Poetry Corner: Poetry can stimulate and soothe at the same time, and in these hot summer days, a poet remembering an Ashland winter day can do both. Read, and dream about snow before going out into the summer sun.
Poetry Corner: It’s haiku and beyond, proving once again, if proof were needed, that Ashland, Oregon, is the nursery of poets. Elaine Maveety and Jim Flint find beauty in subjects from the natural world to Burma Shave, and each has its own particular poetic charm.
Poetry Corner: Two poems from Talent poets, describing more beauties of the Rogue Valley in free verse and haibun.
Poetry Corner: This week’s poems celebrate the enchantments and treasures to be found in and around a small town — especially when that town is Ashland, Oregon.
Poetry Corner: This week, two Ashland poets, Johanna Goff and Laurel Winter, celebrate nature and spring in our own backyard. And Barry Vitcov renews his call to Ashland poets for Ashland-focused poetry.
Poetry Corner: Welcome to Poetry Corner! Here you’ll find poems submitted by local poets about life in Ashland and Southern Oregon.
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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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