Curriculum Vitae ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING www.alisonhawthornedeming.com
CHRONOLOGY OF EMPLOYMENT:
2017-present Regents Professor, Creative Writing Program, Department of English University Arizona
2014-2019 Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice, University of Arizona
2012-2014 Director, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, University of Arizona
2003-2017 Professor, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, University of Arizona
2009-2010 Acting Head, Department of English, University of Arizona
2007 Acting Director, Creative Writing Program, University of Arizona, spring semester
1998-2003 Associate Professor, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, University of Arizona
1990-2000/ Director, University of Arizona Poetry Center 2001-2002
1997 Distinguished Visiting Writer, University of Hawai’i, Mānoa, HI, fall semester
1988-90 Coordinator, Fellowship Program, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1983-87 Instructor, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
1984-85 Poetry Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
CHRONOLOGY OF EDUCATION: 1987-88 Wallace Stegner Fellow: Stanford University 1983 M.F.A. in Writing, Vermont College of Fine Arts Thesis: Signs of Conviction, a poetry collection; thesis director, Mark Doty Critical Paper: “The Engaging Mask: A Study of Self and Other in Six Contemporary Poets” Undergraduate study at Trinity College, Brown University, Harvard University Extension, and Goddard College. BOOKS: The Excavations, poems, under review at Penguin, which published my last three poetry books
A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen and the Sardine Dress, nonfiction, Counterpoint Press, forthcoming August 2021 (supported by a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation)
Stairway to Heaven, poetry, NY: Penguin, 2016, 101 pages
Death Valley: Painted Light, photographs by Stephen Strom and poems by Alison Hawthorne Deming, Santa Fe: George F. Thompson Publisher, 2016, 181 pages
Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit, nonfiction, Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2014, 256 pages
The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World, (revised and expanded edition) co-edited with Lauret E. Savoy, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011, 408 pages; available as audio book in 2014 through Audible.com
Rope, poetry, NY: Penguin, 2009, 96 pages
Field Notes on Hands, essay, Monograph Series #21, Deer Isle, ME: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 2007
Genius Loci, poetry, NY: Penguin, 2005, 89 pages
The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World, co-edited with Lauret E. Savoy, Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, August 2002, 218 pages
Writing the Sacred Into the Real, Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions/Credo Series: Notable American Writers on Nature, Community, and the Writing Life, (cloth and paperback editions) 2001, 140 pages
Anatomy of Desire: The Daughter/Mother Sessions, a limited edition chapbook co-authored by Alison Deming and Lucinda Bliss, Tucson: Kore Press, 2000, unpaginated chapbook
The Edges of the Civilized World, nonfiction, NY: St. Martin's/Picador USA, 1998 (cloth edition); Fall 1999 (paperback edition), finalist for the PEN Center West Literary Award, 240 pages
The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1997 (cloth and paperback editions), 74 pages
Poetry of the American West: A Columbia Anthology, Editor, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996 (cloth edition), 1999 (paperback edition), 328 pages
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Girls in the Jungle: What Does It Take for A Woman to Survive in the Arts?" Limited Edition Chapbook, Tucson: Kore Press, 1995, unpaginated chapbook
Temporary Homelands: Essays on Nature, Spirit and Place, NY: St. Martin's/ Picador USA, (paperback edition), 1996, 203 pages
Temporary Homelands (essays), San Francisco, CA: Mercury House, (cloth edition), 1994, 203 pages
Science and Other Poems, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (cloth and paperback editions), winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets (selected by Gerald Stern), 1994, 80 pages
HONORS AND AWARDS: 2021 Regents Professor Emerita, University of Arizona
2017-2019 Poet-in-Residence, “Field Work” Project, Poets House, Milwaukee Public Museum and Milwaukee Public Library (one of two poets nationally to develop poetry projects and installations at science museums and libraries)
2017 Regents Professor appointment, University of Arizona
2016 Pushcart Prize Nomination by The Georgia Review
2015 Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, nonfiction
2015 Best American Science and Nature Writing, “The Spotted Hyena,” Houghton Mifflin
2015 Residency Award, The Hermitage Writers Retreat, Englewood, FL
2014 Agnese Nelms Haury Chair of Environment & Social Justice appointment
2014 Senior Fellow, Spring Creek Project, Department of Philosophy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2014 Residency award (by invitation only), The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL
2009- 2011 Poet-In-Residence, Jacksonville (Florida) Zoo and Botanical Gardens, sponsored by Poets House in NYC and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, (one of five poets appointed nationally to develop poetry installations in U.S. zoos)
3 2011 Residency Award, The Bowers House, The Georgia Review, Athens, GA
2010 Best Essay Gold, GAMMA Awards, Magazine Association of the Southeast for “Culture, Biology, Emergence,” published by The Georgia Review, Spring 2009
2007 Best American Science and Nature Writing, “The Rabbit on Mars,” Houghton Mifflin
2006 Residency, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Long Term Ecological Reflections, Oregon State University, Western Cascades, OR
2005 Residency, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
2003 Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
2002 Residency, Mesa Refuge at Point Reyes, Common Counsel Foundation, Oakland, CA
2001 Residency, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
Finalist Award for Artist Fellowship, Tucson Community Foundation, Tucson, AZ
1998 Bayer Award in Science Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Pittsburgh, PA for the essay “Poetry and Science: A View from the Divide”
Finalist, PEN Center West Award for Creative Nonfiction, for The Edges of the Civilized World, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Poetry Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
Poetry Fellowship, Arizona Commission on the Arts
Residency Award, The Writers Community, The National Writers Voice Project, Scottsdale/Paradise Valley YMCA
1994 Residency Award, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Edinburgh, Scotland
1994 Walt Whitman Award, Academy of American Poets, for Science and Other Poems
1993 Pushcart Prize (nonfiction), Pushcart Press
Literary Fellowship (nonfiction), Tucson/Pima Arts Council
1992 Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts
Gertrude B. Claytor Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, New York, NY
4 Residency Award, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Residency Award, The Island Institute, Sitka, AK
1990 Poetry Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
Residency, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
1985 Residency, Cummington Community for the Arts, Cummington, MA
1983 – 84 Fellowship, The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1983 Pablo Neruda Prize: Nimrod, Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
READINGS AND LECTURES: (1998 - 2020) National/International:
2020 Reading for “Field Work: Aligning Poetry and Science,” Milwaukee Public Museum and Milwaukee Public Library WI (virtual event)
2020 “Town Hall” Book Launch Reading for Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX (virtual event)
2020 Reading, weeklong workshop, and author conversation for Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference, Bemidji, MN (virtual conference)
2020 Lecture, “Hunting for Herring,” Arizona Senior Academy, Tucson, AZ
2019 Reading, Live Lit Festival, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2019 Host & moderator for “Poetry and Science: Our Intimate Connections with Trees” with Forrest Gander and Nalini Nadkarni, NYC, NY
2019 “Hunting for Herring,” SBS “Animalities” Downtown Lecture Series, Tucson, AZ
2019 Reading and archival video interview, Brockport Writers Forum, SUNY, College of Brockport, NY
2019 “Hunting for Herring,” lecture, Grand Manan Museum, Grand Manan, NB, Canada
2019 Keynote & Workshop, Environmental Literature Institute, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2019 Associated Writing Program Annual Conference, Reading on “Dear America” Panel, Reading for book launch Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene
5 2019 Reading & Earth Day Celebration, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA
2018 Reading for “Field Work: Aligning Poetry & Science” at Salt Lake City Public Library, SLC, UT
2018 Reading for “Arts and Letters by the Sea,” Ogunquit Museum of America Art, Ogunquit, ME
2018 Reading & Collaboration with Sculptor Susan Lyman, Boston Sculptors’ Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Reading, Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, Enosburg Falls, VT
2018 Reading & Weeklong Workshop for Social Justice Week, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2018 Reading, Lecture, & Weeklong Workshop, Minnesota Northwoods Writing Conference, Bemidji, MN
2018 Reading for Poetry Installation Launch at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ
2018 Lecture, “Poetry & Science: New Relationships in the Anthropocene,” Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, MN
2018 Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Reading for Terrain.org and panel
2017 “Creating the Future: Art and Science at the Crossroads,” Talk at Milwaukee Public Library, launch of Field Work Project, Milwaukee, WI
2017 Keynote & Reading. Moravian College & Moravian Writers’ Workshop, Bethlehem, PA
2017 Reading, Poetry and Climate Change, University of Arizona Poetry Center
2017 Poetry Reading, Cornelia Street Café, New York City, NY
2017 Poetry Reading, Jupiter Poetry Series, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Reading, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN
2017 Poetry Reading, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
2017 Keynote, Spanish Association of American Studies, Extremadura University, Caceres, Spain and presentations at schools in Madrid, Caceres, and Merida sponsored by American Embassy
2017 Panel on Writing the Lives of Animals, NonFiction Now Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
6 2017 Poetry Reading, Grand Manan Museum, Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada
2017 Reading for TRUTH TO POWER ANTHOLOGY, Antigone Books, Tucson, AZ
2016 Readings, Panels, Discussions: Union of Artists and Writers, Havana, Cuba
2016 Reading, Good Oak Bar, Tucson AZ
2016 Reading, Antigone Books, Tucson. AZ
2016 Reading, The Arts Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2016 Keynote, “Coming Home to Earth,” Iowa Sierra Club, Ames, IA
2016 Poetry Reading, Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley, CA
