New Poetry
“To Make the Broken Whole” On the Poetry of AHD,” selection of poems from Blue Flax with intro by Cynthia Hogue, Persimmon Tree
“The Boar Hunters,” Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Taking Liberties Issue
“Question” & “Tannin, Sky, Night,” Spring 2025, Ploughshares
“Molé Negro,” High Country News, June 2024, https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-6/mole-negro/
“The First Jaguar,” “The Second Jaguar,” “The Deer,” The More-Than-Human World issue, About Place Journal
“The Bracelet,” and “The Buck,” Issue Nine, 2023 Cherry Tree
“Field Studies,” “Written in the Dark,” and “The Shut-Off Weir,” Alaska Quarterly Review
“Wild Apples,” “National Forest,” and “Whitewater Draw” Navigations: A Place for Peace issue of About Place Journal
“Kinship with Trees and Crows” Plant-Human Quarterly, July 2021 https://otherwisecollective.com/phq-current-issueps://otherwisecollective.com/phq-current-issue
“The Bog” and “Views of Nature” Kenyon Review, March/April 2021 https://kenyonreview.org/journal/marapr-2021/index/
“Letter to 2050” Scientific American, January 2021 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/poem-letter-to-2050/
“Territory Drive” terrain.org, Letter to America Series https://www.terrain.org/2020/letter-to-america/letter-to-america-deming-2/
“The Dioramas” Fractured Ecologies, ed. Chad Weidner, Agger, Denmark: EyeCorner Press, 2020
“Neil Armstrong’s Heart” and “Dear Moon” Giant Steps: Fifty Poets on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Beyond, ed. Paul Munden and Shane Strange, Canberra, Australia: Recent Work Press, 2019
“Two Poems in Memory of Merwin: The Trowel and The Leaf” Kenyon Review online, 2019, https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/in-memoriam-3/selections/alison-hawthorne-deming-763879/
“Galapagos” New England Review, 39.1, 2018 http://nereview.com
“The Gardener’s Creed” forthcoming in An Island in the Stream: Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture, Lexington Books. 2018
“Castalia” Green Linden Press, Issue 1
“Golden Pomegranate” Edible Baja Arizona Magazine in photo essay “Sonoran Desert Musings” By Adela Licona http://ediblebajaarizona.com/essay-sonoran-desert-musings
“Afterlife” for Rafe Sagarin, Shenandoah Magazine Blog, July 2015 http://shenandoahliterary.org/blog/2015/07/afterlife-by-alison-hawthorne-deming/
“Morning in the Lung” September 3, 2014 : Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments
“Stairway to Heaven” January 24, 2014 : Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
“Chauvet” July/August 2012 : Orion
“Mosquitoes” May-June 2012 : American Scientist
“The Toothbrush” January 2011 : For Steve Orlen (1942 – 2010)
“Pandora on Prozac,” “Specimens Collected at the Clearcut,” and “Glooscap in Wolfville” with audio Fall 2009 : Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments
“To Orpheus, If You Had Been My Brother…,” “Eurydice,” and “Zeus” February 2007
“Persephone Speaks” September 1, 2006 : Kore Press Blog, Persephone Speaks
“The Andrews Forest Quartet” Spring 2006 : HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Writers-in-Residence Program [more info]
New Prose
“Kissing Trees,” Plant-Human Quarterly, Otherwise Collective
“Mobius: A Meditation of Art and Science,” The Georgia Review, Winter 2024, https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/authors/deming-alison-hawthorne/
“The Eye of Water,” Prairie Schooner, Water Feature curated by Kimberly Blaeser, Winter 2023 https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter-2023/
“Ten Takes on Ecology and Justice,” Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Winter 2022
“The Sardine Dress” Literary Hub, August 25, 2021 https://lithub.com/
“Silk” The Georgia Review, Summer 2021, https://thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/summer-2021/
“The Stone Weirs,” Carbon Copy: Climate Science + Literary Arts, ed. Lawrence Lenhart, Fall 2019, https://www.carboncopy.world/deming
“Invasive Beauty,” The Georgia Review, Spring 2019, https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/invasive-beauty/
“A Portrait in Five Portraits,” Meridel Le Sueur Essay, Water~Stone, Winter 2018, https://waterstonereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Deming.pdf
“Spill Stories: Drag Racing to the End of the World,” terrain.org, 2018 https//www.terrain.org
“Driving the Cadillac to Valhalla,” Arkansas International, 2018 https://www/arkint.org
“On Borders, North and South,” High Country News, September, 19, 2016
“The House Built of Herring,” Prairie Schooner, Winter 2016
“Coming Home to Earth: What Purse Seines, Pumpjacks, and a Twitter Feed from Space Taught one Worried Citizen about the Beauty of Climate Change in 2016” The Georgia Review, Summer 2016
“The Cheetah Run” July 6, 2014 : Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments
“Curatorial Commentary” 2013 : The Language of Conservation: Poetry in Library and Zoo Collaborations (Poets House)
Ruin and Renewal January 2013 : Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments
Brazilian Notebook Summer 2012 : A Blog Series on Terrain.org
People, Habitat, Poetry: The University of Arizona Poetry Center 2011 : Blueprints: Bringing Poetry to Communities (The University of Utah Press and The Poetry Foundation)
“Culture, Biology, and Emergence” : An Excerpt Spring 2009 : The Georgia Review (Special Issue)
“The Future of Environmental Essay” Summer/Fall 2008 : Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments [Alison’s Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference presentation—along with David Gessner, David Rothenberg, and Lauret Savoy—with audio excerpt]
“Brief Encounter on the Savanna” Summer 2008: OnEarth [and listen to podcast and interview: “What Nature Teaches — If We Listen”]
“Cormorant,” “My Cat Jeffrey,” and “Dogtags” February 2007 : Forthcoming in Zoologies
“The Owl, Spotted” Fall 2006 : OnEarth [more info]