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Some of the world's great poets have spoken eloquently about their art and the contribution poetry makes to us and to the world. Here is one of my favorite quotations that sums up my feelings about poetry.
Carl Sandburg: Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance."
Come ask the shadows to dance with Carl and me, and the poet lying deep within you will help brush away the daily dust from the
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Background
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My award-winning essays, book reviews, columns, travel and humor articles have appeared in newspapers, literary magazines, and in the National Pen Woman Magazine and Deep South Magazine online.
My poetry has been published in Grandmother Earth, The Sound of Muses, Echoes of the Ozarks, Thinking Aloud/Allowed, A Trail of Thoughts, and in The Circle of Life Trilogy: In the Playhouse of My Mind Volume I, Scattered Rainbows Volume II, and Life on a Seesaw Volume III both hardcopy and audio books with South Carolina 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 recently completed terms as President of the Spring River Branch of the National League of American Pen Women, and as 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:two Personal Essay awards from the June 2012 Arkansas Writers Conference Award; National Poetry Month Poem of the Day from Deep South Magazine; 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 which is still expanding, inside state prison walls 15 years ago that keeps families connected through reading.
Collaborator Carol L. Funke and Pat have read and showed artwork from the Circle of Life Trilogy at venues ranging at a joint meeting of the St. Louis Writers' Guild and the St. Louis Arts Alliance to regional libraries of Arkansas.
from 2001 to 2009 collaborator Carol L. Funke and Pat premiered the coffe table hardcopy books of their trilogy at WORDS, an independent bookstore in Hardy, Arkansas.
Audio books of the Circle of Life trilogy Volumes I, II, and III were released in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Pat is a contributing author of poetry and prose to collections and anthologies such as Grandmother Earth (2011), "Sunset Through the Trees" and "Marbelized"; and Echoes of the Ozarks,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 fifteen years ago.
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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 audio books.
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