Sage Cohen, author of Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry
(Writer's Digest Books, 2009) invites you to submit up to three poems
that express the spirit of "the life poetic" to "The Life Poetic iPoem
Contest" by November 1. Sage will be choosing 365 poems for inclusion
in an iPhone app that features a poem a day for a year.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Poem specs:
Please submit up to three unpublished poems.
Each poem should have NO MORE THAN 20 lines.
Poems should express the poet's interpretation of the theme "The Life Poetic."
Submissions specs:
Submission should be a single Word doc that includes: cover letter + one poem per page (for a maximum total of four pages).
Please include your name, email address, phone number and birthday (Month and day) on every poem.
Cover letter should include one URL you'd like to appear as a bio credit after your name.
Please name Word doc with your first/last name. For example, mine would be: sagecohen.doc.
Send submissions to: Sage(at)sagesaidso(dot)com. You will receive confirmation within 48
hours of receipt.
One submission of up to three poems per poet, please.
Deadlines:
NEW DEADLINE: Submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. PST on November 1, 2010.
"You cope all year with the creative isolation that's part of the writer's journey. Our annual conference is an opportunity for you to meet and exchange ideas with hundreds of other writers, to hone your craft, find expert advice, sell your work and get your creative juices flowing. Inspiration is what it's all about, and the inspiration you gain during the Willamette Writer's 2010 conference this August will help fire you up and carry you through the winter months - and work - ahead.
This year's workshops will be so good you will wish you had a clone before it's over. Choose from nearly 100 workshops conducted by seasoned pros in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, screenwriting, manuscript editing, publishing, pitching, entering writing contests, research and business. Whether you write self-help books, historic fiction, blockbuster Hollywood screenplays, mysteries, romance, magazine articles, sci-fi, plays, children's books, humor, or simply need help marketing yourself as a professional, you'll find helpful guidance and keen insights at the 2010 Willamette Writer's Conference."
Oregon Humanities
magazine is seeking submissions for the fall 2010 issue on the theme “Ha!”
which will explore humor, happiness, and joy, especially as they pertain to
American history, culture, values, and identity. They are especially interested
in submissions that consider what it means to pursue happiness in America and
how this pursuit shapes our culture and identities.
They welcome all forms of nonfiction writing, including scholarly essays, personal
essays, and journalistic articles. They accept proposals and drafts of scholarly
and journalistic features, which range between 2,500 and 4,000 words in length. They accept drafts only of personal essays, which should consider larger thematic
questions and run no longer than 2,000 words. They almost exclusively publish
Oregon-based writers. All contributors receive an honorarium. Currently the
magazine is distributed to more than 12,000 readers. Essays from Oregon
Humanities have been reprinted or excerpted in the Pushcart Prize anthology and
the Utne Reader, and a recent essay will be included in Best American Essays
2010. You can view their writers’ guidelines and the current issue online at
oregonhumanities.org .
If you are interested in contributing to this issue, please submit a proposal
or draft by July 12, 2010, to Kathleen Holt, Editor, Oregon Humanities
magazine, 813 SW Alder Street, Suite 702, Portland, Oregon, 97205, or k.holt@oregonhumanities.org. No
phone calls, please.
April, 26, 2010 – Salem, ORE.Governor Ted Kulongoski has named Paulann
Petersen of Portland to a two-year appointment
as poet laureate of Oregon.Petersen will be Oregon’s sixth poet laureate since 1921 when
Edwin Markham first took the post. She succeeds Lawson Fusao Inada of Medford, who held the post
since 2006.
“Paulann Petersen is
the perfect choice to serve as Oregon’s
poet laureate,” said Governor Kulongoski. “Her wonderful poetry and her
commitment to sharing her craft with the people of Oregon through her teaching and service
exemplify the kind person that is ideal to serve in this position.”
Paulann Petersen was
born and raised in Oregon and spent half of
her adult life in Klamath Falls.
She is a widely published poet, with four collections – The Wild Awake (2002), Blood-Silk
(2004), A Bride of Narrow Escape
(2006) and Kindle (2008) – and several
chapbooks to her credit. Petersen has received several awards, including StanfordUniversity’s
Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Awards, and
Literary Art’s Stewart Holbrook Award for Outstanding Contributions to Oregon’s Literary Life.
