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2019 Poetry Contest

Out of 400+ poems entered in the contest, these are the 2019 winners!
The Source Staff

People entered over 400 poems into the 2019 Source Poetry Contest—a grand representation of the breadth of creativity in our community! We extend our thanks to the first round of judges—students in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at OSU-Cascades, and the second round of judges—local poets including Kit Stafford, Irene […]

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Source Poetry Contest 2019!

Get ready you bards, balladeers, wordsmiths and minstrels: This year there are cash prizes!
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Get ready all you bards, balladeers, minstrels and lovers of the written word… the Source Poetry Contest is upon us! Now’s the time to get your poems ready and to submit them by Nov. 1., 2019 at 4pm, at the Source Weekly, or submitted via email. This year’s contest is back and better than ever—largely […]

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Call for Poetry: Enter the Source’s Poetry Contest!

Get your poems into the Source by Oct. 9
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Enter the Source Weekly Poetry Contest! In partnership with OSU-Cascades Master of Fine Arts program Win prizes! Read with famous poets! Get your very own one-on-one critique with McSweeney’s poet Emily Carr! And have your poetry published in the Source’s Poetry Issue Nov. 2! Rules for Entry: Choose between two categories for submission: The theme […]

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BendFilm Presents “A Place to Stand”

Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca will speak
The Source Staff

As a lead-up to its festival in October of this year, BendFilm is hosting renowned poet Jimmy Santiago Baca for a Thursday night reception and film screening of the award-winning documentary, “A Place to Stand,” based on Baca’s critically-acclaimed memoir of the same name. After the viewing, an interactive Q&A will take place with Jimmy […]

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Art in the Neighborhood

Angela Moore

There are some people who take the time to make sure days are better. Krayna Castelbaum is one of those people. A self-described poetry enthusiast and artist, this local instigator does her share to bring a bit of art to her neighborhood. She takes the time to print and post a poem every month, accessible […]

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Black, White, and Read All Over

T. Geronimo Johnson’s latest takes on race, class, and Berkeley
Christie Hinrichs

The first chapter of Welcome to Braggsville seethes with the barely-restrained energy of a young man standing on the threshold of his own life. D’Aron Davenport rattles off his many nicknames as a way of piecing together a childhood spent as a white, working class know-it-all in the quirky depths of the Georgian South. In […]

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From Athens to Paris to, of course, Bend

Greek-American-Bend Poet Stephanos Papadopoulos kicks off poetry month
Christie Hinrichs

For Greek-American and Bend-based writer Stephanos Papadopoulos, the poems collected in his recent book The Black Sea embody the “inherited memories” of his ancestors. His grandfather, a tobacco merchant who was born in Samsounda, recounted to his grandchildren the trials of the Pontic Greeks of The Black Sea, and the Asia Minor Catastrophe of the […]

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