call up some poetry

Several years ago, when opportunities for in-person poetry were limited, Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani launched a Tele-Poem program for National Poetry Month. The poetry hotline is back for 2024 with new voices and new poems as well as an archive of poems from previous years. Call (503) 928-7008 and hear poems read by Laureates Paulann Petersen, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Woody, and Mojgani.

“It’s just a little door into a small room of quiet,” Mojgani says.