Eugene poets Eve Müller and Kelly Terwilliger were looking forward to their artists’ residency at Arizona’s Wupatki National Monument this fall.
They didn’t have a specific project in mind, and were excited to see what being in the desert, with a rich Indigenous history, would bring up for them.
The two would have stayed on Wupatki grounds to reflect on the natural surroundings, like they did for their joint poetry book “Water Questions,” which they created after swimming in wild Oregon waterways. They were excited to explore a desert environment, a 180-degree subject matter change from their previous work…