Oregon's Poet Laureate, Peter Sears, is the author of four full-length poetry collections: "Tour," "The Brink," "Green Diver" and a new collection, "Small Talk," from Lynx House Press.

His second full-length collection, "The Brink," received the Gibbs-Smith poetry prize and the Western States Book Award for Poetry. He is also the author of several chapbooks and two supplementary teaching texts, "Secret Writing" and "I’m Gonna Bake Me a Rainbow Poem" (Scholastic Publishers).




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