- Oregon Poetry Association virtual conference
OPA is bringing our annual conference to you through Zoom … Read more - ANNOUNCING OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION 2023 ADULT FALL CONTESTCategories, Guidelines, Judges OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION 2023 ADULT FALL CONTEST … Read more
- 2022 Prizewinners Readings March 14 and 16Winners of the 2022 adult contests will read their prizewinning … Read more
Poet’s Spotlight
- 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
Member News
- 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 … Read more
- Holiday/Anti-Holiday Open Mic Dec. 13It’s the holidays. For some, our poetic hearts are singing. For others, we shout Bah! Humbug! and wish the insanity … Read more
- Bob Sterry Joins OPA BoardBob Sterry joined the OPA board on Nov. 7. He replaces Priscilla Hunter, who has moved to Texas. Bob is … Read more
- Welcome New OPA Board MembersThe OPA board welcomed three new members at its Oct. 9 meeting and said sad goodbyes to longtime members, Dave … Read more
- New poems coming from J.V. Foerster in two publications
J.V. Foerster has forthcoming work in Green Ink Press, a UK publication, and Poems and visual art in The Field … Read more
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Book Reviews
- Ramadan in Summer by Bruce Parker, reviewed by Melody WilsonFinishing Line Press, 2021, 42 pages $14.99 ISBN 978-1646627240 Available at Amazon Bruce Parker’s Ramadan in Summer transports us to physical and emotional places with spare authenticity. The first example is in the title poem, “Ramadan in Summer,” when the speaker watches a worker listlessly picking things up and putting them down on the fourth floor of an unfinished apartment … Read more
- Small Matters Mean the World by David Memmottreviewed by George Vennredbat books, 2022, 73 pages, $16ISBN 978-1-946970-08-4Available at www.redbatbooks.com, Ingram, Bookshop.org, Amazon.com, Powells.com To appreciate David Memmott’s achievement in Small Matters Mean the World (2022), readers might start with the front cover. Memmott’s colorful digital collage suggests a kaleidoscope preparing the reader to celebrate and explore the magic of natural, organic, and … Read more
- The ground at my feet: Sustaining a family and a forestby Ann Stinson Reviewed by Melody Wilson Oregon State University Press, 2021, 144 pages, $21.95 ISBN-13978-0870711466 Available at Annie Bloom’s and Broadway Books When I say I love a book, maybe I mean it meets my expectations or it’s better than other books I’ve read. Maybe I mean I learned a lot without working too … Read more
- 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
- This is the Lightness by Rachel Barton, reviewed by Louise BardenThe Poetry Box, 2022, 87 pages, $18.00ISBN: 978-1-956285-17-8Available at The Poetry Boxhttps://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/lightness and Amazon In This is the Lightness,her new collection from The Poetry Box,Rachel Barton takes us on a spiritual and imaginative journey, starting with her narrator’s youthful sense of a universe so small…I wonder it should matter at all (“Sometimes My Universe”) through … Read more