This page lists all news items published on the website. This includes calls for submissions, contests, adult contest winners, student contest winners, events, conference news, member news, and unit news.
Peter Sears, founder and director of the Oregon Literary Coalition, has been named Oregon’s seventh poet laureate, succeeding Paulann Petersen who retires at the end of this month. Read about Peter
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By now you may have heard that Vern Rutsala passed away, April 2nd. He is a great loss to poetry worldwide and to Oregon in particular. Read the Oregonian obit Watch Paulann Petersen and others read from Hubbub, in tribute to Vern
Vern Rutsala, 1934 – 2014 Read More »
Article posted: You Are Someone And Have A Right To Your Life–Richard Hugo by Larry Tyle [See all Mid-Valley Poetry Society articles.] Units: now it’s super-simple to submit your Unit News for posting on the OPA web site, just use the new web form to Submit your OPA Unit News!
OPA Web Site Updates–Article about Richard Hugo & Submitting Unit News Read More »
Oregon Poetry Association Spring 2014 Contest Winners OPA congratulates all the winners below, and thanks them and all the poets who entered for sharing their work. Poet’s Choice – John Sibley Williams, Judge 1st Place: “Dear Any Soldier” by Tess Thiringer, Oceanside, California 2nd Place: “After Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, Georgia O’Keefe” by Michelle Morouse, Macomb, Michigan 3rd
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Updated information about the OPA Spring Conference in Bend, Oregon including more about Ellen Waterston, keynote speaker (her topic is “That’s Not Funny”) who walked the Camino de Santiago across Spain in 2012. … On the OPA Strophes and NFSPS page: a link to the latest Strophes, the newsletter of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, and information about OPA’s
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OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION SPRING CONFERENCE, 2014 DEADLINES Group room rate at Doubletree Hilton: March 28th Postmark deadline for conference registration member rate has been extended to April 4th Theme for the conference is “Humor” Dates: April 11th – 13th Location: Bend, Oregon Doubletree/Hilton 300 NW Franklin Ave. Bend, OR 97701 541-317-9292 Reserve your room online
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The Oregon Poetry Association Spring Conference will be held April 11-13, 2014 in Bend, Oregon at the Doubletree/Hilton on Franklin Ave. downtown. This will be a terrific location to just park your car and walk (or if you need to drive, the trip will be only two or three blocks). The Doubletree/Hilton is close to
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OPA Spring Poetry Contest deadline is March 1, 2014. The March 1st deadline — postmark or electronic submission — for the OPA Spring 2014 Poetry Contest is only a week away. There are cash prizes and winners are invited to read their winning poem at the upcoming OPA Conference. You don’t have to live in Oregon
Poetry Contest – March 1st Deadline Approaching Read More »
The 6th annual Northwest Poets’ Concord will be held May 2 – 4, 2014, at the Hallmark Inn in Newport, Oregon. This year’s keynote speaker is Charles Goodrich, Director of the Spring Creek Project and author of Insects of South Corvallis, Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden, and A Scripture of Crows. There will be a stimulating and exciting program
Registration is Now Open for the Northwest Poets’ Concord Read More »
Nominations for Oregon Poet Laureate due February 28, 2014 Paulann Petersen, has served as Oregon’s Poet Laureate since 2010 and completes her second term in April 2014. “The Oregon Poet Laureate fosters the art of poetry, encourages literacy and learning, addresses central issues relating to humanities and heritage, and reflects on public life in Oregon. The poet
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