2016 Presentation on Death Valley: Painted Light with photographer Stephen Strom at Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ
2016 Poetry Reading & Workshops, Tuolomne Meadows Poetry Festival, Yosemite National Park, CA
2016 Reading, Panels & Workshop, Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, Homer, AK
2016 Workshop, Tutka Bay Retreat, AK
2016 Readings, Lecture & Conferences, Jackson Hole Writers’ Conference, Jackson Hole, WY
2016 Keynote, Earth Day Celebration, “Coming Home to Earth,” The Georgia Review, Athens, GA
2016 Panel & Reading, Associated Writing Programs Annual Meeting, “Tattooed Desert: Tribute to Richard Shelton” and Vermont College of Fine Arts 35th Anniversary Reading, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Reading Tour for Fracture: essays, stories and poems about fracking in America,” Fargo, Grand Forks, Dickinson, Minot and Williston, North Dakota
2016 Keynote, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL
2016 Reading, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Sanibel, FL
2016 Reading, Intermezzo Series, Temple of Music & Art, Tucson, AZ
2015 Poets House, Lecture “Creating the Future: Art and Science in the Era of Climate Change and 2- day Master Class in Poetry, New York City, NY
2015 Reading at Arizona State University Museum in conjunction with Art Exhibition “Trout Fishing
7 in America, Tempe, AZ
2015 Reading and Lecture at Iowa State University, Ames, IA
2015 Distinguished Visiting Writer, Reading and Workshop, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
2015 Reading, The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA
2015 Reading, Southwest Parks, Tucson Festival of Books, Tucson, AZ
2015 Reading and Class Visit, Worcester Polytechnical Institute, Worcester, MA
2015 Keynote, “Creating the Future: Art and Science in the Era of Climate Change,” State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY
2015 Reading for Ecotone 10th Anniversary, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Visiting Faculty, Workshop, Reading, Lecture, Bread Loaf/Orion Environmental Writing Workshop, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
2015 Visiting Faculty, Writers at Work Summer Writers Conference, Salt Lake City, UT
2015 Interview/Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, Bioneers Annual Conference, San Rafael, CA
2015 Reading and Panel, NonFiction Now Conference, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
2015 Lecture “Creating the Future: New Relationships Between Art and Science in the Era of Climate Change,” The Hermitage Artist’s Retreat, Englewood, FL
2014 Reading and Response to Exhibition of Ryo Toyonaga, Jordan Schnitzer Art Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2014 Reading and Talk of “Language of Conservation,” Minnesota State Zoo, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Reading, Bookstore 1, Sarasota, FL
2014 Reading and Author/Editor Panel, Writers Week, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
2014 Two readings (poetry and prose), Smith College, Northampton, MA
2014 Reading, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2014 Reading, Annie Bloom’s Bookstore, Portland, OR
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2014 Reading, Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle, WA
2014 Reading, Orca Books, Olympia, WA
2014 Reading, Sundance Books, Reno, NV
2014 Reading, Changing Hands Bookstore, Phoenix, AZ
2014 Reading, Antigone Books, Tucson, AZ
2014 Reading, University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ
2014 Reading, Grand Manan Public Island, Grand Manan, NB, Canada
2014 Residency, “New Works,” Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2014 Reading, Lecture, Craft Class & Workshop, Bread Loaf/ Orion Environmental Writing Conference, Ripton, VT
2014 Reading, Craft Talk, Residency, Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
2014 Reading, Benefit for Kore Press, La Cocina, Tucson, AZ
2014 Reading/Panel, Tucson Festival of Books, Tucson, AZ
2014 Residency, “Poetic Field Research,” Biosphere2, Tucson, AZ
2014 Two Readings & Panel, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Seattle, WA
2014 Steering Committee, Mellon Environmental Humanities Project, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2014 Panel, Acoustic Ecology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2013 Edwin Way Teale Lecture, “The Lost Woods of Childhood,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Unity College, Reading and Workshop on Science and Art Interactions, Unity, Maine,
Columbia College, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Reading for Exhibition “Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape,” Chicago, IL
American Museum of Natural History, Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomenon, “Red Rovers at Work and Play: Literary and Visual Arts on Mars,” New York
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Workshops, panel, and reading, Wildbranch Nature Writing Workshop, sponsored by Orion Magazine and Sterling College, Craftsbury Common VT
Associated Writing Programs Annual Meeting, Panel: “Gravity and Levity: Responding to Italo Calvino”; offsite reading of Penguin and Ahsahta poets, Aviary Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Brazil Visiting Writers Tour, International Writing Program, University of Iowa supported by U.S. Department of State: over 20 events in 10 days touring 3 cities, Fortaleza, Brasilia, and Sao Paolo, to give readings, collaborative performances, panels and public and private universities, tour museums, etc. http://blog.terrain.org/category/brazilian-notebook/ Poetry/Nonfiction reading and talk, Vermont College MFA Program, Montpelier, VT
Poetry/Nonfiction Reading, Panel, Faculty Workshop on Environmental Writing; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
“Blueprints: Bringing Poetry to Communities,” Panel sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, Associated Writing Programs Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
“Synaptic Scenarios for Ecological Environments,” Panel: Machine Wilderness, International Symposia on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2012, Albuquerque, NM
“Desert-America,” On-Stage Conversation with Rubén Martinez for LA Library Foundation’s ALOUD series, Los Angeles, CA, http://www.lfla.org/event-detail/771/Desert-America-Boom- and-Bust-in-the-New-Old-West
Orion Magazine Retreat, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
2011 Poetry contest judge, terrain.org and Cutthroat
Workshops, panel, and reading, Wildbranch Nature Writing Workshop, sponsored by Orion Magazine and Sterling College, Craftsbury Common VT, June 5 -11
Residency, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown MA, May 22 – June 5
Reading and Panel in conjunction with Cape Farewell Exhibition: with Timothy Morton, Judy Natal, William Fox, Diana Liverman, Columbia College, Chicago IL, April 20
Associated Writing Programs Annual Meeting, featured presenter, “Language of Conservation,” sponsored by Poets House, February 4
2010 Reading, Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley, CA, October 2
Reading, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA, October 1
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Panel on Art and Activism, Moe’s Books, Berkeley, CA, September 30
Reading, The Language of Conservation, Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, AR, September 28
Panel, The Language of Conservation, Arkansas Library Association Annual Conference, Little Rock, AR, September 27
Reading and Workshop, Prague Summer Seminars, Charles University and Western Michigan University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 4 - 17
Residency, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, May 24 – June 30
The Language of Conservation, launch of poetry installation at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, May 14-15
Dragonfly Eyes: Interdisciplinary Retreat for the Long-Term Ecological Reflections Project at Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, April 30 - May 2
Panel on “Western Landscape and Contemporary American Poetry” and Reading for the Poetry Center’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Denver, CO, April 10
Reading for terrain.org at Wynkoop Brewery, Denver, CO, April 8
Reading at Bookery Nook, Denver, CO, April 7
Reading and Nature Writing Workshop, Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, January 8 - 12
2009 Associated Writing Programs, Annual Meeting, Panels: “A Box of Wind: Spirit, Science, and the Nature Writer,” etc. Chicago, IL, February 11 -14
Oregon State University, The Columbia River Quorum: Bringing the Climate Home, Symposium of environmental scientists, moral philosophers, writers and communicators on climate change and intersections of the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, March 5 – 7
Poetry Reading (via SKYPE) for Chicago College Earth Week Celebration, April 20
“The Language of Conservation,” Symposium to launch a national poetry-in-the-zoos project sponsored by Poets House and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, New Orleans, April 28 – May 2
11 Residency, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, May 25 – June 1
Residency, Shotpouch Creek, Spring Creek Project, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, May 25 – June 1
Wildbranch, A Nature Writing Workshop, sponsored by Orion Magazine and Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT, June 7 - 15
Prague Summer Seminars, two-week Poetry Workshop and reading, Charles University and Western Michigan University, Prague, CZ Republic, July 5 - 15
Stonecoast MFA Program, Reading, Lecture, Workshop, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, July 15 – 20
“Education in a Changing Climate,” Conference and Workshop sponsored by Orion Magazine and Unity College, Unity, ME, Visiting Faculty Facilitator with John Elder, July 26 -31
Poetry and Prose Reading, Master Workshop, Southern Utah Festival of Writing, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, September 17 – 18
Poetry Reading, Z-Arts, Springdale Public Library, Springdale, UT, September 19
Poetry Reading for Language of Conservation, Jacksonville Public Library and Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens, October 3
Poetry Reading for Poetry Flash Reading Series, Diesel Bookstore, Oakland, CA, October 11
Poetry reading from Rope for Chin Music Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, December 17
2008 Strategic Planning Retreat, Orion Magazine, Taos, NM, November 5 – 8
Strategic Planning Retreat, H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Long Term Ecological Reflections Project, Corvallis, OR, October 24 - 26
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, “New Works” Faculty Workshop, Deer Isle, ME, September 25 -28
Reading, “Let There Be Night,” Reno Museum of Art, Reno, NV, September 19
Reading, Portland Museum of Art, sponsored by Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Portland, ME, September 5
Prague Summer Seminars, two-week Poetry Workshop and reading, Charles University and Western Michigan University, Prague, CZ Republic, July 13 – 27
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Stonecoast MFA Program, Reading, Lecture, Class, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, July 8 - 9
Sitka Symposium, Lecture, Panel, Reading, The Island Institute, Sitka, AK. June 18 –22.
