"There's love, all the time beside me, its rolling tides polishing jagged moments with surprise apologies silly jokes extra snacks and the great luck of seeing a heart switch on the light that opens a locked-down face. There are landmarks: each person I've loved each one who loved me-quirky waves we've ridden together."
"No limit to the way love will at certain bleak points suddenly climb the horizon look out and blow its whistle to announce-no matter the riptide- a rescue it is ready to do."
"Immersed in the anti-war movement, women's liberation, and anti-racist activism, and influenced by the New York School of Poets, she began to understand art and political action as inherently intertwined, and has dedicated her life to utilizing the written word to stand up for equal rights."
Ellen Goldberg, a Portland-based poet, teacher, and community activist, has been selected to receive the 2026 Soapstone Bread and Roses Award, recognizing her lasting impact on Oregon's literary community. Soapstone, a grassroots nonprofit founded in 1992 by Ruth Gundle and Judith Barrington, originally provided writing residencies for women in Oregon's Coast Range before transitioning in 2013 to support women writers through grants, workshops, and programming. The annual award, presented on International Women's Day (March 8), includes $2,000 and roses. Goldberg, originally from Philadelphia, developed her artistic and political consciousness during the late 1960s and early 1970s at Barnard College, engaging with anti-war, women's liberation, and anti-racist movements while influenced by the New York School of Poets. She later moved to Oregon and helped establish the Mountain Moving Cafe in Portland during the mid-1970s.
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