Weather Report: The Climate of Now (Flyer)

What used to be small talk is now survival. Talking about the weather is at the heart of where we are and who we are becoming in this climate crisis. When we hear that the world is on fire, those of us living in the American West understand this not as metaphor but fact. Terry Tempest Williams will address this moment in time as we think about what it means to live and love with a broken heart. Now is the time to face the what is, not what once was as we find the strength to not look away. Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find together

An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams

Williams is the author of 15 books on topics ranging from the national parks, women’s health and democracy. Winner of the Community of Christ International Peace Award, the Robert Marshall Award from the Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Williams’s work demonstrates how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her 2004 collection of essays, The Open Space of Democracy, was the sustainability common read this semester.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/leopold/1004/thumbnail.jp

Hemingway and the Natural World Keynote Address, Seventh International Hemingway Conference

Rooted in personal reflection, along with frequent excerpts from Hemingway’s work, Williams explores the author’s intimate relationship with nature, suggesting that Hemingway was deeply spiritual in his attachment to place. Further proposes a reversal of the Hemingway code in which the hero is held together by the physical world he inhabits rather than attempting to hold himself together in a world devoid of meaning

A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams is a conservationist, advocate for free speech, and the author of several books, poetry collections, and essay collections. With a career spanning over forty years, Williams has often been called a “citizen writer” who consistently illuminates how environmental issues are social issues, and ultimately how these issues transform into matters of justice. Her books include Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice and Williams’ most recent work, The Moon is Behind Us. Williams has received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, the Spirit of the Arctic Award, an International Peace Award, and a Robert Kirsch Award among many other accolades for her writing and activism. She is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School. During this program, Terry Tempest Williams read from her work and gave a brief talk on her writing and its relationship to our current times, following which she participated in a moderated onstage conversation

Reading: Terry Tempest Williams

In this audiovisual recording from March 16, 1999 as part of the 30th annual UND Writers Conference: “Expressing the Sacred,” Terry Tempest Williams reads excerpts from Leap. Williams also responds to audience questions about the piece she read from, the emotion of her writing, and distinguishing the personal and private. Introduced by Dr. Tami Carmichael

Weather Report: The Climate of Now (Lecture)

What used to be small talk is now survival. Talking about the weather is at the heart of where we are and who we are becoming in this climate crisis. When we hear that the world is on fire, those of us living in the American West understand this not as metaphor but fact. Terry Tempest Williams will address this moment in time as we think about what it means to live and love with a broken heart. Now is the time to face the what is, not what once was as we find the strength to not look away. Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find together