Chapters
EUGENE-SPRINGFIELD
The chapter head is Cathy McGuire. No meetings, but two events: a biannual reading series and an outreach to high school poets. Contact for OPA business: cathy (at) cathymcguire.com
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MARYS PEAK POETS
The Marys Peak Poets meet on the last Sunday of the month at 7 at 471 NW Hemlock Ave, Corvallis, Everyone is welcome and you can bring a poem you want critiqued (please bring 10 copies). Since the meeting falls on Easter in April, some poets might not be able to come this month.
For directions call: 541-753-3335 or to contact the Mary's Peak Unit by e-mail, use the OPA Contact form and choose the Category 'Unit: Mary's Peak'.
The chapter head is Linda Varsell Smith.
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PORTLAND
A reading series on the third Tuesday of every month at In Other Words feminist bookstore and community center. The unit heads are Constance Hall and Steve Williams. To contact the Portland Unit by e-mail, use the OPA Contact form and choose the Category 'Unit: Portland'.
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ROGUE VALLEY
Our chapter meets at the Medford Library on the second Saturday of each month (except December, when we party at 1010 S. Oakdale Avenue in Medford). We also have a crit group that meets on the third Saturday. (Participation in this group group is currently limited to the present ten members.)
To contact the Rogue Valley Unit by e-mail, use the OPA Contact form and choose the Category 'Unit: Rogue Valley'.
Contact: Dee Chadwell.
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Mid-Valley Poetry Society (Salem-area OPA unit)
The MVPS meets monthly on second Saturdays in the Oregon State Library. The meetings are open to anyone in the greater Salem area with an interest in poetry. Those attending are invited to bring one or two poems of their own or by others to share with the group. Responses to these informal readings are consistently thoughtful and supportive.
At the January 2013 meeting, Christopher Wicks, one of the unit’s members, gave a presentation on his process of writing sonnets. More such presentations by unit members on their processes of writing particular kinds of poems are tentatively planned for future meetings.
The “Poetry Corner,” the MVPS’s monthly column in the Salem Statesman Journal, has now appeared for a full year. Each column focuses on a different Oregon poet whose work is represented in the Oregon Poetry Collection at the State Library, which the columns are intended to highlight.
A "Poetry in Performance" event, with featured poet A. Molotkov and an open mic, has been scheduled for Tuesday evening, March 5, 2013, at the IKE Box, a downtown Salem coffeehouse.
To contact the Mid-Valley Unit by e-mail, use the OPA Contact form and choose the Category 'Unit: Salem'.
Contact: Eleanor Berry