Petersen is a committed
teacher who has taught high school English and led dozens of workshops schools
libraries, colleges, and writer’s conferences across Oregon. Petersen is an active board member
of the Friends of William Stafford, Oregon’s fourth poet laureate, and organized
the William Stafford Birthday Celebration each January. That celebration has
now expanded to 58 events, 40 of them in Oregon.
The Oregon
Poetry Collection at the Oregon State Library has recently been enhanced by the
acquisition of 159 titles from the estate of the late Vi Gale, well-known
Portland poet and publisher, and from the inventory of Great Northwest Books, a
Portland independent bookstore that closed last year. This substantial
acquisition was made possible by a grant from The Kinsman Foundation.
Among the
newly acquired books are first editions of poetry collections by C. E. S. Wood,
H. L. Davis, Mary Barnard, and other famous past Oregon poets. Many of the
books from Vi Gale’s estate are signed and inscribed with personal messages.
Established
in 2007, the Oregon Poetry Collection is a joint project of the State Library
and the Oregon State Poetry Association. Its purpose is to provide a single,
increasingly comprehensive collection of works by poets resident, born, raised
or educated in Oregon, and to make these works accessible to all Oregonians.
Whenever possible, the collection includes one circulating copy and one
permanent copy accessible at the State Library. Oregon residents can borrow
circulating volumes directly from the State Library, where they are housed in
the Oregon Poet Laureate’s Reading Room, or request them through their local
public library.
Internationally renowned author Roland Smith is the
recipient of the 2010 Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award given annually by the
Children’s Services Division of the Oregon Library Association.
The
award was presented at a special Oregon Library
Association Children’s Services Division meeting on Friday, March 5.
The
Lampman Award is Oregon’s most notable
and prestigious award for library service to children and is given to a
living Oregon author, librarian, or educator who has made a
significant contribution to Oregon
in the fields of children’s literature and library services.
Smith’s books have received
many literary awards and are frequently included on prominent readers’
choice lists. His work has been recognized on state and national levels
for its engaging qualities. In 2009 I.Q.
Book One: Independence Hall won the Oregon Book Award’s Leslie
Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature (http://www.literary-arts.org/index.php?article=883).
I.Q. also won the 2009 National
Parenting Publications Award. His other recognitions include the American
Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant
Readers (http://www.rolandsmith.com/awards.php).
His stories have drawn many readers, reluctant and
otherwise, over the years. His fast-paced adventures swiftly engage middle
readers and keep them reading. His stories such as Sasquatch and The Captain’s
Dog, with an Oregon
connection, entreat young Oregonians to see the world around them with new
eyes.
Roland has visited thousands of schools all over the
world. Interacting with children and teens is an obvious priority with
Roland Smith. His keen interest in what the kids have to say is evident to the
youth, and empowering to them in their writing and reading. His friendly
interactions with youth show his respect for his audience, as do his works of
fiction, picture books and informational titles. Roland Smith is a talented
Oregonian who has kindled a love of reading in many young Oregonians and
inspires young writers to continue working toward their dreams.
The Oregon Cultural Trust seeks nominations for the 2010-2012 Oregon Poet Laureate from Oregonians. Self-nominations will not be accepted. The Oregon poet laureate engages people in literacy, learning, and culture through the art of poetry. The poet laureate commits to providing a minimum of 10, and maximum of 20 public readings across the state, and participating in special cultural projects. To learn more about the duties of the poet laureate and submitting a nomination, please visit the Oregon Poet Laureate’s website at http://www.oregonpoetlaureate.org/.
Nominations may be submitted by:
Deadline: February 15th, 2010
Email: cultural.trust@state.or.us with the subject: Poet Laureate Nomination
Fax: 503.986.0260
Mail: Oregon Cultural Trust, 775 Summer Street NE, Suite 200
Salem, Oregon 97301-1280
When
you find an interesting book on the Oregon Authors site, where do you go to
look for a copy of that book? Most of us are used to searching by Title or
Author or ISBN at individual library catalogs or bookstore websites, but now, thanks
to the clever folks at LibraryThing, you can find out if a book is available on
a shelf near you with a single search.
