Poetry Corner: The Poetry Corner continues to celebrate the renewal that theater and old growth forests bring to Southern Oregon. Poets Pepper Trail and Bruce McConnell approach age and renewal from different perspectives, different settings, and all the ambiguity offered by both.
Poetry Corner: Japanese short form poetry haiku and senryu, nature and the human condition, return to this week’s Poetry Corner.
Poetry Corner: Southern Oregon celebrates theater with a variety of offerings, from Shakespeare, modern classics, and newly created.
Poetry Corner: Ashland is alive with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 90th Anniversary Celebration and a vibrant street scene. We celebrate with a pair of poems celebrating theater and Ashland Plaza.
Poetry Corner: Let’s hit the open road with motorcylces whizzing by and the thrill of adventure surrounding us with Chris Smits’s poem “Bikers.”
Poetry Corner: A Valentine’s gift for parents, grandparents, and great grandparents who would like to help their young one’s count with a rhythmic and rhyming poem.
Poetry Corner: The Rogue Valley growing landscape has transformed itself many times, from pears and lumber to wine and hemp. This week’s poet tells a history and a current scene.
Poetry Corner: Celebrate the New Year with poetry inspired by the Oregon Caves National Monument, one of Southern Oregon’s natural treasures.
Poetry Corner: Here is a variety of haiku, senryu, and a poem involving our popular Ashland coffee culture. In one way or another, they all seem appropriate impressions gathered during the holiday season.
Poetry Corner: It’s that time of the year for organizing end-of-year tasks and thinking about turning the calendar page to a new year. If you have a poem for any holiday that celebrates with light, even if not at this time of the year — Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Lantern Festival, Lunar New Year, New Year’s, or any other festivity where light plays a significant role — please, consider submitting to the Poetry Corner.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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