#gregoryormson

When the instructions stop and the body grows still, the restless mind often comes rushing back. In this essay for Asana International Yoga Journal, Gregory Ormson considers Savasana as a practice of release, non-grasping, and the difficult work of opening the hand. My essay, “Savasana and the Open Hand: A Practice of Release,” was published July 11, 2026, in Asana International Yoga…

From The Twin Bill, December 2020 Baseball and Nostalgia In 2020, I came across a brand-new literary baseball publication started in New York, The Twin Bill. It was started by Scott Bolohan. Immediately, I was enthralled by an online magazine focused on writing and baseball, two of my favorite subjects. So I submitted a piece, “The Diamond Speaks in Runes,” and it was published in their second…

Russell Thorburn writes of Send Dylan to the Country Ormson rips snow-driven chords hard on his Taylor acoustic, in Gummersound’s Marquette garage. The stove is heating up like his vocals, as a Dylan Thomas’ lower baritone jumps into the fray to describe a dog with a cigarette … humor for the pub. A step out the side door, winter is all smelly socks. Mrs. Henderson is there, and she’s willing…

IN Lightning Bolts and Stars, Gregory Ormson and Russell Thorburn pair up to create this spoken word piece with music. Ormson reading, Thorburn on Keyboards, and Darrell Syria guest on electric guitar. Listen in here to this spoken word piece, a precursor to my lyric memoir, Stories Emerge Like Bears. Lightning Bolts and Scars, originally published online in New Plains Review

Some batters arrive at the plate carrying heft. Some bring grace. Some survive enough innings to become myth. They’re all here and part of Team Flame. Nine batters in burnings and meditations, spirits and fires, spectacles and labors, longings and memories. They are dangerous poetic beautiful. Bodies on fire, smoking bats. Arms on fire, blazing flames. At the plate: combustions, strikeouts,…

A Hermit Crab Essay, Nine At-Bats in a Lineup Card BATTING SECOND Number 4, Short Stop, Asphalt (Coaches note: the fastest runner) On desert rides heat is built into the asphalt like a burning memory. In the desert’s hot waves, I recall Midwest summers when ball fields baked under August suns and my heart learned how quickly it could burn and how slowly it could mend. Summer, heat, the…

The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride began in Sydney, Australia in 2012, when Mark Hawwa imagined a themed motorcycle ride that could gather classic and vintage-style riders around a cause larger than the road itself. Today, DGR rides take place around the world, raising money and awareness for men’s mental health, prostate cancer research, and suicide prevention. In 2026, the ride was held on…