To
use LibraryThing’s Local Book Search feature, go to http://www.librarything.com/search
and enter a book title. When the book’s page displays, click the Local Book
Search link at the right-hand side for a list of bookstores and libraries in
your geographic area with copies of that book. You’ll see contact information
for the store or library and (whenever possible) you’ll even see the number of
copies available at that location.
Here’s
the Local Book Search page for Virginia Euwer Wolff’s Bat 6:
The Oregon Humanities Center,
with units across campus, presents a year-long series of
interdisciplinary events featuring the history and
future of the book. Join us for lectures by visiting
scholars, art exhibits, workshops, theatre, and
more.
Fall
2009
November
6-21 "Big River,"musical, Robinson
Theatre, Miller Theatre Complex. Tickets: EMU,
(541) 346-4363 or tickets.uoregon.edu/ut
December
1 "Futura," staged reading of a new
play by Jordan Harrison that imagines a
world where all libraries have been digitized and
no print culture remains (or, so the government
thinks....), 7 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room.
Discussion with the playwright to follow. Sponsor:
Theatre Arts. Information: (541)
346-1998 or sarafree@uoregon.edu
December
4 "Open Access to Knowledge and the
Intellectual Properties of Learning,"John Willinsky, Khosla Family
Professor, Stanford University School of Education
and founder of the Public Knowledge Project, 3 p.m.,
Knight Library Browsing Room. Sponsor: Knight
Library, jqj@uoregon.edu
Date
TBA "Strength in What Remains,"Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author, time and location TBA. Sponsor: Clark Honors College, (541)
346-5414
January
21 "The Book-Not Just Another
Gadget,"Paul Courant, University Librarian
and Dean of Libraries at the University of
Michigan, Knight Library Browsing Room. Sponsor:
Knight Library, (541) 346-3056
February
4 "MANUScript-Historical Roots of the Modern
Manuscript Book,"Suzanne Moore, book artist, designer,
and illuminator working on the Saint John's
Bible, 7:30 p.m., location TBA. Sponsor:
OHC O'Fallon Lectureship, (541)
346-3934
February
7 W.S. Merwin,poetry reading, time and
location TBA. Sponsors: Lane Literary Guild and
the Eugene Public Library, (541)
682-5450
February
18-Eugene February
19-Portland Seymour Hersh,Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist and the first Distinguished
Presidential Lecturer. Eugene: 7 p.m., EMU ballroom.
Portland: 7 p.m., UO in Portland, White Stag
Block, 70 N.W. Couch St. Sponsors: The Carlton and
Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment and Clark Honors College, (541)
346-5414
Date
TBA "New Worlds and New Media: Text Image, and
Language Community in Early Print Culture,"Thomas Hahn, Professor of English,
University of Rochester, time and location TBA.
Sponsor: English, (541)
346-3911
April
5 Frances Moore Lappé, author, democracy
advocate and world food and hunger expert, giving
a lecture, 7:30 p.m., EMU Ballroom. Sponsor:
OHC Cressman Lectureship, (541) 346-3934
April
7, 2010 "Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans
Wake," film
screening, 5:30 p.m., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of
Art. Sponsor: Schnitzer Cinema
April
17 "Do (Artist's)
Books Have a Future?" lecture, Johanna Drucker, Professor of
Bibliographical Studies, UCLA, and book artist,
1:30 p.m.; and "Text Shapes and/in Book
Spaces," workshop, 3-5 p.m., Jordan
Schnitzer Museum of Art. Sponsor: Jordan Schniter Museum of Art, (541)
346-3027
May
26-Eugene May
27-Portland Kwame Anthony Appiah,Professor
of Philosophy, Princeton University, and PEN
american Center. giving a lecture. Eugene: 7:30
p.m., location TBA. Portland: 5:30 p.m., UO in
Portland, White Stag Block, 70 N.W. Couch St.
Sponsor: OHC Tzedek Lectureship, (541)
346-3934
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The 23rd annual Oregon Book Awards takes place next Monday, October 26th at 7:30 p.m. at the Gerding Theater in Portland.
This year's ceremony will be hosted by Tom Bissell. Bissell is the author, most recently, of The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune, Salon and the Christian Science Monitor. His other books include Chasing the Sea and God Lives in St. Petersburg. Bissell teaches in the MFA program at Portland State University.
