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Umpqua Valley Poets look to revive poetry community forums

For prose lovers hesitant to embrace another form of writing KatSue Grant of Green has a secret. “Poetry is just playing with words,” she says. Grant, 64, is spearheading the revitalization of the Umpqua Valley Poets, hoping to unite Douglas County poets willing to provide inspiration for and critique each other’s work. She said she’d love to see membership burgeon once the word is out. As the Douglas County branch of the Oregon Poetry Association, Umpqua Valley Poets began meeting in 2006. Its members hosted a poetry conference in Roseburg in 2008 that was a great success, Grant said. The …

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