Associated Writing Programs, Annual Meeting, Panel: “The Future of the Environmental Essay,” New York, NY, February 2
2007 Associated Writing Programs Annual Meeting, Two Panels: Chair, “Tribute to Jim Simmerman;” Panelist, “Wild Classrooms: Experiential Education and Creative Writing,” Atlanta, GA, February 28 – March 3
“Visions and Voices: Writers on Conservation, Wildness, and Nature,” Lecture Series of the Wilderness Institute and Environmental Studies Program at University of Montana, Missoula, MT, an essay/lecture, “Fear and Trembling in the Experimental Forest: Poetry and Science in the Western Cascades,” March 13
Reading and Talk on Green Spirituality, Saint Andrew Group for Ecology, Saint Andrew Christian Church, Olathe, KS, May 5 - 6
Visiting Faculty, “Wildbranch,” Experiential Writing Workshop, Sponsored by Orion Magazine and Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT, June 2 – 9
Writer-in-Residence, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, June 17 – June 29
Leader, Environmental Writing Institute, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, September 12 -16
Reading, Montana Festival of the Book, Missoula, MT, September 15
Invited Participant, Commissioned Essay, Reading, “Toward a New Consciousness: Creating a Society in Harmony With the Natural World,” sponsored by Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Aspen, CO, October 11 – 14
2006 Reading, class visits, panel, St. Olaf College, Northfield MN, April 26 – 2
Reading, class visit, Oregon State University, Reading and Informal Talk, Corvallis, OR, May 13
Public Address, The Old Manse, National Historic Park, “Address for the Re-burial of Sophia and Una Hawthorne,” Concord, MA, June 26
Poetry Readings, Tuolomne Meadows Poetry Festival, Yosemite National Park, CA, August 18 –19
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Reading, Associated Writing Programs Annual Meeting, Vermont College MFA 25th Anniversary Celebration, Austin, TX, March 10
Faculty, Colorado River Convergence of Grassroots Environmental Network, The Orion Society/Canyonlands Field Institute, co-leader with Gary Paul Nabhan, Moab, UT, September 29 – October 1
Northern Arizona University, Center for Sustainable Environments, Reading and Panel, Flagstaff, AZ, October 2
Panel, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, “Poetry and Politics,” chaired by Richard Shelton, Tucson, AZ, October 13
Science and Art Festival, Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Center/Center for Inquiry Poetry Reading, Panel, and Lecture, New York, NY, November 10 –12
2005 Keynote, “Perspectives on Environmental Values,” Symposium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, March 4
“Desert Nights, Rising Stars” Writing Conference (workshop, lecture, two panels, public reading), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 9 – 12
“Poetry and Nature,” “Poetry and Science” (two panel presentations), Association Writing Programs, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, March 30 – April 1
“Lyric Voice as Human Trespass? The Paradox of Environmental Poetry” (panel presentation), Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Biennial Meeting, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, June 21
Poetry Reading, Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, WA, June 23
Prague Summer Seminars (two-week poetry workshop, two-week nonfiction workshop, panel on “Faith and the Literary Imagination,” public reading), Charles University/ Western Michigan University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 1 – 31
“How We Floated Our Boat” (power point presentation and reading), Grand Manan Museum, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick Canada, August 9
Poetry Reading, Watershed Environmental Poetry Workshop, University of California, Berkeley CA, September 24
“Science in the Western American Imagination” (panel presentation), Western Literature Association, Los Angeles, CA, October 21
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Orion Magazine Summit of Environmental Writers, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain, NY, November 11 – 13
2004 Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture, (lecture and panel with Mary Evelyn Tucker) Florida Gulf Coast University. Fort Myers, FL and Center for Sustainability and Environmental Education, Sanibel, FL, March 26 – 28
“Life After the MFA,” (speaker for MFA Graduation), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May 7
“Teaching a Bear to Dance,” (essay/lecture for Nathaniel Hawthorne Bicentennial celebration) Minuteman National Historic Monument, Concord, MA, June 27
Hamline University Summer Writers Conference, Minneapolis, MN, (public reading, poetry writing workshop), July 25 –31
“Rewriting Nature Writing Through the Lens of Culture,” Roundtable with Lauret E. Savoy, Globalization and the Environmental Justice Movement Symposium, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Tucson, AZ, September 25
2003 “Reading, Writing and Restoration” (public reading), Center for Native and Urban Wildlife, Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, AZ, February 27
34th Annual North Dakota Writing Conference, “Art and Science,” (public reading, panels on “Science as Cosmology” and “Poetry and Science”), University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, March 27 – 30
Keynote Address, Second Annual Conference, Arizona Parks and Recreation Association, “The Evolution of Open Space: Arizona in Action,” Tempe, AZ, April 10
63rd Indiana University Writers Conference (nonfiction workshop), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, June 22 – 27
Canyonlands Writers’ River Trip (writing workshop), Canyonlands Field Institute, Moab, UT, July 3 – 9
Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing (poetry workshop), Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ, July 28 – August 2
Taos Summer Writers Conference (travel writing workshop), University of New Mexico, Taos, NM, July 12 – 18
15 “Tensions of Change,” Residency (readings, lectures, class visits, faculty colloquium), Pennsylvania State University, sponsored by Department of English/Creative Writing, Women’s Studies, Landscape Architecture, and Rock Ethics Institute, College Park, PA, September 6 – 13
“The Legacy of Place” (reading of prose and poetry), Center for Sustainable Environments, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, October 5
“The Genius of Place” (writing workshop and residency), Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR, October 20 - 26
Fifth Annual Nature Writing Workshop, North Cascades Institute, (lecture, reading and poetry workshop), Winthrop, WA, October 28 - 31
2002 Visiting Lecturer, Institute of North American Studies, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Keynote address at national symposium, “Teaching for the Environment in Higher Education,” Chewonki Foundation, Wiscasset, ME
Visiting Poet at The Hutchinson School, Memphis, TN
Visiting Writer by Teleconference for course taught by Elizabeth MacKenzie and Richard Nelson, University of Alaska/Southeast, Sitka, AK
Tour leader/lecturer on monarch butterflies and Mesoamerican poetry, “A Migration of Monarchs,” tour of natural and cultural sites, to benefit Kore Press of Tucson, Michoacán, Mexico
2001 Teaching one-week workshop, poetry reading and lecture at “Writers at Work” Conference, Salt Lake City, UT
Keynote Address on the poetry of W. S. Merwin at John Hay Award Ceremony and Colloquium sponsored by the Orion Society and held in Hana, HI
Reading, Chocolate Church Art Gallery, “The Culture of Nature,” reading with Scott Russell Sanders and workshop for elementary school, Bath, ME
“The Poetics of Space,” invited presentation at international conference, “The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomenon,” sponsored by Vatican Observatory, Steward Observatory and Palermo Observatory, Palermo, Italy
Panelist and reader, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, biannual national conference, panelist on “Spirit, Culture and the Wild” and reading on “Voicing the Wild Inside,” Flagstaff, AZ
2000 Keynote Address on Mexican poet Homero Aridjis at John Hay Award Ceremony and
16 Colloquium sponsored by the Orion Society and held in Zitacuaro, Mexico
Commissioned poem and reading, “Poetry in the Galleries,” Scottsdale Museum of Art, “America Seen: People and Place,” Scottsdale, AZ
Reading and craft lecture, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Poetry Reading, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Reading and Talk, Montana Wilderness Association, Bozeman, MT
Reading and class visits, University of Southern Utah, Cedar City, UT
Poetry Reading, Z-Arts, Zion, UT
1999 “Art of the Wild” one-week poetry workshop sponsored by University of California at Davis and held at Squaw Valley, CA
Prague Summer Seminars, two-week poetry workshop, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Reading, Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park , CA
Participant in colloquium on the work of Peter Matthiessen at John Hay Award Ceremony and Colloquium sponsored by the Orion Society and held in Sagaponack, NY
Reading, colloquium on literature and science, and class visits, University of South Carolina, Lancaster, SC
Reading and panel, Louisiana State University, “A Gathering of Poets,” Baton Rouge, LA
Reading and class visits, Brown College of University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Reading and panel, “Intersection: Science and the Arts,” DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Weekend workshop, Desert Writers Workshop, Canyonlands Field Institute, Moab, UT
Distinguished Annual Lecture, “Forty Acres and a Rattlesnake: Living in the New Wild West,” Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Colloquium Leader for Orion Society’s “Fire and Grit” Conference, Sheperdstown, WVA
1998 “Art of the Wild” one-week poetry workshop sponsored by University of California at Davis and held at Squaw Valley, CA
17 Reading, “A Naturalist’s Grand Manan,” Grand Manan Museum, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada
Reading and class visit, The Guild Complex, Chicago, IL
Reading at Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
Reading at 23rd Avenue Books, Portland, OR
Panel for National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Annual Convention, Portland, OR1998
