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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 […]
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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
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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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The Eugene/Springfield Unit of OPA presents their Spring Poetry Reading on Tuesday April 1, 2013, 7:00 p.m., at the Springfield Public Library, 225 Fifth Street, 97477. The readers will be: Daniel Anderson, Anita Sullivan, and Stephanie Lenox.
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Submissions are now open for the adult poetry contest of spring 2014, under the able chairmanship of board member A. Molotkov. For the first time, OPA is offering an online submission option to our poetry contest. This will save our contest chairs and judges a great deal of work, and reduce the risk of entries
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December 7, 2013, 11:13 am Barton, Rachel Rachel Barton’s poem, “This is not a Drill” will be published in the next issue of the Oregon English Journal. She has also been approved to teach a poetry workshop at LBCC, Benton Center, beginning Jan. 9. It will run Thursday afternoons, 1:-2:50, and will finish on March
LAUNCH OF THE NEW OPA PAGE: MEMBER WEBSITES Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit their website information for the launch of the new OPA Member Websites page! I just clicked through to all the websites and I can tell you there is a lot of information and a lot to think about.
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As we approach the 4th anniversary of the Figures of Speech reading series, we will be celebrating the Stafford Centennial on January 7th at In Other Words by hosting the book launch for Ooligan Press as they present We Belong in History: Writing with William Stafford, an anthology of student poems in response to the
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On Tuesday, October 22, the Eugene-Springfield chapter of OPA presented poets Karen Holmberg, Frank Rossini and Amanda Powell as part of their Arts, Culture and Education Series at the Springfield Library. It was an absolutely wonderful reading, and as always, we were warmly welcomed by the Springfield Library. Reported by Cathy McGuire (for Sharon Munson)
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Marys Peak Poets meet the last Sunday of the month for critiquing. We do plan events supported by individuals attending. We average 8-12 poets. We meet at Linda Smith’s from 7-9. Everyone is welcome. In September members helped judge the Fall Festival Youth Contest and read at the open mic reading of young and older
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