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For the students and teachers in your life: Cascadia, OPA’s K-12 student poetry contest, closes December 31st (postmark deadline). Get those poems to the Post Office! Cascadia Poetry Contest c/o Lisa Baldwin 560A NE F Street, #643 Grants Pass, OR 97526 Detailed guidelines under CONTESTS > Student Contest
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[gview file=”https://oregonpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Verseweavers-2015-front-cover-with-Rogue-River.pdf”] The 2015 volume of Verseweavers should be available in time for the holidays. Watch your mail for it. Extra copies can be ordered under PUBLICATIONS > Verseweavers. Read the full item to preview the cover, a beautiful painting by OPA member Charlotte Abernathy.
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If you have a poetry manuscript about ready to go, consider submitting it to The National Federation of State Poetry Societies 2016 STEVENS POETRY MANUSCRIPT COMPETITION. Submit 48-70 pages of poetry. First prize is $1,000 + publication + 50 copies. The winner will be invited to read at the June 2017 National Federation convention in
NFSPS Stevens Poetry Manuscript: Deadline November 30 Read More »
NFSPS seeks presenters for national database! If you would like to demonstrate the strength of Oregon’s poetry to audiences in other states, please download the form below and send to the address included. [gview file=”https://oregonpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NFSPS-speaker-database.pdf”] This form is permanently located under RESOURCES > NFSPS and Strophes.
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She simply blurted out her response and with few edits sent it off. The author requested permission to print it in her blog. It can be read here: http://www.drewmyron.com/off-the-page/2016/10/20/thankful-thursday-thinking-of-you.html
Shirley Plummer was so stunned by a newsletter piece Read More »
2017 Cascadia Student Poetry Contest Rules Poems accepted between October 15, 2016 and December 31, 2016 (postmark deadline) Division I: Kindergarten—Grade 2 Division II: Grade 3—Grade 5 Division III: Grade 6—Grade 8 Division IV: Grade 9—Grade 12 Prizes: 10 unranked prizes in each Division, $10.00 each Each winner will receive a certificate and a copy of Cascadia: The Oregon Student
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October 15th is the postmark and Submittable deadline for the fall contest. Get your entries in now! Joan Dobbie chairs: see categories and additional guidelines at Contests > Adult Contest and submit entries via Submittable or OPA, Contest Entries, P.O. Box 14582, Portland, OR 97293.
REMINDER: Fall Contest closes October 15th! Read More »
Michael Simon has had two poems published in East on Central: I Was Going To Write Heart-Stoppingly and Long Ago They Traveled Only At The Speed of Sound. Michael also has had one poem published this month in Fine Lines: Hike Miles To Taste It.
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Nancy Christopherson’s poem “Removing the Dishes” has been published in XANADU 2016 (LIPC). Print issue, $15. Available now. Send check or money order to: Long Island Poetry Collective, P.O. Box 773, Huntington, NY 11743 or email request to: [email protected]
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Nancy Christopherson’s poems “Grating Carrots” and “Finding Center” are forthcoming in the Fall Issue of Helen: A Literary Magazine, to be published October 15, 2016. “Finding Center” will be available in video poem format as well as in print. Visit: www.helenpresents.com
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