What Is the Invitation?
Let’s explore the elasticity, the resiliency, the wellspring of language, of expression. Let’s call it what we want. Let’s call it prosetry. Let’s mix and unmatch. Let’s reset, upset. Let’s rewrite the terms and conditions after this dislocated year of engagement and disassociation, of distress, disbelief, disaster, discrimination, dystopianism. In this generative workshop, let’s re-locate, re-associate, re-member, re-up, re-examine the before and now and maybe. Let’s re-imagine the invitation, renew our commitment to the story we came to tell.
High desert writer Ellen Waterston has published four poetry and three literary nonfiction titles, including, most recently, Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail, University of Washington Press, 2020. Hotel Domilocos, Moonglade Press, 2017 is her most recent collection of poetry. She teaches nonfiction in the OSU Cascades low residency MFA program, is founder of the Writing Ranch, which conducts retreats for writers, and of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, recently adopted as a program of the High Desert Museum. She lives in central Oregon.
Read more about Ellen Waterston at:
www.writingranch.com and www.highdesertmuseum.org