Gregory Ormson Writer

Speaking as Hospitality

The best speakers aren’t performers. They’re hosts.

My new book, Speaking as Hospitality, will be published by Sutra House on January 5, 2027.

Speaking as Hospitality offers a different way to think about public speaking. Instead of concentrationg on performance, it begins with attention to the audience. Speakers begin by setting the table, and by welcoming listeners into their words and their person. Speaking in this way becomes an act of service, listening, and presence well before the speech.

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MORE OF MY WRITING will be unveiled in my lyric memoir, Stories Emerge Like Bears, scheduled for publication by Cornerstone Press in January, 2028. In that book, a philosopher’s circumambulation is presented in lyric prose, grounded in concrete images, physical detail, and lived experience.

The tone is reflective and observational, with emphasis on clarity, rhythm, and precision, with language favoring images, aural impact, and experience over explanation. Lyric prose allows meaning to emerge through detail and sensory connection along with traditional narrative frameworks.

Readers interested in literary nonfiction and rhythmic patterning, memoir, and reflective writing, as well as those interested in static or movable place-based experience will find favorable content here.

Lyric Nonfiction

Yoga and embodied practice See Yoga Song and others

Motorcycle Riding Stories, tales, and the trickster’s presence.

Literary essays Banjo Liberation and others

Speaking and Emotional Readiness Reading Yoga Song