EDITOR’S NOTE: It was an event-filled weekend – here’s video from Clovers Day and the Garibaldi Porch Parade by Don Backman, accompanied by a poem from our favorite Pioneer poet, Virginia Carrell…
Category: Poetry
Fireweed: Poetry of Oregon Returns – Taking Submissions through June 1st
OIOpublisher One of Oregon’s longest running poetry journals is back and online. Fireweed: Poetry of Oregon has been highlighting the best of Oregon poetry for decades. The journal was dissolved for a…
POEM: MOTHERHOOD
By Virginia Carrell Prowell The moment a child is born, A woman begins a role in a production called Motherhood. The care she gives her baby is a God-given gift of tenderness….
POETRY: May Day
A Poem By Virginia Carrell Prowell (4/30/2021) Photos by Don Backman There was a time, a long time ago, When young children danced around the May Pole. Holding long colorful ribbons attached…
POETRY: RESTORATION
– Virginia Carrell Prowell (3-30-2021) (PHOTOS BY Don Backman) The signs of Winter are disappearing and being replaced with a renewed application. Barren branches of the Alder and Oak, the Red Maple,…
POEM: THE SILENT TRUMPETERS
My sweet neighbor, Rosy Pyle brought me a beautiful vase full of lovely daffodils on my birthday. For some unknown reason this little poem began forming in my noggin in the middle…
POETRY: BIRTHDAYS, YEAR BY YEAR
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Pioneer’s poet that is truly a pioneer … Virginia graces us with a poem a month (or more) when the muse or subject matter presents itself. Join us in…
The Coastal Buzz: Episode #3 – Exploring the Coast – Fisher Poets & DeGarde Brewing
The Coastal Buzz with Walter Mills is back – heading north to Astoria with a feature about Fisher Poets, happening this weekend virtually. Then Mills heads south to Tillamook for a taste…
Ode to Tessa the chocolate Princessa
EDITOR’S NOTE: A beautiful, heartfelt remembrance for a sweet chocolate lab Tessa by the Pioneers astrology and cooking writer Dana Zia. It brings tears to my eyes every time I read it….
INAUGURATION DAY: Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman – “The Hill We Climb”
EDITOR’S NOTE: There were many highlights of today’s Inauguration of Joseph Biden as the 46th President of the United States, and Vice President Kamala Harris, and many firsts … then a 22-year-old…