Portland, Oregon –
September 2009:In
celebration of Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anniversary, esteemed literary
journal Poetry Northwest and the Oregon State Library have
released a list of 150 outstanding poetry books – one for each year of our
statehood.These books range in style and subject matter,
and poets both well-beloved and newly emerging are represented, from William
Stafford to Michael McGriff.Each nominee has a connection
to Oregon, whether the poet grew up in
Madras or
writes about the rain.The list will be
published online as a service to
libraries, schools, and citizens.Oregonians can access it
online at Poetry Northwest (www.poetrynw.org).
Poets from the list will honor
the Sesquicentennial with readings at the 2009 Wordstock, the annual literary
festival in Portland, on October 10 and 11, 2009, on the
Mountain Writers Stage.The Mountain Writers Series
sponsors readings, workshops, and seminars with local as well as national and
international writers, and serves as a hub in the Oregon poetry
community.Among the Wordstock readers will be Lex
Runciman, Donna Henderson, Carlos Reyes, Mary Szybist, Matthew Dickman,
Jessica Lamb, and Maxine Scates.A full schedule of
Wordstock readings, including the Poetry 150 List, can be found at www.wordstockfestival.com.
To create
the list, Jim Scheppke, State Librarian, and David Biespiel, editor of
Poetry Northwest, solicited nominations from Oregon authors, as well
as from the general public.The response was
overwhelming.Oregonians wrote in large numbers with lists
of their favorite books, and their nominations created a diverse list of
Oregon’s
best poetry.The State
Library had previously released the Oregon 150 Booklist, which included works
in children’s literature, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as
poetry.Mr. Biespiel recognized that poetry had a
strong community in Oregon and merited its own list, and so
Poetry Northwest spearheaded the collaborative
effort.
While the list cannot possibly include every poetry book published in
or about our state, it provides a foundation for reading and a valuable
resource for Oregonians.Because citizens and readers made
the nominations, the list is unique from scholarly anthologies.Its creators believe that public engagement has shown the importance of
poetry in the lives of citizens.According to Mr. Biespiel,
the community has come together in support of the state and of
literature.The result, he says, is “a spectacular civic
achievement.”
Poetry
Northwest:
4232
SE Hawthorne Boulevard,
Portland97215.
503-236-0615poetrynw.org
The
OregonState Library: 250
Winter St.NE,
Salem97301-3950.503-378-4243oregon.gov/OSL
Jeff Baker, the Oregonian's book editor, covers the Oregon Book Award 2009 Finalist announced this week by Oregon Literary Arts! Check it out! The winners will be announced October 26.
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Robert Briggs, author of Ruined Time: The 1950s and the Beat has begun
a series of productions on "Jazz and Poetry & Other Reasons" -
readings with original music by local jazz musicians, based on his memoir
about the Beats and the 1950s:
Focusing on poetry and the improvisation
of jazz, Briggs has given several performances at IFCC in the NE and
the CoHo Theater in NW Portland.
His next performances are scheduled for September 11, 2009, and every
first Friday at TaborSpace in SE Portland (at SE 55 and
Belmont).
These readings - called "Opus(s)," written and read by Robert Briggs,
accompanied by J. Stuart Fessant on sax, Tim DuRoche on drums and Dan
Davis on bass, offer a unique window in the history of the Beat
movement and the growth of freedom in American culture. Briggs weaves
his own living experiences of those times into an unprecedented
performance of jazz, poetry and insight. He not only explains why, in
2009, the Beat continues to haunt the American mind, but why "jazz is
to music what poetry is to knowing."
Lauren Kessler's presentation
about her book, Stubborn
Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family
at Portland State University, January 15 for
the Oregon Reads 2009 Kick-Off, is now online at the
Oregon Reads 2009 website:
4th International Storyline Conference
“Creating Worlds, Constructing Meaning”
August 7-9, 2009
Pre-Conference August 6
Portland State University, Portland
Oregon, USA
For more information, visit
http://www.ceed.pdx.edu/storyline/
http://www.storyline.org/
Sponsored by Storyline Design, European Association for Educational Design and Portland State University.