Reading, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Reading, panel and class visit, “The Forgotten Language Tour,” sponsored by the Orion Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Reading and lecture, Radford University, Radford, VA
Readings, panels and class visits, “The Forgotten Language Tour,” sponsored by the Orion Society in collaboration with the Annual Convention of the Society for Ecological Restoration at University of Texas at Austin, with ancillary readings and teaching at Rice University and University of Houston, Austin and Houston, TX
Reading and class visits, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT
Reading and class visit, Prescott and Yavapai Colleges, Prescott, AZ
Weekend workshop, Desert Writers Workshop, Canyonlands Field Institute, Moab, UT
Discussion leader on “Poetry And Activism” in the work of Gary Snyder at John Hay Award Ceremony and Colloquium sponsored by the Orion Society and held in Nevada City, CA
Keynote address and reading, PRISM Symposium/Environmental Conference, Moloka’i Middle School, Moloka’i, HI
Keynote address and reading, “Watchable Wildlife Conference,” Florida Fish and Game Commission, Cocoa Beach, FL
Panel, Great Salt Lake Book Festival, Salt Lake City, UT
Local/State (2013 – 2016 included in above):
2012 Reading for Sonora Review fund raiser, Sparkroot, Tucson, AZ
Reading for book launch of Water/Ground, Confluencenter project, Playground, Tucson, AZ
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Tucson Festival of Books, Panel: “Layers of Knowing” with Heid Erdrich, and Ofelia Zepeda, moderator Gail Browne
Poetic Inventory Reading (group reading), University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ
Climate Adaptation Futures Conference, Panel: “Poems, Prose, Painting, Pictures: the planet: the arts as climate adaptation?” University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
“Technological Sublime” Panel, Moderator: opening event for year-long departmental Convergences theme, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
“A Connecticut Yankee in the Sonoran Desert: Confessions of a Transplant,” (talk/essay) 4th Annual My Arizona Lecture, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, http://geography.arizona.edu/content/4th-annual-my-arizona-lecture
2011 Reading, Literary Southwest, Yavapai College, Prescott AZ, September 23
Reading with Cybele Knowles, “Other Voices Reading Series,” Antigone Books, Tucson AZ, May 13
Reading, Superstition Review, ASU, Tempe AZ, April 13
Keynote, “Get Real! Why We Love Nonfiction Now,” and workshops, “The Nonfiction Toolkit,” Cochise Writing Celebration, Cochise College, Sierra Vista AZ, March 25 - 26
Panels and presentations, “Writing Spaces,” “Idea Intensive,” and “Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril,” Tucson Writers Festival, Tucson AZ, March 3 -4
Reading and Book Launch, Wildbranch Anthology, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ, February 20
Reading, Patagonia Writers Round-Up, Patagonia Library, Patagonia, AZ, February
Reading, Steve Orlen Memorial, UA Poetry Center, January 22
2010 UA Honors Convocation Panel with Chris Impey and Lyn Nadell, “What Does It Mean to be Human?” October 9
Poetry Reading, “Bat Night Booster,” Rillito River Project, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, August 26
Long-Term Ecological Reflections Planning Retreat, Desert Lab, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, August 17
19 UA Water Resources Research Center, Conference Panel, “Creating Environmental Leadership in a Time of Change,” June 9
UA/CLAS, Distinguished Lecture Series, “To See Beyond Earth’s Noise: New Intersections between Art and Science,” Arizona Inn, Tucson, March 25
Reading, Southwest Writers, Singing Wind Bookstore, Benson, AZ, February 28
Reading, It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Break-up and Divorce (anthology), Antigone Books, Tucson, February 26
Patagonia Writer’s Round-Up, Patagonia Public Library, Patagonia, AZ, February 13
Pima Community College Writing Conference, Workshop, Tucson, AZ, January 16
2009 UA Bookstore, Reading from Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark, ed. Paul Bogard, February 5
UA/COH Colloquium Series, Poetry reading from Rope, February 25
UA Medical Humanities Program, Reading and Talk: “The Endangered Voice: Writing and
Reflection in the Hospital,” March 4
Reading and Discussion for Tucson Book Festival, UA campus, March 14
Reading for UA Foundation President’s Club, UA Poetry Center, March 24
Prose Reading, Notes from the Gulf, sponsored by the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO), UA Poetry Center, April 21
Reading for UA Honors College Lunch Series, “White Gloves” series on memory and writing, September 9
Lecture for UA Poetry Center, “Baba Yaga, Demeter, and the Drunken Mother: Myth, Metaphor & Science at the End of the World,” Kick-off for Art and Ecology Series, September 10
Poetry Reading from Rope, with Boyer Rickel and Pamela Uschuk, Antigone Books, Tucson, AZ, October 16
Poetry Reading in collaboration with slide talk by Lucinda Bliss for UA Poetry Center, November 5
2008 Reading for You Are Here, UA Department of Geography, UA Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ.,
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Veteran’s Day Reading, Kore Press, Main Library Plaza, Tucson, AZ, November 11
Book Discussion Group (on John McPhee), Bisbee Public Library, Bisbee, AZ, April 16
Reading, Jeremy Ingalls: Selected Poems, UA Poetry Center, Tucson, AZ, March 15
2007 University of Arizona Poetry Center Reading for Dedication Ceremony and Housewarming Festival, October 13- 14, 2007
Humanities Seminar, “Poetry and Poetics,” October 2 – December 4, 2007
Local Authors Panel, Nanani Public Library, Tucson, AZ, March 15, 2007
2006 Reading, University of Arizona Poetry Center Benefit with Richard Shelton, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Singing Wind Bookstore, Benson, AZ, February 5, 2006
Guest Lecture University of Arizona Poetry Center, “Poetry and The Power of Place,” hosted by Quincie Douglas Library, Tucson, AZ, March 30, 2006
2005 Reading for UA Poetry Center Reading Series, Tucson, AZ
Reading for Antigone Books, Tucson, AZ
Reading for Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Lecture for UA College of Architecture Lecture Series
2004 Reading for Tucson Literacy Coalition, El Rio Neighborhood Center, Tucson, AZ
Reading for CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry, Tucson, AZ Reading for Kore Press Benefit, Tucson, AZ
Reading for “Works-in-Progress,” Biblio, Tucson, AZ
2003 Reading for “Building Academic Community” series, Faculty Fellows, UA, Tucson, AZ
Keynote for Arizona Open Space Annual Meeting, AZ Parks and Recreation, Tempe, AZ
Reading for Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, AZ
Reading for Kore Press Benefit, Tucson, AZ
Reading for Center for Sustainable Environments, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff,
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Reading for “River of Words” Awards, Tucson Children’s Museum, Tucson, AZ
Reading on Poetry and Healing for Canyon Ranch, Tucson, AZ
Reading for Poets Against the War, Tucson, AZ
2002 Reading for National Poetry Month at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Tucson, AZ
Reading for National Poetry Month at UA Library, Tucson, AZ
Reading for Arizona Book Festival, Women on Place, Phoenix, AZ
Reading at Dinnerware Gallery for Central Arts Collective, Tucson, AZ
Reading/talk for Grace St. Paul Episcopal Church senior program, Tucson, AZ
Reading/talk for “The Saddlebrook Nerds,” Saddlebrook, AZ
2001 Northern Arizona Book Festival, poetry reading, panel, visit to local charter high school and radio reading/interview, Flagstaff, AZ
Judge in Creative Nonfiction for Maricopa Community Colleges Creative Writing Competition, Maricopa County, AZ
Panelist for “Writer’s Forum on Writing as Activism” sponsored by UA Press, Tucson, AZ
Benefit Reading for Kore Press at Barrio Grill, Tucson, AZ
Keynote address and workshop, Cochise Community Creative Writing Celebration, keynote address on “Poetry and the Spirit of Place” and workshop on “Poetry and Science: Singing our Knowledge Into the World,” University of Arizona, Sierra Vista, AZ
Visiting Writer, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Nature Panel, Chandler, AZ
2000 Poetry Reading, Tucson Botanical Gardens, sponsored by Poetry in the Garden Series and Writing Works, Extended University, UA
Poetry Reading with Richard Shelton and Gary Paul Nabhan, “Writers Rally Around the Ironwood Tree,” cosponsored by the Department of English, Poetry Center, Tucson Audubon Society and Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (Pima County), UA
Nonfiction Reading, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Tucson, AZ
22 Reading and Exhibition, “Anatomy of Desire,” at Hazmat/MOCA Gallery, with Lucinda Bliss to celebrate publication of chapbook by Kore Press, Tucson, AZ
Gallery Talk for UA Museum of Art, “Poetry and the Art of the Book,” for exhibition “Women of the Book,” UA
Panelist for “Art at the Turn of the Millennium,” UA Center for Creative Photography, UA
Reading and exhibition, UA Student Union, Arizona Gallery, “Anatomy of Desire,” collaborative art and text project with Lucinda Bliss, UA
Panelist for UA Press sponsored “Writer’s Forum on Writing as Activism” at Raging Sage Coffee Roasters, Tucson, AZ
Benefit Reading for Kore Press at Barrio Grill, Tucson, AZ
Poetry Reading for Kore Press at Hazmat/MOCA, Tucson, AZ
1999 Reading, Marana Junior Career Day, Marana, AZ
Reading, WomanSpeak, Tucson, AZ
Reading, National Poetry Month, Tucson High Magnet School, Tucson, AZ
Reading, National Poetry Month, Borders Books, Tucson, AZ
Reading for program on “Migratory Pollinators and Their Corridors” at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ
1998 Reading, UA College of Humanities Honors Convocation, UA
Reading (spring & fall), Antigone Books, Tucson, AZ
Benefit Reading, Orts Dance Company, Tucson, AZ
Talk for Docent Program on “Art and Spirituality,” UA Museum of Art, UA
Reading for “Love of Reading Week,” Tucson High Magnet School, Tucson, AZ
Reading for “Building Academic Community,” the UA Colloquium Series, UA
Reading for Premier Issue of You are Here: Interdisciplinary Literary Journal, UA Department of Geography, Tucson, AZ
Reading for “Family Writes Project,” Arizona Humanities Council, Phoenix, AZ
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Reading for UA College of Humanities/College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Alumni Meeting in San Francisco, CA
