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This particular author awoke one morning to the fact she was middle-aged and anonymous. It gave her a wonderful freedom. She knew she could move about in her mind unnoticed and invisible. This time she decided to put her images down on paper. As the threads evolve she generates her poetry and prose.
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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, addicted to the stimulation of daily life, I continue to create word images that hopefully impart hard-earned wisdom while inspiring 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 and Scattered Rainbows Volume II 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 a member of the Spring River Branch of the National League of American Pen Women; International Womens Writers Guild; Poets Roundtable of Arkansas; National Federation of American Poets; Twin Lakes Writers; Cherokee Village Writers Guild; Ozark Writers League
Awards: Tyler Memorial; Tom McDaniel; Hoy Lampley; Nina Hepburn; Best Poem of the Festival; Character Description, Rhymed Verse, Free Verse; Dr.Margaret Moore Jacobs; Chester G. Rider-from the following organizations - National League of American Pen Women, Arkansas Writers Conference, Mid South Poetry Festival, Mid South Writers Association, Poetry Society of Tennessee, 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 that keeps families connected through reading.
Recently 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 at a joint meeting of the St. Louis Writers' Guild and the St. Louis Arts Alliance.
On November 15, 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.
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Contact Information
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CarpeTemke
2 Skeinah Circle
Cherokee Village AR 72529
USA
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Contact Author: Patricia A. Oplinger
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Playhouse of My Mind
This site is a summary of our book, our intentions, our availability.
Funke Originals
My collaborator, Carol L. Funke, is an established artist whose works have appeard 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.
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