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Updated June 26, 2009
- The May/June 2009 Writer’s Access is now online
- E-mails Bounced Back from LLG Website?
It’s Time for our Annual Potluck Picnic
September 26, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Lamb Cottage in beautiful Skinner Butte Park
All are welcome, Guild members, friends, in-laws, out-laws, shirttail cousins. Please come and bring a dish or beverage to share (no alcohol, please) and some of your most interesting writing for the open mic. Bring someone who’s never been to our picnic before. We have great food and the weather always cooperates!
Memorial Gift in Honor of Lisa Rosen Creates Scholarships for LLG Workshops!
Deanna Ludwin, who met Lisa at Colorado State 25 years ago, has given a gift of $200 to sponsor workshop scholarships in her honor. The scholarships are available to women poets who want to attend one of the Guild's one-day craft workshops. Lisa's love of poetry lives on — thank you Deanna, for your generous gift! If you would like to apply for a workshop, please get in touch with Toni Van Deusen at tonipoet@gmail.com.
Help Wanted
Guild member Robert Swanson is looking for someone willing to work with him to help get his poems published. He’s had poems in The Poem, The Southern Humanities Review, and Blue Unicorn and has written 17 books! For contact information, please see the May/June 2009 Writer’s Access.
Guild Members In the News
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Colette Jonopulos has a poem appearing in the June issue of Alimentum: The Journal of Food. Her chapbook Enough of Daylight is being published by Uttered Chaos Press.
Sharon Munson took 2nd place in the Traditional Verse category of OSPA spring contest with Propriety, and will have a poem in the September issue of Goose River Press.
The spring issue of Windfall will publish a poem by Bonnita Stahlberg.
Terry Brix’s poem “What Day?” will appear in the March issue of Rattlesnake Review, and “So Many Things Forgotten” will be published in Lucid Rhythms.
Alan Contreras’s memoir Afield: Forty Years of Birding the American West, was published by Oregon State University Press in March. His new Handbook of Oregon Birds, co-edited with Hendrik Herlyn of Corvallis, will appear from OSU Press in August. Both are illustrated by Ramiel Papish of Newport.
Howard W. Robertson’s fourth book of poems, The Gaian Odes, won the Sinclair Poetry Prize and will be published by Evening Street Press. His long poem, “She’s dangerous in the dark” has been published in Literal Latte: the Anthology, a selection of the magazine’s best poems over the past fifteen years.
Two poems by Laura LeHew were accepted by CounterExample Poetics for their June/July issue.
Sandy Jensen took two first prizes in the Oregon State Poetry Association Spring 2009 Poetry contest, for her poems “Harney County Still Life” and “Shortcut: Bear Camp Road”.
Eleanor Berry won 4th place in the Poets Choice category with her poem Bright Fingers. Charles Theilman, Terry Brix, Colette Tenant, and Michele Graf each won Honorable Mentions.
Quinton Hallett has a poem in the April issue of ‘Four and Twenty’ online and forthcoming, one in ‘Thresholds’.
Charles F. Thielman has had nine poems accepted recently, by journals such as Heart Lodge, Modoc Forum, Seven Circle Press, Oracle, Uphook, and Poetry Kanto.
Nancy Carol Moody’s new book of poems, Photograph With Girls, will be out this fall from Traprock Books. Nancy is also featured in the upcoming issue of Tiger’s Eye.
Ralph Salisbury's new book, The Indian Who Bombed Berlin, has been published, and his poem "After Whitman's 'There Was a Child Went Forth'" was selected by Verse Daily.
E-mails Bounced Back from LLG Website?
Some of you have recently mentioned that e-mails sent to The Writer’s Access via the LLG website have bounced back. And yet, sometimes the messages go through.
Mike Lee, our webmaster, explains this has to do with the server we’re using not having a spam filter. We recognize this can be frustrating, but the alternative is a deluge of spam that we’d rather not have to deal with. If this happens to you, please use one of the selections listed on our contact page and we’ll be sure to forward your message to the appropriate person.