Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of five books of poetry and four books of nonfiction, including Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit, published in 2014. She received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her latest poetry book Stairway to Heaven along with her collaboration with photographer Stephen Strom, Death Valley: Painted Light appeared in 2017.
Nature’s Nature
Mar/Apr 2021
Views of Nature
After Alexander von Humboldt Von Humboldt wrote that the ancient mind didn’t much care for nature — the thing itself instead filling sea and land with symbols of human power and fear […]
Nature’s Nature
Mar/Apr 2021
The Bog
The pond flooded over its banks when winter storms heaped gravel blocking its outlet to the sea. Peat-rich water rose to drown sheep laurel, Labrador tea, pitcher plants, dragon’s mouth […]
In Memoriam
Two Poems in Memory of Merwin
The Trowel One day in the city there was someone on my porch who had never been there before someone who had written against war and for rain in the […]