreams, glittering smolt like tears on a stringer.               You stepped across pools sailed with golden leaves             each rock a metronome for years

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2018 Spring Contest Winner: 3rd Place, Poet’s Choice

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,

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2018 Spring Contest, Poet’s Choice: Honorable Mentions and Judge’s Comments

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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OPA Presents Two Poetry Workshops in Medford

2 POETRY WORKSHOPS!! Saturday, May 12th Morning session   “ANOTHER WAY IN” with Miles Frode 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Medford Public Library /Adams Room Pre-Registration required: Click here   Frode will invite participants to explore deeper connections and meaning in their poetry through energetic “word work”.  He will use auditory, visual and tactile examples—as

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Oregon Poetry Association Spring 2018 Contest Winners

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

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Eugene’s Public Poetry

Erik Muller is one of OPA’s representatives on the Oregon Poetry Collection’s governing committee. Check out new OPC material at https://oregonpoets.org/resources/oregon-poetry-collection/ Here he writes about public poetry in Eugene. One: Poems Inscribed on Steel Plenty of poetry books right at home and more than I’ll ever get to at the Eugene Public Library. But still

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Rachel Barton launches third issue of Willawaw Journal

Spring 2018 Issue 3 is now “live” and ready for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy a wealth of fine art from Leslie Green, Judith Sander, Kathy Jederlinich and others. Poetry abounds from near and far: South Africa, Wales, Australia, and 14 states in the US. You will find several NW poets including Paulann Petersen, Sue Fagalde

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