Category Archives: Language

The Non-word of the Day

Over the summer I began thinking “What could I possibly tweet that would be interesting?” Here’s the plan. Beginning in January, Literary Ashland will tweet a non-word of the day. We’ll make up a word, and post its definition in … Continue reading

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Our SPAM

We here at Literary Ashland get a lot of comments, but 90% of them are SPAM. Since I moderate the comments, the spam doesn’t make it through to you. The spam is mostly incoherent jibberish with links back to the … Continue reading

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Of THE I sing

It’s National Poetry Month, so I want to highlight some found verbal art. Southern Oregon University has a new logo and vision. We’ve got the big concentric U. The u-in-a-U replaces the old moving mountains—or tombstone—logo. The new logo says … Continue reading

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