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Last week, Southern Oregon University honored three retired faculty members with its highest award: the President鈥檚 Medal.

April is over, but the poetry remains. JX listeners celebrated poetry month by generously sharing their poems.

Oregon School for the Deaf senior Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris is only the second deaf student to win the state's Poetry Out Loud competition by performing three poems using American Sign Language. He will now represent Oregon at the national semi-final round.

It's often said of poetry that there's a kind of music to it. You'll get no disagreement there from Stephen Rodgers. He's a professor of music theory and鈥�

Emily Dickinson is revered for her poetry, yet still something of an enigma. No one is quite sure why she was so reclusive later in life, spending nearly鈥�

Richard Blanco has traveled many miles since his appearance reading his poetry at the second Obama inaugural in 2013. And his travels have taken him to鈥�

Reading the name of Oregon's current Poet Laureate can make people do a double-take. Because his name is Stafford. Kim Stafford. He is the ninth poet鈥�

We certainly live in an inspiring place. It's almost like poetry. But there are plenty of people who write poetry from and about the region. They include鈥�

When people call Richard Blanco "the inaugural poet," they don't mean that he's the first poet ever. But he is rare, in that he recited his poetry at a鈥�

It only took a few thousand years, but Oregon has its first official Native American Poet Laureate. Elizabeth Woody was named Oregon Poet Laureate by鈥�

You have to be a VERY good poet for your work to still be revered hundreds of years after you die. Even Shakespeare's work has not been esteemed as long鈥�

Speaking to an audience: check. Speaking to an audience without notes: uhh, check. Speaking to an audience without notes and in verse: okay, this is where鈥