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Elizabeth Woody is a poet, artist and advocate of understanding between the people of her Native American culture and those of the majority culture in America. Read more
Oregon Poets: Oregon Poet Laureate weaves her Native American heritage into poetry Read More »
OPA members may be interested in “Finding Purpose: Honing the Practice of Making Meaning in Medicine,” an article about using poetry to facilitate discussions among physicians, among “interprofessional health care teams,” and between healthcare practitioners and patients. It’s just been published by The Permanente Journal (Permanente is a medical journal akin to JAMA or the
Poetry and Medicine article by Lois Leveen Read More »
Honorable mentions: 1st Honorable Mention: “Memorial Day” by Joanna Rose, Portland, OR 2nd Honorable Mention: “Fostering a Better World” by Jennifer Rood, Grants Pass, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “After Midnight” by Stephanie Striffler, Portland, OR Judge’s comments I thought a lot about meaning as I read these poems. I thought about how language
2107 Fall Contest New Poets: Honorable Mentions and Judge’s Comments Read More »
I Went to School Today Salvador Dali was instructing, painfully, the concept of relativity. “Everything is relative to something else… this chair is relative to that corner. And the corner is relative to the clock on the wall as well as the room down that hall.” Einstein was sweeping up after the children’s lunch
2017 Fall Contest Winner: 3rd Place, New Poets Read More »
George Venn’s new book, Lichen Songs (Kelsay Books), is in the running for a 2018 Pulitzer Prize. Winners and finalists will be announced in April 2018. Watch this space for more! George Venn was formerly Writer in Residence at Eastern Oregon University. He has served on the editorial boards of the Oregon Historical Quarterly, Oregon
Oregon poet George Venn in running for Pulitzer Prize Read More »
Cosmonaut’s Lament Above her head the stars, bleary in their watchfulness Under her feet black offal, of metal tang and smoke and char Contrails unspool like strands of hair in zero G and the cosmonaut thinks of earthbound tidepools little pockets of life where there should be no life Of
2017 Fall Contest Winner: 2nd Place, New Poets Read More »
Disturbance Theory at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest [gview file=”https://oregonpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DisturbanceTheoryCorrected.pdf”] Judge’s comments I thought a lot about meaning as I read these poems. I thought about how language creates meaning, how humans create language, and how, despite how frail the letters words are made of, how inadequate the sounds of words are to represent the wide
2017 Fall Contest Winner: 1st Place, New Poets Read More »
Honorable mentions: 1st Honorable Mention: “Who Will Be Sent” by Laurel Benjamin, Albany, CA 2nd Honorable Mention: “A Thousand Resting Stars” by Alan Contreras, Eugene, OR 3rd Honorable Mention: “A Commanding Position in the World” by Susan Whitney, Eugene, OR —Shaindel Beers
2017 Fall Contest: Theme, Current Events: Honorable Mentions Read More »
The Greatest Show on Earth Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1919–2017 Grandma said the circus came to town by train, paraded through the streets to the fairgrounds tigers in horse-drawn cages, clowns, a man on stilts, a brass band, acrobats in spangled costumes; the children tugged at their parents’ hands to
2017 Fall Contest Winner: 3rd Place, Theme–Current Events Read More »
Off Old Hwy. 99 Old men fill the donut shop this morning, every morning, talking politics in matched pairs; they agree about the state of things, which is much worse than it used to be when they were as young as the girl at the glass case deciding on which donut she
2017 Fall Contest Winner: 2nd Place, Theme–Current Events Read More »
