Writers-in-Residence and Other Visiting Writers
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Long-Term Ecological Reflections

The Long-Term Ecological Reflections program hosts two Writers-in-Residence Programs at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest; each occurs twice a year. Creative writers whose work reflects a keen awareness of the natural world and an appreciation for both scientific and literary ways of knowing are invited to apply for the Andrews Forest Writers Residencies. The Blue River Fellowships are offered to well-established writers by invitation. The resident writers live at the Andrews Forest for one to two weeks, interact with the scientists, explore the forest, and write. Writers are asked to visit several Long-Term Ecological Reflection plots, long-term research plots or other places of ecological interest, and to contribute their written reflections to the Forest Log.

Click here for descriptions of the Long-Term Ecological Reflection plots.

Click here for information about applying for Andrews Forest Writers Residencies.

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The Forest Log

An on-line journal of poems, essays, articles and other creative reflections on the Forest

Writers-in-residence:

(^* Blue River Fellows, others were Andrews Forest Residents)

Click on a title to read the selection.

Click on an author for biographical information.

Andrew Gottlieb (Spring 2012) -- Various works in progress

Jessica Hahn (Fall 2011) -- Chop Wood, Carry Water

Carla Wise (Fall 2011) -- Looking for Solace in the Natural World

Brian Turner^* (Fall 2011) -- Where the Forests Breathe

Brenda Peterson (Spring 2011) -- Initial blog postings from Andrews

Karin Gastreich (Spring 2011) -- Reflections from a Writers Residency (Blog); Born of Fire

Carey Bagdassarian (Spring 2011) -- Decomposition Study; Hand Tools

Lori Anderson Moseman (Fall 2010) -- Varible Poetic Cruise Andrews Experimental Forest

Kathleen Heideman (Spring 2010) -- Andrews Forest residency documented in multiple blog postings

Jane Hirshfield^* (Spring 2010) -- Wild Ginger (Orion); Lichens (The Atlantic)

John Campbell (Spring 2010) -- SCOPE: An Andrews Forest Residency

Miriam Sagan (Fall 2009) -- Blog; Various works

Gary Paul Nabhan^* (Fall 2009) -- Light Gaps/Dark Gaps//Andrews Forest/Tumamoc Hills; Field Notes/End Notes to a Prose Poem

Tim Fox (Fall 2009) -- The Mountain Lion

Jim Dodge (Spring 2009) - (works in progress)

Jerry Martien (Spring 2009) -- Pacific Dogwood; return of the dead log people (Video of Jerry reading his poem.); a ramble in the andrews; Design

Tom Fleischner (Fall 2008) -- Journal Excerpts; Winter's First Rains

Scott Russell Sanders^* (Fall 2008) -- Log from a Stay at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest; Mind in the Forest

Freeman House^* (Spring 2008) -- Momento Mori; Varieties of Attentiveness

John Elder^* (Spring 2008) -- Purity and Change: Reflections in an Old-Growth Forest

Maya Zeller (Spring 2008) -- Poems from the Andrews Forest

Elizabeth Bernays (Spring 2008) -- Of Moisture and Moss

Laird Christensen (Spring 2008) -- The Other Side of the Clearcut; A Tree Falls in the Forest

Joan Maloof (Fall 2007) -- Four poems

Jane Coffey (Fall 2007) -- decay; Juxtaposition

Mary Evelyn Tucker ^* (Fall 2007) -- public lecture, "The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology," Oct. 26, 2007 to a crowd of about 100 people in OSU Library

Kathie Durbin (Spring 2007) -- Reflections on change, natural or otherwise: a forest journal

Christina Lovin (Spring 2007) -- Five poems

Kevin McKelvey (Fall 2006) -- Three poems

Bill Sherwonit (Fall 2006) -- Field Notes; Reflections on Thrush Songs, Newt Tracks and Old-Growth Stands of Trees

Michael Nelson^* (Fall 2006) -- A Letter to Number 400; Drowning Democritus

Vicki Graham (Spring 2006) -- Writings; Debris

Alison Hawthorne Deming^* (Spring 2006) -- The Andrews Forest Quartet; The Owl, Spotted ; The Web; This Ground Made of Trees; Attending to the Beautiful Mess of the World; Old Growth

Pattiann Rogers^* (Fall 2005) -- This Day, Tomorrow, and the Next; Genesis

Scott Slovic^* (Spring 2005) -- Out of Time

Robin Kimmerer^* (Fall 2004) -- Interview with a watershed; Listening to Water; Witness to the Rain

Robert Michael Pyle^* (Spring 2004) -- The Long Haul; Reflections: Field Notes, Journal Entries, Essay, Poems, and Comments

Other Visiting Writers :

(works of writers based on their visits to the Forest in Blue River Gathering, dissertation research, and other contexts)

Tom Leskiw -- Pre-Relevance; Writer Leskiw picked up the "pre-relevant" phrase at in a Long-Term Ecological Reflections pesentation at the 2005 meeting of the Association for Study of Literature and Environment and riffs off it in this essay. Winter 2012

Bill Yake (Spring 2011) -- Slough, Decay, and the Odor of Soil

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke -- came to the forest as part of Dragonfly Eyes field symposium and stayed a few days longer. Spring 2010

Rob Hoshaw -- Clearcut Ironies; written during a visit while working on his MS thesis at University of Oregon. Also see his 2009 thesis, The Contribution of Reflective Writing to Ecological Awareness, which is a study of the Reflections program .

Anita Sullivan -- Old Growth Forest; based on visit during Blue River Writers Gathering 2008.

Terre Ryan -- Timber culture: scenic Oregon and the aesthetics of clearcuts; a chapter from her PhD. Univ. of Nevada-Reno, which is now a chapter in her book "This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism" 2011 from Univ. of Massachusetts Press.

David Oates -- Field Notes from the Andrews Experimental Forest; based on visit during Blue River Writers Gathering 2006.

Visiting Scholars :

Chris Norment (Fall 2010) -- On Coming Out of the Desert, and Into the Rain

Elizabeth Farnsworth (Fall 2010) -- In the very large, the very small an essay; Thoughts on a triptych for the Andrews Research Station; A triptych for the Andrews Research Station

Aaron Ellison (Fall 2010) -- Decomposition and Memory an essay