Oregon Poetry Association (OPA) recently released /pãn| dé| mïk/ 2020: An Anthology of Pandemic Poems, a timely anthology edited and designed by OPA Board Member Dale Champlin. This attractive volume,…
Beginning with the 4000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, preserved on clay tablets in cuneiform script, and concluding with a chapter on “Poets Who Cross Boundaries,” which includes Heaney, Walcott, Angelou, Oliver…
Today, words are cheap. Words have lost their power when nuance is constantly sacrificed for expediency in text messages and tweets, and vulgarity is rampant. Perhaps it’s time to reevaluate…