Community Calendar

Take time to nurture your creativity. In this four-session series, we will explore ways to use writing for self-expression, create short pieces of writing based on weekly themes, and incorporate other types of artistic expression into our writing. No writing experience is necessary - just an interest in being creative in a supportive, fun environment.

Monday June 2nd 7:00 to 8:00 pm

Kathleen McClung is the author of five poetry collections including Questions of Buoyancy (Longship Press, 2024). Others include A Juror Must Fold in on Herself, winner of the 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize, Temporary Kin, The Typists Play Monopoly and Almost the Rowboat. Winner of the Morton Marr, Maria W. Faust, and Rita Dove national poetry prizes, her work appears widely in journals and anthologies. In 2024 she was a finalist for San Francisco poet laureate. Guest editor for The MacGuffin in 2021-23, Kathleen teaches English at Skyline College, where she directed the annual Women on Writing conference for ten years. She also teaches for San Francisco State’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) and privately. http://www.kathleenmcclung.com

“Kathleen McClung may be the finest poet writing in form today. Questions of Buoyancy is a remarkable collection…. Wistful and haunting, these exquisite poems deserve to be read and reread.” –Jim Daniels

Amy Miller’s Astronauts, a chronicle of two sisters and addiction, won the Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize and was a finalist for the 2023 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her full-length poetry collection The Trouble with New England Girls won the Louis Award from Concrete Wolf Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Missouri Review, North American Review, Terrain, and ZYZZYVA, and she received a 2021 Oregon Literary Fellowship. She works as a communications editor for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and serves as poetry editor for JPR’s listeners’ guide, Jefferson Journal.

Take time to nurture your creativity. In this four-session series, we will explore ways to use writing for self-expression, create short pieces of writing based on weekly themes, and incorporate other types of artistic expression into our writing. No writing experience is necessary - just an interest in being creative in a supportive, fun environment.

Once a month, read and discuss a banned book. Explore what caused these books to be banned, what being banned means, and how this impacts us as a society. We will talk about the who and the why, and if we agree or disagree. Stop by the Medford Reference desk to pick up a copy of the month's current title while supplies last!

June: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

July: Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James

August: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Take time to nurture your creativity. In this four-session series, we will explore ways to use writing for self-expression, create short pieces of writing based on weekly themes, and incorporate other types of artistic expression into our writing. No writing experience is necessary - just an interest in being creative in a supportive, fun environment.

Give yourself the gift of time to write and connect with other women as we enter the season of spring. We will explore the gifts and rituals of the season, spend time writing, and be inspired as we share our work. No writing experience is necessary - just an interest in being creative in a supportive, fun environment.

Take time to nurture your creativity. In this four-session series, we will explore ways to use writing for self-expression, create short pieces of writing based on weekly themes, and incorporate other types of artistic expression into our writing. No writing experience is necessary - just an interest in being creative in a supportive, fun environment.

Take time to nurture your creativity. In this four-session series, we will explore ways to use writing for self-expression, create short pieces of writing based on weekly themes, and incorporate other types of artistic expression into our writing. No writing experience is necessary - just an interest in being creative in a supportive, fun environment.

Take time to nurture your creativity. In this four-session series, we will explore ways to use writing for self-expression, create short pieces of writing based on weekly themes, and incorporate other types of artistic expression into our writing. No writing experience is necessary - just an interest in being creative in a supportive, fun environment.

Take time to nurture your creativity. In this four-session series, we will explore ways to use writing for self-expression, create short pieces of writing based on weekly themes, and incorporate other types of artistic expression into our writing. No writing experience is necessary - just an interest in being creative in a supportive, fun environment.