Poetry Corner
Poetry Corner: Shorter Days
Poetry Corner: Seasons change and days grow shorter, which means time for shorter poems like haiku and senryu.
November 11, 2025
Poetry Corner: Seasons change and days grow shorter, which means time for shorter poems like haiku and senryu.
Poetry Corner: Let’s celebrate spring approaching summer with haiku, senryu and another short-form poem.
Poetry Corner: Japanese short form poetry haiku and senryu, nature and the human condition, return to this week’s Poetry Corner.
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.
Poetry Corner: Short poems and haiku often use visual images to communicate a mood, a feeling, an ephemeral moment.
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.
A winter storm warning will be in effect from 10 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16, to 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, for mid- to higher elevation parts of Jackson County according to a news release from the National Weather Service issued Sunday morning, Sunday, Feb. 15. A winter weather advisory will be in effect over the same time period for areas up to 2,000-foot elevation.
Ashland Planning Commission Chair Lisa Verner cast the deciding vote to partially approve, partially deny a housing project at 431 N. Main St., at the prominent corner of N. Main and Nursery Streets in the city’s nationally registered Skidmore Academy Historic District in a dramatic ending to the meeting of Tuesday, Feb. 10.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials are accepting applications for the agency’s annual summer artist-in-residence programs: one at the historic Rogue River Ranch National Historic Site and another at the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. The artists will have the opportunity to capture these lands during a milestone year.
Three civil rights veterans who were on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement will share their experiences during the “Choosing Courage” panel discussion from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the Southern Oregon University Recital Hall.
Reader Photo: Dale Robinette of Ashland captured this Valentine’s Day-appropriate image in Rogue River. How many can identify the riders, principal players in the ‘I Love Lucy’ TV show of the ’50s?
In light of Valentine’s Day weekend, Ashland Superintendent Joseph Hattrick read a statement during the school board meeting on Thursday, Feb. 12, about the love and care reflected in all parts of the district, and called for grace for the district’s teachers and board members amid a climate of potentially differing perspectives.
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