Departmental Service: 2020 Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates
2019 Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates
Jury, Writing Program De Fazio Award
Ad Hoc, Promotion and Tenure Committee
Creative Writing ENGL 201 Instructor Supervision
2018 Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates English Department Parliamentarian Ad Hoc, Promotion and Tenure Committee Annul Performance Review Committee Creative Writing ENGL 201 Instructor Supervision
2017 Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates Creative Writing, Ranking and Awards Committee for Nonfiction Students
2016 Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates Creative Writing, Ranking and Awards Committee for Nonfiction Students Supervisor for 201 Instructors (spring)
2015 Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates Creative Writing, Ranking and Awards Committee for Nonfiction Students Supervisor for 201 instructors (spring) Ad Hoc P & T
2014 Director of Creative Writing Program (Spring) Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates Creative Writing, Ranking and Awards Committee for Nonfiction Students
2013 Director Creative Writing Program Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates Creative Writing, Ranking and Awards Committee for Nonfiction Students Undergraduate Scholarship Selection Committee Undergraduate Honors Selection Committee SPFI Search Committee, Poetry candidate
2012 SPFI Search Committee: Poetry, Department of English and Institute of the Environment
24 Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates Creative Writing, Ranking and Awards Committee for Nonfiction Students Banned Books Event Reading, Organizing Committee New Oriental School Presentation Ruth Gardner Awards Selection Undergraduate Scholarship Committee Undergraduate Honors Selection Committee Moderator for Convergences Opening Panel Weekend Field Trip to Brown’s Canyon for MFA Students
2003 – 2011 Creative Writing Program, Selection Committee for Nonfiction Candidates Creative Writing, Ranking and Awards Committee for Nonfiction Students
2010 Acting Head, Department of English
2008 Chair, Search Committee, Creative Writing Nonfiction and Fiction Faculty Positions Member, English Department Council (spring) Member, Task Force on Department Salaries, English Department (fall) Faculty/Student Interaction Grant for MFA trip to Bisbee (wrote grant, organized overnight field trip)
2007 Chair, Search Committee, Creative Writing Nonfiction Faculty Position Member, Search Committee, Head, Department of English Course Sequence and Guidelines for the Creative Writing Major: wrote revision of nonfiction guidelines Member, English Department Council English Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, two-year term Chair, English Department Promotion and Tenure Committee (fall 2207) Reipe-Warnock Selection Committee
2006 Chair, Search Committee, Creative Writing Nonfiction Position (search cancelled) Member, English Department Council English Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, two-year term
2005 Chair, Search Committee, Creative Writing Nonfiction (search cancelled) Poetry Judge, Undergraduate awards
2004 Academic Program Review Resources Subcommittee and Creative Writing Subcommittee
2003 English Department Council, spring semester
College & University: 2019-2020 Regents and Distinguished Professors, leadership “Gang of Five”
25 2017-2020 Poetry Center Development Council
2018-2019 University Search Committee, Provost
2018 & 2019 Graduate College Panel on Interdisciplinary Writing
2018 Jury, University Distinguished Professor Award and Sherrill Award Poetry Center, Development Council
2016 Steering Committee, Art and Environment Network, Institute of the Environment Poetry Center, Development Committee
2015 Poetry Center, Development Committee Poetry Center, Advisory Committee
2014: Poetry Center Development Committee (spring & fall) Poetry Center Advisory Committee (fall) Faculty Advisory Committee: Institute of the Environment (spring) Faculty Advisory Committee, Confluencenter (spring)
2013 Poetry Center Development Committee (spring & fall) Poetry Center Advisory Committee (fall) Poetry Center Residency Jury (spring) Faculty Advisory Committee: Institute of the Environment Faculty Advisory Committee, Confluencenter
2012 Poetry Center Director, Search Committee (fall 2012 – spring 2013) Poetry Center Development Committee (spring & fall) Poetry Center Advisory Committee (fall) Poetry Center Residency Jury (spring) Faculty Advisory Committee: Institute of the Environment (spring and fall) Faculty Advisory Committee, Confluencenter (fall)
2009 – 2012 Faculty Advisory Committee, Institute of the Environment
2004 – 2008 Steering Committee: “Astrobiology and the Sacred,” four-year grant from Templeton Foundation for interdisciplinary project on the constructive engagement between science and religion, Steward Observatory, Chris Impey, Principal Investigator, Department of Astronomy.
2004 – 2011 Manuscript reviews for University of Arizona Press
26 2008 Reading for “You Are Here,” journal published by Department of Geography Writing Workshop for UA Border Exhibition, La Celebración y el Sufrimiento
2006 Judge, National Poetry Contest, sponsored by “Astrobiology and the Sacred” project American Indian Studies, Promotion and Tenure Review Committee
2004 Search Committee, American Indian Studies Five-year Review Committee, Dean of Honors College Chair, Board of Directors, Orion Magazine, Great Barrington, MA
National: Chair, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2017 Advisory Board, ISLE, Journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, University of Nevada, Reno, NV Advisory Board, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL Advisory Board, Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environment Advisory Board, Prague Summer Seminars, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Advisory Board, Maine Review, literary journal Former Chair, Board of Directors, The Orion Society, publisher of Orion Magazine, Great Barrington, MA
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
2021 “The Bog,” “Views of Nature,” poems, Kenyon Review, March/April 2021
2020 “Letter to 2050,” poem, Scientific American, January 2021
“Territory Drive,” poem, terrain.org, May 2020 https://www.terrain.org/2020/letter-to-america/letter-to-america-deming-2/
2020 “Letter to America-3,” essay, terrain.org, November 2020 https://www.terrain.org/2020/currents/letter-to-america-deming-3/
2020 “Recognitions: In Memory of Bill Kittredge,” Essay Daily, December 2020
2020 “Words to Wood/ Wood to Words,” collaboration with sculptor Susan Lyman, Provincetown Arts, Volume 34, Provincetown, MA, 2019/2020
2019 “The Stone Weirs,” essay, Carbon Copy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
“Two Poems in Memory of Merwin: The Trowel & The Leaf,” Kenyon Review online
“The Paris Notebook,” essay, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voice
27 2018 “A Portrait in Five Portraits,” Meridel Le Sueur Essay, Water~Stone, Hamline University, Minneapolis, MN
“Drag Racing to the End of the World,” (essay), Spill Stories feature, Terrain.org
“Theater of Operations” on Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth, Essay Daily
“Invasive Beauty,” (essay), The Georgia Review, Athens, GA
2017 “Galapagos,” (poem), New England Review
“Driving the Cadillac to Valhalla,” (essay), Arkansas International
“The Gardener’s Creed,” An Island in the Stream: Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Enviromental Culture, Lexington Press
“Umberto Eco and the Absolute Fake,” Essay Daily, www.essaydaily.org
“Foreword,” Frog Mountain Blues (new edition), Charles Bowden, University of Arizona Press
“City of Loves,” (essay), Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays on Healing and Wilderness,” ed. Tom Fleishner, Torrey House Press
2016 “Coming Home to Earth,” The Georgia Review, Summer 2016, p. 312- 324
“The Wall and the Gray Zone: On Borders North and South,’ High Country News, September 19, 2016, Vol. 48. No. 16, p. 6 - 7
“To Understand the Place of Animals,” Interview, Zone 3, Spring 2016, Vol. 31, No. 1
“Castalia,” Under a Warm Green Linden, Green Linden Press
“Resurrection,” Poem-a-Day (online), American Academy of Poets, September 2016
2015 “Questions for a Saguaro” and “What the Desert is Thinking” (poems), spiral orb (online)
“In Praise of a Nameless Place,” “The International Motel,” and Dark Harbour,” (poems) Talking River, Lewis and Clark State College, Lewiston, ID
“Golden Pomegranate” (poem) collaboration with photographer Adela Licona, Edible Baja Arizona, Tucson, AZ
“All Saints” (poem) Zocalo, Tucson, AZ
“Afterlife,” (poem) Shenandoah, The Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
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2014 “The Spotted Hyena,” (essay), Orion, Great Barrington, MA, Sept/Oct, p. 62- 63
“Sacred Pig,” (essay), Eleven Eleven, San Francisco, California College of the Art, Issue 17
“Fool for Life; Three Essays,” The Georgia Review, Athens, GA, Vol. LXVIII, No. 3, Fall, p. 555-569
“The Cheetah Run,” (essay) terrain.org, online journal, fall
“Liberating the Lobster,” (essay) The Rumpus, online journal, November
“The Pony, The Pig, The Horse,” (essay) Ecotone, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, No. 18, Fall, p. 83 -89
“Bad Habits and Good Habitat: A Modest Proposal,” (essay), Center for Humans and Nature , Chicago, IL, online publication, December
“Penguins, John Berger & Bad Noah,” (essay), Essay Daily, online publication, December
“Stairway to Heaven,” (poem), Poem-a-Day, Academy of American Poets online publication, spring
“Morning in the Lung,” (poem), terrain.org, online journal, Fall
“The Drowned Man” and “Provincetown” (poems), The Massachusetts Review
2012 “Chauvet” (poem), Orion, July/August 2012, Vol. 31. No. 4, Great Barrington, MA, p, 45
“Mosquitoes” (poem), American Scientist (print and online at www.americanscientist.org), Vol. 100, No. 3, May/June 2012, Research Triangle Park, NC, p.268
“Some Bugs (poem), Poetry Northwest, Vol. VII, Issue 1, Spring & Summer 2012, The Science Issue, Everett, Washington, p. 21
“Rillito” (poem), Ground/Water: The Art, Design and Science of a Dry River, eds. Ellen McMahon, Ander Monson, Beth Weinstein, Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, p. 05
“The Toothbrush,” “Primordial Soup,” “Reading Palms” (three poems), Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Vol. 12, Issue 1, Winter 2012, Durango, CO, p. 74 -80.
