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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….