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Pat's poems are reflective portraits of people and events. They hold the aroma of hope and the colors of life. Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; a few are to be savored slowly and repeatedly. Pat hopes you experience the cadance of her words in the deepest part of you where your creativlty lies.
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Background
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Playing in my mind was a successful strategy for me during my Mommy years. I was influenced and encouraged by family, friends and a wide variety of talented people at home and abroad.
Now, in my second adulthood, and addicted to the stimulation of daily life, I continue to create word images that hopefully impart hard-earned wisdom and inspire others to release their own creativity.
My award-winning essays, book reviews, columns, and travel and humor articles have appeared in newspapers, literary magazines, and in New Works Review and Passport Journals online.
My poetry has been published in A Time to be Free, passager - A Journal of Remembrance and Discovery, Thinking Aloud/Allowed, A Trail of Thoughts, and In the Playhouse of My Mind Volume I, Scattered Rainbows Volume II, and Life on a Seesaw Volume III of the Circle of Life Trilogy with artist Carol L. Funke.
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Birth Place
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Catasauqua, PA USA
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Accomplishments
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I hold degrees in music, English Literature, Elementary Education and Administration from West Chester and Scranton Universities in Pennsylvania.
I am president of the Spring River Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, and current Arkansas' State President of the NLAPW; member of International Womens Writers Guild, Poets Roundtable of Arkansas, National Federation of American Poets, Twin Lakes Writers,Ozark Writers League, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Poetry Society of Tennessee, and Cherokee Village Writers Guild
Recent Awards:Award of Excellence,Cape Cod Branch of the National League of American Pen Women and publication of winning Haiku in Pen Woman Magazine; Family Matters Prose Award and Children's Story Award, Harding University, White County Creative Writers; Grand Conference Award II and Swann Kohler Award (both prose), On the Spot Poetry Award, Arkansas Writers' Conference; The Sound of Muses Anthology, Hemmingway-Pfeiffer Writers' Retreat, Arkansas State University;
Environmental and Poetry Awards, Grandmother Earth National Contest; 3 HM Gene Andereck Award, Ozark Writers League; Tyler Memorial; Tom McDaniel; Hoy Lampley; Nina Hepburn, NLAPW; Best Poem of the Festival, PoetrySociety of Tennessee; Anita Boggs Memorial Award,2010 Biennial of NLAPW; Director's Award,Oral Poetry Competition;Character Description, Rhymed Verse, Free Verse; Dr.Margaret Moore Jacobs; Chester G. Rider, Arkansas Writers Conference,NLAPW; Mid South Poetry Festival, Mid South Writers Association; Shade Tree Creations Art Affair
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Additional Information
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Who is Patricia A. Oplinger? She is a woman who encourages the poet lying deep within each person. She seeks to help others develop healthy sef-expression and an awareness of the world through fresh eyes.
Retirement allowed her to develop as a freelance writer and to establish The Storybook Project, a literacy program, inside state prison walls 12 years ago that keeps families connected through reading.
Collaborator Carol L. Funke and Pat read and showed work from In the Playhouse of My Mind Volume I of the Circle of Life Trilogy (2007)at a joint meeting of the St. Louis Writers' Guild and the St. Louis Arts Alliance.
In November 2008 collaborator Carol L. Funke and Pat premiered Scattered Rainbows Volume II of their Circle of Life Trilogy at WORDS, an independent bookstore in Hardy, Arkansas. Life on a Seesaw Volume III debited November 2009.
Pat is a contributing author to Echoes of the Ozarks V (HighHill Press), an anthology dedicated to people in the Ozarks. "Another Kind of Needy" is the story of how she and Don Heern established The Storybook Project, a prison ministry-literacy program, in the Newport State Correctional Facility, at Newport, Arkansas twelve years ago.
Grandmother Earth 2011 published Pat's Environmental Award-winning poem, "Sunset Through the Trees" and "Marbelized" her free verse 2 HM poem.
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Favorite Links
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Playhouse of My Mind
This site is a summary of our books, our intentions, our availability.
Funke Originals
My collaborator, Carol L. Funke, is an established artist whose works have appeared in galleries from coast to coast. Her talent and presence in my life is a gift that has changed my path. In reacting to each other's work, sometimes the words come first, sometimes the visual images do.
Circle of Life Trilogy
Information on collaborators artist Carol L. Funke and poet Patricia A. Oplinger regarding In the Playhouse of My Mind Volume I, Scattered Rainbows Volume II, and Life on a Seesaw Volume III of our Circle of Life Trilogy is available as well as order forms for the trilogy books and the CDs.
Circle of Life Trilogy books and CDs
Information on collaborators Artist Carol L. Funke and poet Patricia A. Oplinger is available as well as ordering forms for their Circle of Life Trilogy of books and the accompanying CDs.
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