“A New England Childhood” (essay), Companions in Wonder, eds.,Julia Dunlap and Stephen R. Kellert, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, p. 97-106.
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“The World, The Word and The Inevitable Beauty of Change: An Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming” (interview), Todd Davis, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Vol. 14, No.1, 2012, Pennsylvania State University Press, State College, PA, p. 117-130.
Book Review, Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution, by David Rothenberg, Orion, Great Barrington, MA, May/June 2012, Vol. 21, No. 3, p. 74-75
“Genetic Sequence,” “Essay on Intelligence: One,” “Essay on Intelligence: Three” (three poems from The Monarchs and other excerpted prose), Writing Poetry Through the Eyes of Science, Nancy Gorrell, Sheffield UK & Oakville, CT, Equinox, p. 221-4, p. 326-27.
2011-1998 (selected) “A New England Childhood,’ (essay), Chautauqua, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Issue 8, 2011
“The Finback,” Hawk and Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability, Unity College, Unity, ME, Volume 3, 2010
“Culture, Biology, and Emergence,” The Georgia Review, Athens, GA, Spring 2009
“Sestina,” “The Village” (poems), Southwestern American Literature, Vol. 34, No. 2, Spring 2009, p. 83 -85
“Gullwing,” (poem) Orion, Vol. 28, No. 5, September/October 2009, p. 40
“The Propitious Garden of the Plane Image,” “Radiology,” (poems), Eleven Eleven: A Journal of Literature and Art, California College of the Arts, Issue 7, 2009, p. 165 - 166
“Zeus,” “Rope,” “The Lake,” “The Place of Poetry,” (poems), Parthenon West, San Francisco, Issue 6, Fall 2009 : “The Flight” (long poem), Isotope, Winter, 2009
“Brief Encounter on the Savanna” (essay), OnEarth, Natural Resource Defense Council, New York, NY, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 2008, p. 64
“The Web” (poem), Orion Magazine, Volume 26, Number 2, March/April 2007, Great Barrington, NY, p. 33.
Book Review, Findings: Essays on the Natural and Unnatural World by Kathleen Jamie, Orion, September/October, 2007, p. 75.
“Hood River Oyster” (essay), Western Humanities Review, Volume LXI, Number 2, Spring 2007, University of Utah English Department. Salt Lake City, Utah, p. 172 – 174.
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“On Natural Beauty” (essay), “Pegasus in Montana,” Forest Time” (poems), Camas: The Nature of the West, Volume 16, Number 1, Winter 2007/2008, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, p. 10, p. 16 – 19, p. 30.
“Poetry and The Power of Place” (essay), Ecotone: Reimagining Place, Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 2007, The University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC,
“The Rabbit on Mars” (essay) Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, Issue 4.1, Spring/Summer 2006, Utah State University, Logan UT, p. 47
from “A Man With His Dog” (essay excerpt in “Table Talk”), The Threepenny Review, #107, Fall 2006, Berkeley, CA, p. 3
“The Owl, Spotted” (essay), OnEarth, A Publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Volume 28, Number 3, Fall 2006, New York City, NY, p. 32-33
Book Review, The Love of Impermanent Things by Mary Rose O’Reilley, Milkweed Editions, 2006, published in Orion Magazine, Volume 25, No.4, July/August 2006, p.75
“Urban Law” (poem), read by Garrison Keillor on “The Writer’s Almanac,” Minnesota Public Radio/National Public Radio, Minneapolis, MN, January 2, 2006
“The Andrews Forest Quartet” and “On Owl Time” (four poems and essay), published on website of H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest Long Term Ecology Reflections Project, Oregon State University, Western Cascade Range, OR, 2006 http://www.fsl.orst.edu/lter/research/related/writers/template.cfm?next=spr06&topnav=169
“Persephone Speaks” (poem), Kore Press blog, Tucson, AZ http://korepress.blogspot.com/2006/09/alison-deming-continues-conversation.html
“With Animals in Mind,” (7 micro-essays), The Georgia Review, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Fall 2005, Volume LIX, No.3, p.456 – 470.
“Teaching a Bear to Dance: On Writing and the Meaning of Place” (essay), Hunger Mountain Review, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT, Spring 2005, Issue # 6, p. 87-93.
“Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to The Scarlet Letter,” (excerpt from catalogue essay for art exhibition,) Hunger Mountain Review, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT, Spring 2005, Issue #6, p. 94.
“T-Rex” and “Woman,” (micro-essays), Water~Stone, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN, Fall 2005, Volume 8, p. 167 - 172.
From Works and Days (poems), Sleeping Fish, New York, NY, August 2005
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“Disaster” (three poems), Category (limited edition chapbook for survivors of Hurricane Katrina), ed. Morgan Schuldt et al., a zoopo!/poetryfund co-production, Tucson, AZ. 2005. Unpaginated.
“Enculturing Earth,” (keynote address/essay), Conference Proceedings: Teaching for the Environment in Higher Education, Earth Ethics, Washington, D.C.: Center for Respect of Life and Environment, Fall 2003, p. 15 – 20.
“Works and Days, # 1 –8,” (poem excerpt), Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, Tucson, AZ, February 2004, p. 27 – 29.
“With Animals in Mind,” (Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture excerpt, Florida Gulf Coast University), Expressions: WGCU Public Media, Fort Myers, FL, Volume 3, Issue 11, August 2004, p. 18 – 20.
“Walking on Rough Water,” (review of three poetry books), The Women’s Review of Books, Wellesley, MA, Volume XXI, No 10 –11, July 2004, p. 18 – 19.
“Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to The Scarlet Letter,” (catalogue essay for art exhibition,) Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, September 2004, 4 pages (unpaginated)
“Wild Woman of the Woods,” (poem), Water~Stone, Hamline University, Minneapolis, MN, Volume 7, Fall 2004. p. 79 – 81.
