Poetry Night: Ellen Waterston and Jeff Fearnside
Cozy up for a night of poetry as acclaimed writers Ellen Waterston and Jeff Fearnside share their latest collections. Completed while travelling the state during her first year as Oregon’s Poet Laureate, the poems in Waterston’s As Far as I Can Anthem enlist the people and places across Oregon to inform, challenge and inspire readers in vital and unexpected ways. Fearnside’s most recent book, Lake: Love Poems, is focused on the concept of place, specifically Central Asia, where he lived for four years, and Oregon, his home for the past 13 years. The poems are connected by the thread of his courtship with and marriage to the woman who has experienced these places with him, his life partner Valentina.
At a Loss for Words
Join Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston for a free and public event in the Lincoln City Cultural Center. The event will include a presentation and time for audience Q&A.
Writing Around Harney County
A public reading at the Harney County Library featuring Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston.
Write Place with Ellen Waterston
Write Place welcomes Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston to read and discuss her work. WOU president, Dr. Jesse Peters, will introduce Waterston.
This event will take place in the Willamette Room at Werner University Center.
Astoria Column One-Hundredth Anniversary Rededication
One hundred years after the original dedication of the historic monument, the community will gather to honor the past and look towards the future. Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston will read a poem commissioned for the occasion.
Poetry in Place: Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston
The work of Oregon's eleventh Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, is deeply rooted in considerations of place. At this event, Ellen will read some of her work and engage in a discussion of her experiences as Poet Laureate travelling across our state. She will also lead one to two writing workshops prior to the evening reading.
The Poetry Express: On the Road with Oregon's Poet Laureate
Oregon's Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, has visited twenty-two of the state's thirty-six counties in the past two years. At this event, she will reflect on her first term and her Poetry in Public Places initiative, read some of her work, and offer writing exercises for the audience to try.
There Was a Time When the Word for Tree Was Landholder
Join Ellen Waterston, author and Oregon Poet Laureate, in contemplating and celebrating all things words—their origins, power, color, meaning, and musicality; their evolution and life span; their exotic configuration into languages. What do the modifications, abuses, and possible losses of words signal about our capacity for relationship to place and one another?
Poem: Luck of the Divide
A poem by Ellen Waterston, Oregon's eleventh Poet Laureate
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