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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#000000>In honor of
National Poetry Month, the State Library and Oregon State Poetry Association
(OSPA) are pleased to announce the Oregon Poetry Collection is expanding!
Below is a copy of the press release with details about the Oregon Poetry
Collection and the new acquisitions that are now available for you and your
patrons to check out via interlibrary loan.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#000000>In
addition, the State Library and OSPA were very fortunate to find a talented
local artist, Emily Germond, to volunteer to design two posters for you to
download and print to promote Oregon Poetry in your library or school. One
poster has an excerpt from a poem by well-kno<SPAN
class=404440022-05042010>wn</SPAN> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></st1:place> poet William Stafford.
This poster has a very classic look and feel. The second
poster has an excerpt from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State> poet Garrett Hongo. This
poster is a little edgier, and may appeal especially to teens and college
students. Both posters are available for you to download and print in
color<SPAN class=404440022-05042010> or</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">
</SPAN>black & white, and standard printer paper size<SPAN
class=404440022-05042010> (8.5 x 11 in.)</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#000000><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy"> </SPAN>or poster size (22 x<SPAN
class=404440022-05042010> 28</SPAN> in.).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#000000>Please go
to the Oregon Poetry Collection webpage to download and print your <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State> poetry
posters<SPAN class=404440022-05042010>: <A
href="http://tiny.cc/ouu9r">http://tiny.cc/ouu9r</A></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Enjoy,<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT
color=#000000>Katie<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center>Katie Anderson, Library Development Services</DIV>
<DIV align=center>* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book
Coordinator *</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301</DIV>
<DIV align=center><A
href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</A>,
503-378-2528</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Palatino><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">250 Winter <U2:PLACE
u3:st="on"><U2:CITY u3:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">St.</U2:CITY></st1:City> <U2:STATE u3:st="on"><st1:State
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<P class=MsoNormal><U2:PLACE u3:st="on"><U2:CITY u3:st="on"><st1:place
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Salem</SPAN></FONT></st1:City><FONT
face=Palatino><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"></U2:CITY>, <U2:STATE
u3:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">OR</U2:STATE></st1:State> <U2:POSTALCODE
u3:st="on"><st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">97301-3950</U2:POSTALCODE></st1:PostalCode></SPAN></FONT></st1:place></U2:PLACE><FONT
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">PRESS
RELEASE<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">For
Release: April 5, 2010</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: -0.6in; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.6in"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Contact: <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Katie Anderson</st1:PersonName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><U2:PLACE u3:st="on"><U2:PLACENAME
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:PlaceName></U2:PLACENAME> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on"><U2:PLACETYPE
u3:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></U2:PLACETYPE></U2:PLACE> for the
Book, 503.378.2528 or <A href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us"><FONT
color=purple><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">katie.anderson@state.or.us</SPAN></FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" class=MsoNormal><U2:STATE u3:st="on"><U2:PLACE
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Oregon</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:State></U2:PLACE></U2:STATE><FONT
size=4><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> Poetry
Collection Expands<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" class=MsoNormal><U><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"> </SPAN></o:p></SPAN></FONT></U></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
Oregon Poetry Collection at the Oregon State Library has recently been enhanced
by the acquisition of 159 titles from the estate of the late Vi Gale, well-known
<st1:City w:st="on"><U2:CITY u3:st="on">Portland</st1:City></U2:CITY> poet and
publisher, and from the inventory of Great Northwest Books, a <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:PLACE u3:st="on"><U2:CITY
u3:st="on">Portland</st1:place></st1:City></U2:CITY></U2:PLACE> independent
bookstore that closed last year. This substantial acquisition was made possible
by a grant from The Kinsman Foundation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Among
the newly acquired books are first editions of poetry collections by C. E. S.
