- Read Winning Poems from the OPA 2024 Spanish Contest2024 OPA Spanish Contest – Winners 1st Place: Yuliana Kenfield… Read more: Read Winning Poems from the OPA 2024 Spanish Contest
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- 2024 – Spanish Contest 2nd Place – Jesús SepúlvedaJesús Sepúlveda Jesús Sepúlveda, autor del poema “Pandemónium”, ha publicado… Read more: 2024 – Spanish Contest 2nd Place – Jesús Sepúlveda
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- SMALL FEATHER by Jade Rosina McCutcheon, reviewed by John Van DrealFinishing Line Press, 2020, 40 pages, $14.99ISBN: 1646622901Available at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/small-feather-by-jade-rosina-mccutcheon/https://www.amazon.com/Small-Feather-Jade-Rosina-McCutcheon/dp/1646622901 The cover of Jade Rosina McCutcheon’s chapbook immediately caught my eye. Within a kaleidoscope of doodled line and color, a thought bubble speaking for the soul of the work declares, I AM Still Here. Within a few hours, I was at the book’s end, where… Read more: <em>SMALL FEATHER</em> by Jade Rosina McCutcheon, reviewed by John Van Dreal
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- Dining Al Fresco with My Dog, by Sue Fagalde Lick, Reviewed by Carol BarrettReviewed by Carol Barrett Dining Al Fresco with My Dog by Sue Fagalde Lick MoonPath Press, 2024, 80 pages, $17.99… Read more: Dining Al Fresco with My Dog, by Sue Fagalde Lick, Reviewed by Carol Barrett
- Coming Down The Mountain by Gary Lark, Reviewed by Carol BarrettReviewed by Carol Barrett Coming Down the Mountain by Gary Lark Kelsay Books, 2024, 103 pages, $23.00 ISBN 978-1-63980-652-2 Available… Read more: Coming Down The Mountain by Gary Lark, Reviewed by Carol Barrett
- Raku, by Patricia Wixon, Reviewed by John RuffReviewed by John Ruff Raku by Patricia Wixon, edited by Vincent Wixon and Amy Miller Cyclone Press, 2024, 73 pages,… Read more: Raku, by Patricia Wixon, Reviewed by John Ruff
- I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine, Reviewed by Lana Hectman AyersReviewed by Lana Hectman Ayers I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine (author), Moises Camacho (Illustrator) Fernwood Press, 2024, 64… Read more: I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine, Reviewed by Lana Hectman Ayers
- The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers, Reviewed by Cynthia NeelyReviewed by Cynthia Neely The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers Fernwood Press (an imprint of Barclay Press), 2024, 134… Read more: The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers, Reviewed by Cynthia Neely
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- Dining Al Fresco with My Dog, by Sue Fagalde Lick, Reviewed by Carol BarrettReviewed by Carol Barrett Dining Al Fresco with My Dog by Sue Fagalde Lick MoonPath Press, 2024, 80 pages, $17.99 ISBN 978-1-7348739-8-6 Available at https://MoonPathPress.com Sue Fagalde Lick’s book, Dining Al Fresco with My Dog, is the most distinctive collection of poems confronting the realities of widowhood that I have ever read. Time and… Read more: Dining Al Fresco with My Dog, by Sue Fagalde Lick, Reviewed by Carol Barrett
- Coming Down The Mountain by Gary Lark, Reviewed by Carol BarrettReviewed by Carol Barrett Coming Down the Mountain by Gary Lark Kelsay Books, 2024, 103 pages, $23.00 ISBN 978-1-63980-652-2 Available at https://kelsaybooks.com; https://garylark.work Gary Lark is an Oregon poet through and through. Born here, and raised in the Umpqua Valley of Southern Oregon, he now lives in Grants Pass. Coming Down the Mountain, Lark’s latest… Read more: Coming Down The Mountain by Gary Lark, Reviewed by Carol Barrett
- Raku, by Patricia Wixon, Reviewed by John RuffReviewed by John Ruff Raku by Patricia Wixon, edited by Vincent Wixon and Amy Miller Cyclone Press, 2024, 73 pages, $15 ISBN 9798340757456 Available on Amazon Raku, Patricia Wixon’s fifth book of poems, was unfinished when she died at her home in Ashland, Oregon, this past July after a prolonged illness. Just days prior… Read more: Raku, by Patricia Wixon, Reviewed by John Ruff
- I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine, Reviewed by Lana Hectman AyersReviewed by Lana Hectman Ayers I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine (author), Moises Camacho (Illustrator) Fernwood Press, 2024, 64 pages, $28 ISBN 978-1594981395 Available at https://www.fernwoodpress.com/2024/08/05/i-remember-not-sleeping/ and sherrilevine.com A hybrid of poem, memoir, literary quotes, and graphic novel, I Remember Not Sleeping is an extraordinary collaboration between Oregon poet Sherri Levine and Mexico-born… Read more: I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine, Reviewed by Lana Hectman Ayers
- The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers, Reviewed by Cynthia NeelyReviewed by Cynthia Neely The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers Fernwood Press (an imprint of Barclay Press), 2024, 134 pages, $19 ISBN 978-1594981388 Available at https://barclaypress.corecommerce.com/the-autobiography-of-rain.html Lana Hechtman Ayers, in the The Autobiography of Rain, her sixth collection of poetry, claims not to be a painter. To a point, I gently disagree. A large… Read more: The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers, Reviewed by Cynthia Neely