The deadline for entries to the 3rd Wordstock Short Fiction Competition is coming soon! The winning
entry earns $1,000 and will be published in the October issue of Portland Monthly magazine.
This year's judge is Barry Lopez. Contest rules and more information are available at
http://tinyurl.com/cr4eyx.
The deadline to apply for Oregon Book Awards is May 29, 2009. To be
eligibile for the 2009 Oregon Book Awards, books must have an original
publication date between April 1, 2008 and March 31, 2009.
Applications and guidleines for
the Oregon Book Awards can be found on our site at:
Out-of-state judges in each category are instructed to choose up to
five finalists in each category,including a winner, using literary
merit as the sole selection criterion. Literary Arts does not
prescreen entries; all eligible entries are sent to the judge. Each
judge has the option of selecting fewer than five finalists and of
making no award. In all cases, judges decisions are final. The
judges' identities remain confidential until the finalists are
announced in the fall.
Also offered are the following nomination-based Special Awards:
The Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award is presented
to an Oregon author in recognition of an enduring, substantial
literary career.
The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award is presented to a person
or organization in recognition of significant contributions that have
enriched Oregon's literary community.
The Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award is presented to a
person or organization in recognition of significant contributions
that have enriched Oregon's young readers.
Nominations for the Special Awards will be reviewed and
recommendations made by the Oregon Book Awards Advisory Committee;
their recommendation is then approved by the Literary Arts Board of
Directors.
Check out the three directories at the Oregon Authors website!
The Oregon Libraries directory is based on the Oregon State Library directory, so it is complete and up-to-date. However, the Oregon Authors Committee is building the Oregon Publishers and the Readers & Writers Group directories from scratch.
Oregon Publishers, please be sure to list your company here. Just make sure to include a website or contact telephone number. This is not a listing for self-publishers; so if you do publish yourself and at least one other author, then you will be considered for this listing.
If you are a Readers & Writers Group, then your group must have 501c3 status to be included in this directory. If you do not have 501c3 status, then the Oregon Authors Committee will consider your submission for inclusion.
Thanks for helping us build the Oregon Authors website!
If you are an Oregon Author, please join this website! We want to feature your work! Here are the steps to building your own webpage:
Click On Oregon Authors in the left-hand column > then "Send Us Your Information."
The Oregon Authors committee needs to verify your Oregon authorship, so please include one title. The committee will then "ok" your page, and you will be sent an email with your exclusive logon and password.
When you want to enter a new book title, follow this path:
Click on Oregon Authors in the left-hand column > then "Sign in."
On your webpage, you can load a photograph of yourself or the cover of your latest book! You can also include your website!
We look forward to seeing your work on the Oregon Authors website!
For instance, we have added some of Geore Venn's books -- see them here. Mr. Venn, a resident of La Grande, has won several awards for his books of poetry and prose.
We have also added Portland resident Sara Ryan's books -- see them here. Her young adult novel, Empress of the World, won the Oregon Book Award.
The new OregonAuthors.org Website officially launched on January 13th, 2009. This new site contains hundreds of local Oregon Author Pages, managed by OLA's Oregon Authors Committee or the authors themselves. Check out these author profiles to find information about recently published books or find out about their next events or works in progress.
For featured Oregon author events at Oregon libraries, you can view the OregonAuthors.org Events Calendar. Find detailed information about upcoming events at Oregon libraries, including directions to event locations using Google Maps.
As part of the Oregon Reads 2009 project, OregonAuthors.org will be supporting community programs for Lauren Kessler's Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. You can participate in active discussions about this book through April 2009. Click on Oregon Reads Book Blog to join the conversation. Virginia Euwer Wolff, author of Bat 6, the Oregon Reads 2009 selection for middle readers, will keep a journal of her thoughts and and experiences as she travels throughout Oregon for her Oregon Reads 2009 book tour. Keep track of public appearances at Oregon libraries for Lauren Kessler, Virginia Euwer Wolff, and Deborah Hopkinson, the author of the picturebook selection for young readers, Apples to Oregon, by checking the Oregon Authors Events Calendar!
OregonAuthors.org also manages directories of local Oregon libraries, publishers and readers/writers groups. If you do not see your group or company represented in these directories, please click through to see how to join the lists.
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