Could we say that as a community it’s been an uncommon time? Yet, to speak is to speak for yourself. What has been your relationship to time? Has time shown up as shapeshifter, one day elongated, the next day in short supply? Would you say your concept of time changed over these past few years or more broadly, when have you recognized an era of your life when time played a lead role?

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In lieu of this workshop's cancellation, please feel free to explore the following "uncommon time" prompts independently: What is time to a body, how do we feel it and what tools do we use to measure it? Can we think of time as an absurd tender, frightening commodity, playful passage, pup wriggling or sandbar receding? If you’ve seen time, not visualized, I mean you’ve seen it. What was that vision? In what habitat do you make time your domain? What is an interruption? What is it to share time? Where does time go? Consider time as healer, mender, separator, connecter, individual or collective: recorded, acknowledged, curious, off beat, funky, weird, unexpected, unfamiliar, unconventional, rare, framed, spaced, shared, coveted.

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About the instructor: Native of Utah, Shari Zollinger has a BS in History from Utah State University. She spent six years of her life living in Taiwan, part of that time spent attending the Stanford Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei. Her love of language has directly inspired her work as a poet. Her poems have appeared in the Sugar House Review, Redactions: Poetry and Poetics, and The Desert Voice. Her book, Carrying Her Stone was inspired by the works of Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel. She works at Back of Beyond Books in Moab, Utah as their lead buyer.