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Dear Any Soldier I want you to know That the sun still rises and falls In its usual arc Here as there Wind blows through many-colored grass And chases dust Trees Blossom I want you to know That I pass no judgment Small matters of birth and timing Separate us I do not know […]
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The Language Vest In this pocket are nouns. I use them a lot so the pocket is double-stitched and velcroed but not buttoned. Over my heart is the long pocket for adjectives. My fingers no longer fit so I rarely dig down for them but they hold many memories (slithery and bitter). Over my liver
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Embracive Night Embracive night whole the moon the uncut melon of it the dreamsicle orange sweetness and white coolness even as it melts itself across the lawn yet remains entire and wholeness of body complete and sound as it is in youth and diminished but also whole in fullness of age complete as it remains leaving
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Watch for a new category on the OPA page, starting in just a few days: Winning poems from the 2014 OPA contests will be featured throughout the month, with author commentary. Come and check out some fine writing by members. Also, between watching the spring flowers bloom and working on your poem-a-day for April, watch
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ROGUE VALLEY The Down Towne Poets, a monthly reading held in Dan and Sarah Goyette’s Down Towne Coffee House, in Talent, was started in 2005 by Deborah Thornley, who moved to Tucson in 2007, leaving the program to be coordinated by Dave Harvey. Co-host Carol Brockfield and he have continued to hold it on the
MARY’S PEAK Marys Peak Poets sponsored two workshops by Oregon Poet Laureate Peter Sears based on William Stafford’s poem “Ask Me”. One workshop was held at the Philomath Historical Museum and the other at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. The workshops were coordinated by Linda Gelbrich and Sandy Lizut. Be Davison Herrera created a William Stafford
MID-VALLEY POETRY SOCIETY (Salem-area OPA unit) This spring the major project of the MVPS is a National Poetry Month exhibit of Oregon poets and artists’ collaborative works in the Capitol April 13-17. Works to be exhibited include artist’s books containing poems by Paulann Petersen and Ellen Waterston. Pieces from Paul Merchant and Ingrid Wendt collaborations with sculptors
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February 28, 2015, 2:20 pm Shawn Aveningo Member news item: Thank you to Emmanuel Sigauke for featuring five of my poems in the Munyori Literary Journal, last month. You can visit the direct link below to read “Born Where Men Go To Die”, “Shape-Shifting”, “Last Call”, “Citizen’s Mistress” and “And the Question Is…”. Please feel
January 26, 2015, 6:31 pm M I wanted to let you know that one of my poems is featured today, January 17, at the Rattle website. It was selected as the Artist’s Choice Winner in Rattle’s recent Ekphrasis Challenge #2. Entrants were asked to write a poem in response to a photograph by James Bernal.
The editors of VoiceCatcher: a journal of women’s voices & visions are pleased to announce the publication of the Winter 2015 issue. Twenty poets, five prose writers, five young voices and four artists fill the content-rich, visually-unique pages with new work. VoiceCatcher, Winter 2015: http://voicecatcherjournal.org/2015WinterIssue/_intro-page.html
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