“On Sagadahoc Bay,” “Under the Influence of Ironwoods,” poems accepted, Whole Terrain: Reflective Environmental Practice, Antioch New England Graduate Environmental Studies Program, Keene, NH, Volume 12, 2003/2004, p. 20, 38 - 39
“The Enigma We Answer By Living,” poem, Wildsong, The Wilderness Society, Washington, DC, Fall 2003, p. 52
“Matins for Andre Dubus,” poem, Hunger Mountain, Vermont College/Union Institute, Montpelier, VT, Spring 2003, Issue #2, p. 153
“The Changing Place,” “The Charting,” poems, Spork, Tucson, AZ April 2003, p. 717 - 720
“Works and Days, #9 – 27,” “The Old Man,” “The Suicide of Louis Owens,” North Dakota Review, Writers Conference Supplement, March 2003, p. 33 - 41
“Short Treatise on Birds,” a poem sequence in Orion: People and Nature, Summer 2002, p. 19
“The Blackwater,” poem in online journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Philadelphia, http://webdelsol.com/pbq/issues/6667/deming.html, Autumn 2001, Issue 66-67
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“Waking to the World’s Pain,” essay in online feature, Thoughts on America: Writers Respond to Crisis, http://www.oriononline.org/pages/00/sidebars/America/Deming.html, Autumn 2001
“Things To Do Around Grand Manan,” Writing Nature: An Annual of Fine Nature Writing, Brattleboro, Vermont, Summer 1999, Tenth Issue, p. 14
“Getting Beyond Elegy,” essay in The Georgia Review, Volume LIV, Number 2, Summer 2000, p. 259-271
“Crossing Borders with Homero Aridjis,” essay in Orion Afield, Summer 2000, p. 42-43
“Patterns by the Sea,” Islands: An International Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA, December 2000, p. 106-111
“Sacred Hawaii,” Islands: An International Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA, April 1999, p. 86- 97
“Wild Fruit,” “The Naturalists,” poems in Alaska Quarterly Review, University of Alaska/Anchorage, Volume 16/ Numbers 3 & 4, Spring and Summer 1998, p. 150-154
“Animats,” “Arboretum,” “La Paz,” “Ordinary Air,” poems in Hawaii Review, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Volume 21.2, Issue 50, Spring/Summer 1998, p. 171-176
“Remembering Manoa,” essay in You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Volume 1, Number1, Spring/Summer 1998, p. 13
“The Poetry of Place: An Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming,” by Jihyuk Han, Denver: The Bloomsbury Review, Volume 18, Issue 2, March/April 1998, p. 7-8
“The Value of Experience,” essay in Sonora Review, University of Arizona, Issue 35, Spring/Summer 1998, p. 8-14
“Pacific City: Walking the Edge of the Civilized World,” essay in The Georgia Review, Athens, GA, Volume LII/Number 2, Summer 1998, p. 199-206
“The Islands,” essay in The Georgia Review, Athens, GA, Volume LII/Number 3, Fall 1998, p. 447- 460
“Science and Poetry: A View from the Divide,” Creative Nonfiction, Pittsburgh, PA, Number 11, Fall 1998, winner of Bayer Creative Nonfiction Science Writing Award, p. 11-29
Over 100 additional journal publications of poems, essays, reviews and articles 1976 – 1997, including work in Orion, Sierra, Islands, The Georgia Review, Wilderness, Provincetown
33 Arts, Denver Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Nimrod, Hawaii Review, and others.
ANTHOLOGIZED WORKS (selected):
“On Discipline,” essay, Visualizing Nature, ed. Stuart Kestenbaum, Princeton Archite4ctural Press, LLC, Princeton, NJ 2021
“Letter to America,” essay reprint, Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, eds., Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd, and Derek Sheffield, Terrain Publishing/ Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX, 2020
“Desert City/Ocean Home: Five Offerings of Gratitude,” essay, The Nature of Desert Nature, ed. Gary Paul Nabhan, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 2020
“Homeland Security,” poem reprint, Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight, eds., Chris Cokinos and Julie Swarstad Johnson, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 2020
From “The Dioramas,” poem, Fractured Ecologies, ed. Chad Weidner, EyeCorner Press, Agger, Denmark, 2020
“Snapshots for my Daughter,” poem reprint, Rocked by the Waters: Poems of Motherhood, eds., Margaret Hasse and Athena Kildegaard, Nodin Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2020
“The Gardener’s Creed,” poem, An Island in the Stream: Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture, eds., David Taylor, Scott Slovic, and Armando Fernandez Sopiano, Lexington Books, London, England, 2019
“Neil Armstrong’s Heart,” “Dear Moon,” poems, Giant Steps: Fifty Poets on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Beyond, eds., Paul Munden and Shane Strange, Recent Work Press, Canberra, Australia, 2019
“The Pony, the Pig, and the Horse,” essay reprint, Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism, Lookout Books, Wilmington, NC, 2018
Poem 22 from The Monarchs, poem reprint, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, eds. Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan, Scarlet Tanager Books, Oakland, CA, 2018
“Sci-animism,” Glossary Entry, Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene, eds. Linda Russo and Marthe Reed, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2018
“Making Love to You When You’re Far Away,” poem reprint, All We Know of Pleasure: Erotic Poetry by Women, Carolina Wren Press, Durham, NC, 2018
34 Renga Entry, Renga for Obama, ed., Major Jackson, Harvard Review, Cambridge, MA, 2017
“Julian Barnes Brings Light to a Thanatophobe’s Conundrum,” essay reprint, How We Speak to One Another: An Essay Daily Readers, eds. Ander Monson and Craig Reinbold, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2017
“Dear Ben, Dear Denise . . . A Lament and a Praise,” essay, Denise Levertov in Company, ed. Donna. K. Hollenberg, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2017
“City of Loves,” essay, Nature Love Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness, ed. Thomas Fleischner, Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, 2017
“Letter to America,” essay reprint, Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear, ed. Pam Uschuk, Cutthroat, Durango, CO, 2017
“Cartoon,” poem, The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, ed. Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Patricia Smith, University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2017
“Homeland Security,” poem reprint, Fracture: essays, poems, and stories on fracking in America, eds.Taylor Brorby and Stefanie Brook Trout, Ice Cube Press, LLC, North Liberty, Iowa, 2016
“What the Desert is Thinking,” “Questions for a Saguaro,” poems, The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide, eds., Eric Magrane and Chris Cokinos, University of Arizona Press, Tucson AZ, 2016
“The Toothbrush,” poem reprint, The Best of Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Volume 20, Issue 1, Cutthroat, Durango, CO 2016
“The Web,” “Specimens Collected at the Clear Cut,” “Poetry-Science Gratitude Duet with Fred Swanson,” “The Owl, Spotted,” poems and essay, Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest, eds., Nathaniel Brodie, Charles Goodrich, Frederick J. Swanson, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 2016
“The Spotted Hyena,” essay, Best American Science and Nature Writing, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA 2015
“Women Alone,” poem reprint from The Monarchs, It Begins With Our Questions, eds. Paul C. Allen and Claire Peterson, Macmillan Learning, macmillan learning.com, 2015
“A New England Childhood,” essay, Companions in Wonder, ed. Stephen Kellert, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2012
“Attending to the Beautiful Mess of the World,” The Way of Natural History, ed. Thomas Lowe
35 Fleischner, Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX, 2011
“The Feasting,” Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, eds., Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael Nelson, Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX, 2011
“Culture, Biology, and Emergence” (excerpt), American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice, ed. William Reichard, New Village Press, Oakland, CA, 2011
“People, Poetry, Habitat” (Essay commissioned by the Poetry Foundation), Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities, ed. Katherine Coles, Salt Lake City, UT, University of Utah Press and Chicago, IL, the Poetry Foundation, 2011
“Andrews Forest Quintet” (four poems), Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environment and Place-Based Writing, eds. Florence Caplow and Susan Cohen, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 2010
“Field Notes on Communication,” (essay), The Coming Transformation: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities, Stephen Kellert and James Gustave Speth, eds., Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2009, p. 266 - 277
“Short Treatise on Birds” (poem sequence reprinted from Genius Loci), The Poets Guide to the Birds, eds. Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser, Tallahassee, FL, Anhinga Press, 2009, p. 49 -52
“The Enigma We Answer By Living” (poem reprinted from Genius Loci), To The Wilderness, ed. Marion K. Stocking, University of Delaware Press, 2009
“The Monarchs: 20, 43, 44, and 47” (poems reprinted from The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence), It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Breakup and Divorce, The Overlook Press, 2009
“On Natural Beauty” (essay reprinted), Connotations: The Island Institute Journal, The Island Institute, Sitka, AK, 2008, p. 3 – 11
“The Month of Mornings” (nonfiction excerpts), ed. Paul Bogard, Let There Be Night: Testimony of Behalf of the Dark, University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV, 2008, p. 87 – 95
“Owning the Imperatives” (poem), A Voice For Earth: American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter, eds. Peter Blaze Corcoran & A. James Wohlpart, University of Georgia press, 2008, p. 37 - 39
“The Rabbit on Mars” (essay reprinted from Isotope), The Best American Science and Nature Writing, ed. Richard Preston, Houghton Mifflin, Boston/NY, 2007, p. 31 – 33.
“The Edges of the Civilized World” (essay reprinted from Orion), selected by Barry Lopez, The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN, p. 143 – 153.
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“The Monarchs: 58” (poem), Conversation Pieces; Poems That Talk to Other Poems, selected by Kurt Brown and Harold Schechter, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, Knopf, NY, 2007, p.92
“When Time and Place are Lost” (invited essay), Landscape with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place, University of Nebraska Press, 2007, p. 34 – 41.
“In the Territory of Birds” (essay reprint from The Edges of the Civilized World), Landscape with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place, University of Nebraska Press, 2007, p. p.42 – 61.
