https://www.terrain.org/2025/podcast/the-gift-of-animals/
I was thrilled to be part of a collaboration between the UA Poetry Center and AZPM’s Arizona Illustrated. Thanks to David Fenster for the video rendering of my poem “Questions for a Saguaro.”
CELEBRATING THE PUBLICATION OF TERRY BELEW’S AWARD-WINNING BOOK
THE DEEP BLUE OF NEPTUNE
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 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)
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.
The Gift of Animals: Poems in Celebration of Animals and the People Who Love Them, edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming includes a stunning range of poetry celebrating the power of the human/animal connection. Stay tuned for details as pub date approaches in spring 2025.
A sixth collection of AHD poems, Blue Flax and Yellow Mustard Flower will also be out by summer of 2025. The title refers to the beautiful crops that grow on farmland in North Dakota where our nuclear missiles await deployment in their siloes. This book, written in a time when we could not travel due to the pandemic, looks at the bounty and contradictions to be found in travels to the Galapagos, Cuba, Spain, Greece, the poet’s beloved homelands of the Sonoran Desert and the Canadian Maritimes, and the America of our troubling time.
Poems from the collection have been published in Scientific American, About Place Journal, New England Review, Terrain.org, Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cherry Tree, and Plant-Human Quarterly.
Booking 2025 – 26 engagements now to share these new works!
I am thrilled to share this film made my Henry Quiron and Ashley Sanchez inspired by my poem “The Web “