Wood, H. L. Davis, Mary Barnard, and other famous past <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:STATE u3:st="on"><U2:PLACE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State></U2:PLACE></U2:STATE> poets. Many of
the books from Vi Gale’s estate are signed and inscribed with personal
messages.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">During
National Poetry Month, the works in the OPC will be highlighted by a lecture
titled “Reading the Rain: 150 Years of Oregon Poetry,” to be given by <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:PLACE u3:st="on"><U2:CITY
u3:st="on">Eugene</st1:place></st1:City></U2:CITY></U2:PLACE> poet, teacher, and
editor John Witte. The lecture is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, April
7. Admission is free, and attendees are welcome to bring lunch. Box lunches will
also be available for purchase on site. In his lecture, Witte will trace the
evolution of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:STATE
u3:st="on"><U2:PLACE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State></U2:PLACE></U2:STATE>’s poetry from
pioneer letters and diaries and the journals of early explorers to the emergence
in the 1940s of the state’s first great poems. He will explore the question of
whether <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:STATE u3:st="on"><U2:PLACE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State></U2:PLACE></U2:STATE>’s unique
landscape and history have left a distinctive imprint on its
poetry.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Established in 2007, the Oregon
Poetry Collection is a joint project of the State Library and the Oregon State
Poetry Association. Its purpose is to provide a single, increasingly
comprehensive collection of works by poets resident, born, raised or educated in
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:PLACE u3:st="on"><U2:STATE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State></U2:STATE></U2:PLACE>, and to make
these works accessible to all Oregonians. Whenever possible, the collection
includes one circulating copy and one permanent copy accessible at the State
Library. <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:STATE
u3:st="on"><U2:PLACE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State></U2:PLACE></U2:STATE> residents can
borrow circulating volumes directly from the State Library, where they are
housed in the Oregon Poet Laureate’s Reading Room, or request them through their
local public library<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The idea
for such a collection arose in conversations among Lawson Fusao Inada, who has
recently ended his tenure as Oregon Poet Laureate, State Library Director Jim
Scheppke, and OSPA past President <st1:PersonName w:st="on">David
Hedges</st1:PersonName>. The idea was developed in a Memorandum of Understanding
between OSL and OSPA, and the collection opened to the public in April 2008. Its
development has been overseen by a joint committee of OSL staff and OSPA
volunteers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Except
for the recent grant-funded purchase, all the books in the OPC—now over 2,000
items, about 1,150 separate titles—have been donated. The first acquisitions
were from private collections that OSPA members had donated to the Association
with the intent that they would be made accessible to others. <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">David Hedges</st1:PersonName> culled from them books that met the
criteria established for the OPC. Another OSPA past president, Linda Varsell
Smith, also donated a substantial number of works by <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:STATE u3:st="on"><U2:PLACE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State></U2:PLACE></U2:STATE> poets from her
private library.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">OSPA
then issued a call to poets in its membership to donate their own books and also
sought donations from <st1:State w:st="on"><U2:STATE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></U2:STATE> publishers of <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:STATE u3:st="on"><U2:PLACE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State></U2:PLACE></U2:STATE> poetry. This
elicited many donations of one or a few titles. Copies in excess of two were
offered by OSL to the state’s public libraries, which proved eager to have
them.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Once the
collection was established with these donations of private collections and
single titles, OSL added to it books already in its possession that met its
criteria, including past winners of the Oregon Book Award in poetry, which had
been donated to the Library by Literary Arts.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
catalog of the OPC can be accessed online at the OSL website,
<http://www.oregon.gov/OSL>. <st1:State w:st="on"><U2:STATE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></U2:STATE> poets and publishers of <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><U2:STATE u3:st="on"><U2:PLACE
u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State></U2:PLACE></U2:STATE> poetry with
books not presently included in the Collection are encouraged to donate two
copies of each title, one for circulation and one for permanent preservation.
Copies should be addressed to Oregon State Library, Attn: Oregon Poetry
Collection, 250 Winter St. NE, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><U2:PLACE u3:st="on"><U2:CITY u3:st="on">Salem</st1:City></U2:CITY>,
<st1:State w:st="on"><U2:STATE u3:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></U2:STATE>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on"><U2:POSTALCODE
u3:st="on">97301-3950</st1:PostalCode></st1:place></U2:POSTALCODE></U2:PLACE>.
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