Events & Opportunities

March 7, 2025

Poetry Workshop and Reading with Ellen Waterston

Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston will lead a poetry workshop for adults and teens from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Space is limited; preregister at the library. A poetry reading will follow at 6:30 p.m. in the Grace Scatterday room.

workshop 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.; reading 6:30 p.m., Dallas Public Library, Dallas

March 11, 2025

Ditch Rider: Reflecting on the First Six Months as Oregon’s Poet Laureate

Six months into her two-year term as Oregon’s eleventh Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston will share anecdotes, examples of writings that have emerged from workshops by youth and elders across the state, and a sampling of recent commissions for official functions. She will also invite those present to participate in her poet laureate project.

1:00 p.m., Downtown Bend Library, Bend

March 15, 2025

Down to the Studs: The Essentials

Supplemented with handouts and using a variety of in-class approaches, this three-hour intensive will explore what’s essential in landing a poem, from inside out and outside in. Limited to 20 participants. Register here.

1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Downtown Bend Library, Bend

March 18, 2025

Reading with Ellen Waterston

Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston presents her work at Cook Memorial Library.

5:30 p.m., Cook Memorial Library, La Grande

May 3, 2025

Terroir Creative Writing Festival

Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston will participate in the 2025 Terroir Creative Writing Festival. The aim of the festival is to build a stronger literary community by encouraging and spotlighting local writers while also making connections with the writing and publishing community beyond Yamhill County.

9:00 a.m., Stoller Experience Center, Dayton