I’ll be at the AWP Annual Conference in Los Angeles. Catch me at these events:
FEATURED EVENT SPONSORED BY RED HEN PRESS: “POETRY OF THE WEST”
With Will Alexander, Peggy Shumaker, Alison Hawthorne Deming, and Harryette Mullen
Saturday, March 29 at 12:10 PM in Petree Hall C, Level 1, Los Angeles Convention Center.
BOOK SIGNINGS
Thursday, March 27 at 1 PM, Red Hen Press Book Fair Booth 345, with Katharine Coles
Friday, March 28 at 1 PM, Terrain.org Book Fair Booth 323-5
I started a Substack! Come find me here making occasional observations, musings, writings, updates on events, and more, including a special feature:
Bonus Poems for Resisting the Coup.
I will be on two panels at the Tucson Festival of Books. Here’s the scoop!
Event #1 Details
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What is Ecopoetry? |
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Student Union Kiva |
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Saturday, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
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Panelists: |
Alison Hawthorne Deming, Jenny Irish, Saretta Morgan |
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Moderators: |
Susan Briante |
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Poetry |
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Sponsors: |
Max McCauslin and John Smith, Frank and Kathryn Hartley |
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Sales & Signing Area – UA Campus Store Main Floor |
Description
What is ecopoetry and why does it matter? Our three poets will discuss how poetry can explore our connection to the environment. With readings and discussion, they will demonstrate poetry’s ability to reimagine human relationships with the natural world and confront our planet’s crises.
Event #2 Details
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Acts of Defiance |
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Student Union Kiva |
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Sunday, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
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Panelists: |
Alison Hawthorne Deming, Perry Janes, Farid Matuk |
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Moderators: |
Logan Phillips |
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Genres: |
Poetry |
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Escorts: |
Corrina Margaros |
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Sponsors: |
Max McCauslin and John Smith |
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Signing Area: |
Sales & Signing Area – UA Campus Store Main Floor |
Description
Poetry gives us permission to rebel, to misbehave, to speak truth to power and to imagine futures better than the ones we’ve been presented with. With wit, craft, and profound courage, these panelists harness language to celebrate small victories and teach us the joys of artistic disobedience.
For general questions please see the Festival’s FAQ document, which is available here: Tucson Festival of Books | TFOB FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Details to come
Come join our multidisciplinary celebration of the Santa Cruz River: Music + Art + Landscape
including my essay “River Notes” in a mashup with Prokofiev and other works. Concert is free.
For details and reservations: https://scfpapresents.org/performance/watershed-soundscape-a-music-art-landscape-event/
Patagonia Opera House, Patagonia, Arizona, 6PM on January 25.
Essay Daily’s Advent Calendar is a call to fill the month with essays on essays and such. Here’s my contribution on This Exquisite Loneliness by Richard Deming that posted 12/11/2024
https://www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-11-alison-hawthorne-deming-of.html
The gorgeous cover is in!
Big gratitude to Red Hen Press–and to David Baker and Ellen Bass for their treasured words to shepherd the book into the world.
Publication date March 4, 2025. Available for pre-order now.
UPCOMING MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONCERTS:
November 21, 2024, 5-7 PM | Watershed Management Group Living Lab | Tucson
November 22, 2024, 5-7 PM | Watershed Management Group Living Lab | Tucson
November 23, 2024, 5-7 PM | Watershed Management Group Living Lab | Tucson
January 25, 2025, 6 PM | Patagonia Opera House | Patagonia
Living Lab tours begin at 5 PM • Concert at 6 PM
Join us at the WMG Living Lab for a multidisciplinary concert experience exploring the sounds of our watershed. Before the concert, take some time to enjoy rainwater refreshments and tour WMG’s demonstration site for hydro-local living and watershed resilience. The campus is supported by rainwater for all indoor and outdoor needs almost year-round, and includes extensive rain gardens, a native food forest, a 10,000 gallon underground cistern, art exhibits about Tucson’s history of flowing creeks and rivers, a kids’ play area, composting toilets, and so much more.
This unique event is supported by the 2024-2025 AIR Annual Resilience Theme Award.
HEAR MY CONTRIBUTION TO THIS COLLABORATIVE CELEBRATION OF THE WATERSHED:
The music for Sergei Prokofiev’s Quintet, Op. 39 (1924) originated from a chamber ballet, Trapeze, which he composed in Paris for a traveling troupe of five musicians. Unique in its instrumentation and vibrant textures, the piece has been called “one of Prokofiev’s most radical scores.” In this performance, the Quintet is brought into dialogue with excerpts from a contemporary essay, River Notes (2024), which Alison Hawthorne Deming wrote specifically for the Watershed Soundscape project. Here, Prokofiev’s six movements are unceremoniously excerpted and tossed out of order. Mapped onto the themes and colors of Deming’s prose, the music becomes both illustrator and provocateur, providing sonic commentary on themes of our watershed’s environmental and cultural histories.
COME WORK WITH ME AT THE OMEGA INSTITUTE, RHINEBECK, NY, JUNE 15 – 20, 2025 SPONSORED BY ORION MAGAZINE
