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Celebrate Oregon Poetry Month with Marys Peak Poets in Philomath, Oct. 3, 2009

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Marys Peak Poets will celebrate Oregon Poetry Month with featured poets from around the Willamette Valley on October 3, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Benton County Historical Society & Museum on Main St.(Hwy 20) in Philomath.

Writing opportunities include workshops at 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. with an open mic from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Paticipants are invited to bring a sack lunch and enjoy coffee/ tea / water generously provided by the Museum. Admission is FREE.

There will be tables to display books and broadsides as well as event notices and other materials to share. In keeping with the exhibition of traditional and contemporary quilts during September and October, the theme of this event will be the Literary and Visual Art of the Hand.  Join Us!

For further details, call 1-541-207-6096 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
 

OSPA's Mission:
To bring together, and nurture, the widest possible community of Oregon poets; to help Oregon poets, young and old, develop their talents and skills; to stimulate, at the grassroots level, a statewide appreciation of poetry; and, to raise public awareness of Oregon poets, past and present.

Newsflash

Reading,Open Mic Vanc 9/16

Do yourself a favor and be at Paper Tiger, 703 Grand Blvd. (between Mill Plain and Evergreen in Vancouver) on September 16th at 7pm . Please bring a poem or 2 to read at our open mic (5 minute max due to the number of readers), and join with some of the best poets in the Northwest declaiming their heartfelt musings. Plus the coffee can't be beat, as well as a host of other hot and cold beverages.
Dan Nelson 360-334-1129 or nelsondaniel59@yahoo.com


For September I am excited as a vulture over carrion (death smells sweeter to them than lilacs to us) to announce the appearance of Dennis McBride. Dennis is a Portland based freelance loiterer, writer, and part time barfly who barely graduated from Lincoln High School after completing his GED with marginal honors. He received an honorable discharge from the US Air Force after 4 years of service, despite being involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital in Texas for 1 month due to a misunderstanding. He later attended Witchita State for 2 consecutive months. He later spent most of his working life as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the medical/industrial complex. His work has appeared in 'The Oregonian', 'The LA Times', 'The Washington Post', 'NBC Radio-Los Angeles', and numerous poetry anthologies and periodicals including the Canadian magazine 'Open Minds' and the California magazine 'Journal'. He has recieved positive notice of his work from Edward Albee and the late, Pulitzer Prize winning author William Styron. He is the author of two works of poetry and satire, "Looking for Peoria" and "Killing the Mockingbird" He was the recipient of the 1996 Andreas Berger Award for Poetry.He is still alive and lusts, lies, cheats and steals-but only when it's the right thing to do.