Tides of Change is celebrating 40 years of service to survivors of domestic and sexual violence in Tillamook County. In April 2023 we will celebrate survivors and their incredible resiliency with a storytelling event. True stories have the power to heal by helping survivors to stand in their own power and shine a light on injustice. True stories connect people…
Category: Poetry
POEM: I Wait
by Neal Lemery 8/13/22 Possibilities arise in this space of time and place unfilled, unscheduled. I breathe with no expectation of production, accomplishment, success. No score keeping, no quotas no reports to make at the end of the day, just being unaccountable, idle by someone else’s rules, practicing uneasy patience. Ideas swirl, circling to land take root, grow into something…
POETRY: Hymn For The Hurting by Amanda Gorman
Everything hurts, Our hearts shadowed and strange, Minds made muddied and mute. We carry tragedy, terrifying and true. And yet none of it is new; We knew it as home, As horror, As heritage. Even our children Cannot be children, Cannot be. Everything hurts. It’s a hard time to be alive, And even harder to stay that way. We’re burdened…
Oregon Poet Laureates Bring Poetry Home – Dial-A-Poem Celebrates National Poetry Month
It’s National Poetry Month, and Oregon’s Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani is bringing to you – just a phone call away. Throughout the month of April call 503.928.7008 to hear poems from Oregon Poet Laureates, via Oregon’s Daily Tele-Poems Telephone Line! There will be poems from past Poet Laureates Paulann Petersen, Lizzybeth Woody, and Kim Stafford. And for the support of…
POEM: FICKLE FEBRUARY
– Virginia Carrell Prowell (02/24/2022) On Groundhogs Day, you made a promise of nice weather. The sun shined brightly and warmed the ground. Buds on bushes and trees could be found. Green shoots of flowers were all around. Yellow buds burst into bloom of the beautiful daffodils. A trip on the highway gives us a shocking view; a blanket of…
POETRY: Amanda Gorman – New Day’s Lyric
Poet Amanda Gorman released “New Day’s Lyric” on InstaGram two days ago and will raise money for humanitarian aid organization the International Rescue Committee, to help aid those affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Instagram parent company Meta is also donating $50,000 to the organization. You can read Gorman’s latest poem in full below and see the InstaGram video: New…
The Hoffman Center for the Arts sponsors the Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize in January 2022
Poets from the North Oregon coast are invited to compete in the Hoffman Center’s annual poetry contest, the Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize. The winning poet will receive a $100 cash prize and see their work published on the Hoffman Center website and newsletter in April. Second and Third place poets will also be recognized. Poets may submit up to three…
POEM: Halloween Portrait
She dons her cape, grabs her hat on the way, Slips on her pointed boots and jumps on her broom. Up, up and away she streaks through the sky, She has a rendezvous with the Harvest Moon! Below the villages and town are all aglow Thousands of Jack-o-lanterns, beacon the flow Costumed toddlers and teenagers are on the run Racing…
POETRY: CLOUDS
— Virginia Carrell Prowell (10/16/21) On a partly cloudy day My mind drifts to the sky Images of countless figures Begin to appear before my eyes. A pack of dogs chasing a rabbit Too bad they can’t catch it, He hopped behind a big black cloud, Never again to be found. A school of fish goes swimming by, then they’re…
Estuary Moment
—Poem & Photos by Neal Lemery (9/16/2021) I slip through the veil of time into primordial fog, forming then disappearing, forming again over estuary mud, all in scattered sunlight in misty motion. The lowest of the tide about to turn, solitary heron keeping watch, over silvered pilings from before my time, in perfect stillness, outside of mankind’s world, vigilant, patient….
