GREGORY ORMSON

Poetry – literature – writing

  • In The Golden Moment: A riders journal on sunset, highway, and wind by Gregory Ormson

    September’s issue of Thunder Press includes a 2021 review of Sturgis Bike Week and my story below. Thanks Kevin Duke (ed)., and Oliver Touron for this photo of Debbie and I heading west on I-8 closing in on Yuma, AZ. Riding for #MMIWC on the way to San Diego’s #MedicineWheelRide. Link to full issue below…

  • Brown Bag Literary – sounds of the universe – “a literary platform for art to live in conversation with one another”

    Brown Bag online literary is out today including two of my contributions and many more. This issue, which they’ve titled Jackson, takes readers on a journey through the solar and lunar system in words and sounds; it highlights the individual story – and music in that story – with the complicated tangle in the biggest…

  • Water Greed Shortages and Predictions

    Water Greed Shortages and Predictions

      Arizona has a severe water crisis and we are headed for big problems. Desert water is precious, especially in the midst of a 26 year dry spell now called a “mega-drought.” Remember fist-fights taking place over masks? That will look like child play when water rationing starts. When we are finally forced to ration…

  • WE STILL STAND

      “We still stand.” An Agnostis/Ormson collaboration dedicated to ongoing and growing movement for change driven, in part, by the activism of #MMIWRiders and #mmiwg #rideformmiw #NoMoreStolenSisters keyboard, composition, photos and video randy anagnostis. lyric, background sounds, and vocal gregory ormson Original song, “Indigenous Souls.”

  • “We Still Stand” spoken word music for Indigenous resiliance and tenacity

    Many thanks to the #mmiwriders for allowing us to support and be part of the 2021 San Diego Medicine Wheel Ride. The many thousands of murdered and missing Indigenous Sisters is beyond tragic. The efforts created by #mmiw – to champion greater awareness and change – are necessary and commendable. ⊕ FAST FACTS: “In 2016, there were…

  • Talking Story and Riding the Medicine Wheel #rideformmiw

      Truer than ever before, much of the world was asleep in their screens during 2020. Television, cell phones, and computers offered connections during the worst of the world-wide pandemic, but connections sans touch. Such connections seem void of what I’d call true encounter. An incarnated connection is more real for it’s in the flesh…

  • Thank you OM Yoga Magazine (UK) for publishing “Yoga as a life-altering gift.”

    Inspired by the breath training and yoga practice of Magnus Carlsen, eight time world Grand Chessmaster (a story from The Best American Sports writing of 2020), I found connections between Carlsen’s practices training for chess matches – that can take up to a week – and my experiences with freediving, motorcycling, and yoga.   From…

  • YOUR DIRTY LITTLE LIES

    “Your Dirty Little Lies,” is dedicated to us for putting up with the dirty little of the politicians; this protest music and word piece emotes that story. An Anagnostis/ Ormson piece recorded in Mesa, AZ.  

  • Spoken Word collaboration with music, video, photo, word.

    I’m pleased with this music, video, and word piece edited and created by Randy Anagnostis; with collaboration from Gabriel Thorburn’s photo of mountain sheep and lyrics from the poem, “Many Names Have Never Been Spoken Here,” written by Russell Thorburn during their father-son Mohave Preserve National Parks Residency in 2013. Vocal interpretation of Thorburn’s poem…

  • Just singin’ about another Dirty Ol’ Town

    Preppin for St. Patrick’s Day and singin about another Dirty Ol Town   https://soundcloud.com/greg-ormson/dirty-old-town