Monsoon season may or may not bring much-needed rain to the Colorado Plateau as it manifests cloud formations dry and ghostly (virga), threatening and inundating (nimbus), or whimsical (jellyfish). In his stunning photographs of Wupatki National Monument, on view at HeArt Box Gallery in Flagstaff, park ranger Stephen Bridgehouse focuses his time-lapse lens on the contrasts between the Indigenous peoples’ 800-year-old red-stone architecture and the blues and whites of the eternal Southwestern sky.

What does rain mean to you? Inspired by Bridgehouse’s images, and readings from the Hopi and other Southwestern writers, we’ll write to celebrate the sky and call down the rain. Prayers and blessings; poems and memoir; essays and fiction. The workshop is open to all writers, from curious to established, to express in any form. We look forward to seeing you at The HeArt Box. [Free to Indigenous writers!]

Camille LeFevre, B.A., M.A., lives on the unceded ancestral lands of the Hisatsinom (Hopi), Yavapai, and Apache in Northern Arizona. Her essay, “Body Topography,” published in The Dodge, was nominated for Best American Nature Writing and Best American Essays. Her work also appears in Hydration, Metphrastic, Fugue, Unleash Lit, The Winged Moon, Electric Lit, Brevity Blog, Bridge Eight, Thin Air, and The Ekphrastic Review. She teaches arts writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and writing workshops in art galleries. She’s an August artist-in-residence at Dorland Mountain Arts, and will be an artist-in-residence at Wupatki in Fall 2025.