Rockaway Writers Rendezvous – EST. 2023 WHAT/WHERE/WHY The Rockaway Roastery, at 2nd & Miller in Rockaway Beach) in conjunction with local published authors, are creating an annual educational fun event around all…
Category: Poetry
POETRY: Mother Nature
EDITOR’S NOTE: If you are a regular Pioneer reader, you’ll likely remember our prolific Pioneer poet at 98 years young, Virginia Carrell Prowell. For decades she wrote a poem a month (or…
APRIL IS POETRY APPRECIATION MONTH: Hymn For The Hurting by Amanda Gorman
EDITOR’S NOTE: Every day is poetry appreciation … the Pioneer welcomes poetry submissions for ANY month, and would like to publish more poetry. Know a poet? Are you a poet? Send us…
TIDES OF CHANGE – 40 Years of Service to Survivors: Call for True Stories from Domestic & Sexual Violence Survivors
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…
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…
