Benjamin Brown Books
1315 Adams Ave.
Ste. C
La Grande, OR
(541) 663-0878

Great Northwest Bookstore
1234 S.W. Stark St.
Portland, OR

Looking Glass Bookstore
SE 13th
Portland, OR

Powell's
several locations in Portland, OR

Lane Literary Guild
The Lane Literary Guild has supported the literary arts since 1984. The Guild sponsors the Windfall Reading Series and other local literary events, offers workshops/critique groups to members, and publishes the Writer's Access newsletter, which features articles on upcoming Windfall Series readers, a calendar of local literary events, member news, and notices of regional workshops and contests.

Literary Arts (Portland)
Literary Arts sponsors five major programs: Portland Arts & Lectures, which presents an annual lecture series featuring some of the world's most highly acclaimed poets, novelists, playwrights, and journalists. Literary Arts also produces Poetry Downtown, an annual spring series featuring contemporary poets reading in an intimate setting; featured authors have included Mark Strand, Kevin Young, Charles Simic and Adrienne Rich. Many poems by Oregon writers are featured on Portland’s buses and light rail trains through the Poetry in Motion® project, a collaboration with the Poetry Society of America. Oregon Literary Fellowships provide fiscal support to emerging writers and small independent publishers throughout the state of Oregon. The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature. Writers in the Schools (WITS) is a comprehensive writing program that places professional writers in high school classrooms to teach creative writing. For more information, contact Barbara Verchot, barbara@literary-arts.org, Marketing & Events Manager.

Oregon State Poetry Association
The Oregon State Poetry Association offers contests for members, reading and critique groups, a quarterly newsletter, spring and fall conferences, and an informational website for Oregon poets.

Writers on the Edge
Writers on the Edge presents The Nye Beach Writers' Series, held year-round, the third Saturday of each month, at which two notable authors present their work, followed by open mike readings; Writers On The Edge Workshops; and Youth Summer Poetry Writing & Performance Workshops, spanning four weeks in July and culminating in both a printed anthology of student work and a "Young Voices On The Edge"

1. Langston Hughes
2. Maya Angelou
3. Robert Frost
4. Shel Silverstein
5. Emily Dickinson
6. Walt Whitman
7. E. E. Cummings
8. Billy Collins
9. William Stafford
10. William Carlos Williams
11. Mary Oliver
12. Pablo Neruda
13. Anne Sexton
14. Sylvia Plath
15. Naomi Shihab Nye

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Oregon Winter
by Jeanne Mc Gahey
The rain begins. This is no summer rain...

Calyx
CALYX Journal was established in 1976 by four women with a vision of a high-quality forum for art and literature. A collective of editors read and select work from unsolicited manuscripts and make decisions based on artistic excellence, with a strong commitment to emerging writers and to representing the voices of all women. In 1986, CALYX began to publish books and has since published collections of poetry, short fiction, novels, creative nonfiction, and anthologies.

Northwest Review
Northwest Review is the University of Oregon's tri-annual journal of literature, the arts and culture. It is among the nation's oldest and most esteemed literary reviews, and the only such publication in the Oregon State System of Higher Education.

Poetry Northwest
Founded as a poetry-only journal in 1959, Poetry Northwest originally featured Carolyn Kizer, Richard Hugo, and Nelson Bentley as co-editors. There mission is best summed up by Kizer's vision for the publication; that it should "continue to encourage the young and the inexperienced, the neglected mature, and the rough major talents and the fragile minor ones.".

Tin House
Named after an old Victorian house in Portland, this quarterly presents themed issues featuring poetry, short fiction, interviews, reviews, a "Lost & Found" section that recovers forgotten titles, and recipes.

Mountain Writers Series
MWS offers midday readings, community residencies, the MWS Youth Program, Northwest Regional Residencies, workshops, and other special events. Mountain Writers Center, the permanent facility of Mountain Writers Series, is located in Southeast Portland.

Poet Speak
PoetSpeak is a forum for Northwest poets, producing two public performances, two live performance-based anthologies each year, The Best of PoetSpeak every second year, a Planet Earth Anthology, chapbooks with a featured poet, and illustrated poetry columns in newspapers and magazines.

Silverton Poetry Festival
For a week in April, the Silverton Poetry Festival will host a series of workshops and readings in the community as well as nationally recognized and award-winning poets, writers and singer-songwriters. These offerings are designed for a broad age group, ranging from adult to children, young adults and teens.

The Attic Writers Workshop
The Attic in Portland, Oregon, is a literary studio offering writing workshops to the community in fiction, memoir, playwrighting, poetry, and other creative writing classes.

Oregon State University
OSU's two-year MFA program combines intensive writing workshops with study in craft, literature and culture, rhetoric and composition. Students have opportunities to work with undergraduates on composition and creative writing.

Oregon Writers Colony
OWC is a nonprofit organization representing and nurturing professional and novice writers. They hold conferences, manage an informational website, and maintain Colonyhouse, a writer's haven overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

University of Oregon
One of the longest standing MFA programs in the United States, emphasizing performance and productivity through a primary commitment to the workshop. Approximately three quarters of the degree credits are directly devoted to creative production, with the remainder made up of literature seminars.