“Getting Beyond Elegy: Nature, Culture, and Art,” essay from Writing the Sacred Into the Real (Milkweed 2001) and three poems from The Monarchs (LSU 1998) in anthology, What’s Nature Worth? eds. Scott Slovic and Terre Satterfield, Reno, NV: University of Utah Press, forthcoming 2004
“Eve Revisited,” Sisters of the Earth, anthology, ed. Lorraine Anderson, NY: Vintage Books, 2003, p. 384 -5
“Rehearsal Space for War,” Poets for Peace, anthology, ed. Poets For Peace, Tucson, AZ, Spring 2003, p. 17 – 18
“Waking to the World’s Pain,” essay reprinted in September 11th, 2001: American Writers Respond, ed. William Heyen, Silver Spring: MD, Etruscan Press, June 2002, 3 pages in manuscript
“Wolf, Eagle, Bear: An Alaska Notebook,” essay reprinted in Norton Book of Nature Writing, eds. John Elder and Bob Finch, NY: Norton, 2002, p. 937 - 943
“Arboretum,” poem in Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, eds. Virgil Suarez and Ryan G. Van Cleave, Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 2002, p. 56
“The Yaak,” poem in The Roadless Yaak, ed. By Rick Bass, NY: The Lyons Press, 2002, p, 207 - 212
“Canoeing the Salt Marsh,” “Dreamwork with Horses,” poems in The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature, ed. Christopher Merrill, Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 2002, 2 pages in manuscript
“Science and Poetry: A View From the Divide,” essay in The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science, ed. Kurt Brown, Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press, 2001, p. 181-197
“The Rock Fig,” “Driving Through Nature,” poems in Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, ed. Scott Slovic, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2001, p. 26 - 28
37 “Biophilia,” “God,” poems in Poets of the New Century, eds. George Higgerson and Roger Weingarten, Boston: David R.Godine, 2001, p.55 - 58
“The Practice of Humanity,” preface in Learning to Glow: On Living in a Radioactive Landscape, ed., John Bradley, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2000, p. xi - xiii
“Tilden Park,” poem in Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City, ed., Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2000, p.155
“Science and Poetry: A View From The Divide,” essay in A View from the Divide: Creative Nonfiction on Health and Science, ed., Lee Gutkind, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999, p. 11 - 29
“Science,” “18” (from The Monarchs), poems in The Yellow Shoe Poets, ed. George Garrett, Baton Rouge, LSU Press, 1999, p. 45 - 47
“Sanctuary,” poem in Wild Song: Poems of the Natural World, ed. John Daniel, Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998, p. 57
“The Woman Painting Crates,” “Mt. Lemmon, Steward Observatory, 1990,” and 7 poems from The Monarchs, in Verse and Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics, ed. Kurt Brown, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1998, p. 31 – 35, p. 92, p. 176 - 187
“Caffe Trieste,” “Saturday. J's Oyster Bar,” poems in Night Out: Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, eds. Kurt Brown & Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1997, p. 142, p. 210
5 poems from The Monarchs, in Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poetry, eds. Leilani Wright & James Cervantes, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997, p. 73 - 78
“Claiming the Yard,” essay in The Earth at Our Doorstep, San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1996, p. 62 - 65
“How We Did It,” poem in Homemaking: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home, eds., C. Wiley, and F.R. Barnes, New York: Garland, 1996, p.384 - 5
“Science,” poem in Sixty Years of American Poetry, ed., Academy of American Poets, New York: Abrams, 1996, p. 326 - 7
“The Nature of Poetry: Poetry in Nature,” essay in Writing it Down for James: Writers on Life and Craft, Volume 2, ed., Kurt Brown, Boston: Beacon Press, 1995, p. 44 - 57
“Woods Work,” essay in American Nature Writing: A Sierra Club Annual, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995, p. 223 - 237
38 “Caffe Trieste,” poem in Cape Discovery: The Fine Arts Work Center Anthology, ed. Bruce Smith, Sheepmeadow Press, Spring 1994, p.37
Poems # 1- 8 from The Monarchs, Place of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology, ed. David Clarke Burks, The Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1994, p. 315 - 323
“An Island Notebook,” essay in The Pushcart Prize XVIII: Best of the Small Press, ed., Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press, Wainscott, NY, Fall 1993, p. 444 - 460
“Canoeing the Salt Marsh,” “Dreamwork with Horses,” poems in The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature, ed., Christopher Merrill, Peregrine Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1991, p. 36 - 37
“Canoeing the Salt Marsh,” poems # 1 – 4 from The Monarchs, “The Russians,” “Saturday. J's Oyster Bar,” poems in The Eloquent Edge: 15 Maine Women Writers, Acadia Press, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1990, p. 38 - 48
“Science,” “My Intention,” poems in The Uncommon Touch: Poetry and Fiction from the Stanford Writing Program, Stanford University, 1989, p.103 – 105
MEDIA:
2020 Interview, One-Week Critique, #18, with Adam al Sirgany, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAW5UhKu9Hg
2020 Podcast, “Poetry Centered,” University of Arizona Poetry Center, https://alisonhawthornedeming.com/2020/07/new-university-of-arizona-poetry-center-podcast- launches/
2019 Interview, The Writers Forum, with Ralph Black, College of Brockport, State University of New York
2018 Video for Regents Professor Installation, “Listening to the Natural World,” https://uaatwork.arizona.edu/lqp/video-regents-professor-alison-hawthorne-deming
2018 “First Encounter Beach,” Poems from Here, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Maine Public Radio, read by Stuart Kestenbaum
2017 “Island Stars, Poems from Here, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Maine Public Radio, read by Stuart Kestenbaum
2017 Interview, KXCI Program, “Speedway and Swan,” Episode 33, with Susan Briante https://poetry.arizona.edu/blog/speedway-and-swan-episode-33-alison-hawthorne-deming-host- susan-briante
39 2016 “Resurrection,” Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets, August 9, 2016
2012 “Saguaro,” “Questions for a Saguaro” (two poems), Poetic Inventory Project, Spiral Orb, http://spiralorb.net/five
“A Brazilian Notebook,” two week blog (pictures and text) for online journal terrain.org written while on reading tour with the International Writing Program in three Brazilian cities during May 2012. http://blog.terrain.org/category/brazilian-notebook/
“Alison Hawthorne Deming on Donald R. Griffin’s Animal Minds” (blog post), Essay Daily, http://essaydaily.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated- max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=36
“An Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming” by Christopher Adamson, Nashville Review, Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University, December 2012, www.vanderbilt.edu/english/nashville review/archives/6058
“Chauvet” (poem reading), The Creative Brain Series: “To The Best of Our Knowledge,” Wisconsin Public Radio, NPR, October 30, http://ttbook.org/book/creative-brain
“Baba Yaga” (radio essay), for “Arizona Spotlight” with Mark Mclemore on KUAZ radio. radio.azpm.org/p/kuaz-featured/2012/10/24/17605-arizona-spotlight-with-host-mark-mclemore/ - 16k - 2012-10-24
“What Now: Extended interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists addressing the global crisis,” with Ken Rose on KOWS Radio Occidental, 1/09/2012. http://www.pantedmonkey.org/
2011-98 Profile Interview, http://www.examiner.com/poetry-in-national/profile-interview-alison- hawthorne-deming, 2011
Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming, http://www.terrain.org/interview/26/, Fall/Winter 2010
“Pandora on Prozac,” “Specimens Collected at the Clear Cut,” “Glooscap in Wolfville,” (poems) www.terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, No. 24, Fall/Winter 2009. http://www.terrain.org/poetry/24/deming.htm
“A Cup of Poetry,” Interview and reading, Penguin Poets website http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/publishersoffice/radioroom/0909/cop/deming.html#vmi x_media_id=6338383
“The Places Where Art and Science Intersect, Arizona Spotlight, Interview KUAZ, 9/10/2009 http://radio.azpm.org/azspotlight/podcasts/2009/9/4/azspotlight-alison-hawthorne-deming/
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“In The Rhizome Lab,” Poetry Daily, 12/6/2009 http://poems.com/feature.php?date=14585
Reading and Interview (podcast), OnEarth, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York , NY http://www.onearth.org/multimedia/podcast/poet-alison-hawthorne-deming-on-what-nature- teaches-if-we-listen, 2008
Readings from Genius Loci (four poems) read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac, 2005
The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence, CD version, Tucson: Kore Press, Winter 2000
Guest on KUAT-TV “Arizona Illustrated” programs, “Millennium Milestones” and “First Year Forum” hosted by Bill Buckmaster, Tucson, AZ, December 1999
Readings from The Monarchs by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac, Minnesota and National Public Radio, August 9, 1999 and September 27, 1999
Audio Recording, “Alison Hawthorne Deming.” A reading. University of Arizona Poetry Center, November 4, 1998
Video Recording, “Alison Hawthorne Deming: The Monarchs.” Books and Company, program #606. KAET-TV, Tempe, Arizona, April 1998
Video Recording, “Alison Hawthorne Deming.” A reading. San Francisco State University Poetry Center Archives, March 17, 1994
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