"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."

Thomas Gray

 OPA Events

  2009 Events

Sept 12 - Dr. David Young
Oct 9   -   OPA Fundraising Event
Oct 31 - Jennifer Bosveld & Andy Roberts
Nov 15 - Dr. Frank Richardson
Dec 12 - Dr. Ann Townsend

 2010 Events

Feb 13- Dr. Kathy Fagan
April 24- Dr.Robert Miltner
June 12- Richard Hague

All OPA events are free and open to all Poets and poetry lovers.

The Ohio Poetry Association is made possible primarily through the volunteer efforts of its members and membership dues.

We would consider it an honor if you would join us in an 80 year old traditon of supporting Poetry in Ohio. The cost is minimal and value is amazing!

Get to know some writers join us now!
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 Featured Chap Book

 

Mark Hersman
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Author Dalene Stull

 

August 26, 2009

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
Walt Whitman

  North Coast Poets Extraordinaire

Upcoming OPA Events:

  2009 Events

Sept 12- Dr. David Young
Oct 31- Jennifer Bosveld
Nov 15- Dr. Frank Richardson
Dec 11- Dr. Ann Townsend

 2010 Events

Feb 13- Dr. Kathy Fagan
April 24- Dr.Robert Miltner
June 12- Richard Hague

All OPA events are free and open to all Poets and poetry lovers.

The Ohio Poetry Association is made possible primarily through the voluteer efforts of its members and membership dues.

We would consider it an honor if you would join us in an 80 year old traditon of supporting Poetry in Ohio. The cost is minmal and value is amazing!

Please join us now.
More information Here

 Featured Chap Book

Gina Tabasso
Get the full story on Gina Here

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Other OPA Member Books Here

 

Tonight Poetry and Music at Tim Hortons Third Thursday, July 16th 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM 131 Chestnut Street Coshocton, Ohio Featured Poets: David Francis Smith is a Columbus-based poet with roots in southwestern Ohio and the “agricultural aristocracy” of the New Deal family farm. Current projects include coffee house and bookstore readings and a work on a teaching book of poetics, Commonplace Things About Poems Jonathan Carlisle (Coshocton) will be reading from his father's poetry. Thomas John Carlisle published over 1200 poems in newspapers and journals like The New York Times, Christian Century, Yankee, and Good Housekeeping and wrote twelve books of poetry. A special feature will be his poetry related to Emily Dickinson. Rev. Carlisle served three Presbyterian congregations in NY State. Jonathan Carlisle is pastor of The Presbyterian Church of Coshocton.   Write On Writers - Click Here!

The Summer is siiizzzlln ! July 18 at 6:00 pm Goodale Park Columbus, OH. Fred Kirchner & Nathan Moore July 19 at 12:00 pm. OPA Annual Picnic Whetstone Park - Nathan Moore, Bob Pringle, M.L.Schurch,Craug McVay,Patricia Black, & Fred Kirchner. July 19 2:30 pm. Lincoln Theater "She Speak" Rachel McKibbens, Jessica Care Moore, Gina Loring, Rose Smith, and Chauncey Beaty. July 19 5:00 pm Westminster Thurber Columbus, OH - Columnist Mike Harden is Writers Ink guest speaker. July 21 at 7:00 pm Bela Dubby - Lakewood,OH - Lix and Kix features Philip Metres,Terry Provost, Kent Brown July 24 at 7:00 pm. Areopagitica Books Elizabeth Ann James will present poems independece. July 28 at 6:30 pm. SIPS - Mt Vernon OH - Mark Hersman Presents Andy Roberts, Susann Moeller, and Beverly Zeimer More on Lix and Kix Here!

OPA Picnic Sunday! July 19 -12 pm - Whetsone Park - Columbus, OH Ohio Poetry Association Annual Picnic Picnic Flyer Here. SUMMER WORKSHOPS July 11-17, 2009 Ends Friday! (Application & Fee) The 24th Annual Antioch Writers' Workshop Keynote Speaker Zakes Mda & faculty of John Drury, Joyce Dyer, Mary Grimm,Rebecca McClanahan,Randy McNutt,Zakes Mda,Nahid Rachlin & Crystal Wilkinson ! July 27 - 7:00 pm - Ashland University Author Scott Russell Sanders Professor Sanders was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1945. His father came from a family of cotton farmers in Mississippi, his mother from an immigrant doctor’s family in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Tennessee and his school years in Ohio. July 28 at 7:00 pm. Readings by Angie Estes & Robert Root Ms Estes the author of four books, most recently Tryst (2009) and Chez Nous (2005), both from Oberlin College Press. Her second book, Voice-Over (Oberlin College Press, 2002), won the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize and was also awarded the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Uses of Passion (1995), was the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize. Robert Root taught at Central Michigan University and at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver. His article “Collage, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment,” from The Fourth Genre, is often assigned in creative nonfiction courses across the country. An essay on writing and teaching, “A Double Life,” published in Writing on the Edge, won the 2007 Donald Murray Award for Best Essay on Writing and/or Teaching. July 29 - 7:00 pm Ashland UniversityReading by Patricia Hampl - Particia is a poet, creative nonfiction. She first won recognition for A Romantic Education, her memoir about her Czech heritage, which was awarded a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship in 1981. This book and subsequent works established her as an influential figure in the rise of autobiographical writing in the past 25 years. July 26-August 7 FREE! The MFA at Ashland University Presents Summer Residency Readings and Craft Seminars BOOKS PRE-PUBLICATION OFFER FROM PUDDING HOUSE SPRINGSTEEN ANTHOLOGY Love Poems & Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS * OPA Summer Poetry Contest - Sun and Moon - closes July 19th. * W.A.R.M. call for Poetry The Womens Art Recognition Movement, is grassroots organization of international women artists founded in 1999 by Dr Molly Merryman (who at the time was the Director for Kent State's Women's Resource Center) and Cheryl Townsend. This is a great organization and one more reason to be Ohio Proud! If you have not already checked out their web site it's a great place to belong. Oh...they let guys in too so don't be shy! W.A.R.M OTHER CALLS TUPELO PRESS: Open Submissions Month for Poetry Throughout July, Tupelo Press will hold open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages). Aware of the current economy, we have reduced our reading fee from $35 to $25. We also now accept electronic submissions, which save on photocopying and postage, via a special transfer site. This ensures correct formatting and provides automatic receipts and a log-in option to check the status of your manuscript. We will continue to accept submissions by postal mail as well. Historically Tupelo Press has granted contracts each year to three to five poetry books submitted in July, for example Ted Deppe's ORPHEUS ON THE RED LINE, Karen An-hwei Lee's ARDOR, Mark Halliday's KEEP THIS FOREVER, Ellen Doré Watson's THIS SHARPENING, and Michael Chitwood's SPILL. Tupelo Press editors will read all manuscripts. In addition to July's open submissions for poetry, fiction and nonfiction manuscripts are welcome year-round. Click here and scroll down to view the complete Submissions Guidelines for fiction and nonfiction. See the Submissions tab on their website for complete guidelines: www.tupelopress.org   * More Event Dates & Information Here

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A great new flyer designed by The OPA Team! and dates set through 2010 !

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