Featured Poet

Leo Decker

Leo Decker is a kindergarten student in Ashland. In 2010, he won a prize for his poem "Beautiful Sky" in the Oregon State Poetry Association's Student Contest. While he enjoys poetry, he devotes most of his time to Legos and playing four-square.

poems by Leo Decker

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Recognizing the need for poetry in our lives, the Oregon Poetic Voices Project (OPV) is a comprehensive digital archive of poetry readings that will complement existing print collections of poetry across the state.

"We each carry lines of poetry with us. Words that others have written float back to us and stay with us, indelibly. We clutch these "life lines" like totems, repeat them as mantras, and summon them for comfort and laughter."

-Academy of American Poets