University of Arizona Creative Writing Program faculty members Alison Hawthorne Deming and Susan Briante read from their work. After the reading, there will be a short Q&A session and book signing.
Alison Hawthorne Deming was born and grew up in Connecticut. She is the author of Science and Other Poems, winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence, Genius Loci and Rope; and four nonfiction books Temporary Homelands, The Edges of the Civilized World (finalist for the PEN Center West Award), Writing the Sacred Into the Real and, out in 2014, Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit. She edited Poetry of the American West: A Columbia Anthology and coedited with Lauret E. Savoy The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. Deming’s small press works include two limited edition chapbooks from Kore Press, Girls in the Jungle: What Does It Take For a Woman to Survive in the Arts and Anatomy of Desire: The Daughter/Mother Sessions, a collaboration with her daughter, the artist Lucinda Bliss.
Susan Briante is the author of two books of poetry: Utopia Minus (Ahsahta Press, 2011) and Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007). Of her most recent collection, Publisher’s Weekly writes, “This book finds an urgent language for the world in which we live.” She is finishing work on a new collection of poems, The Market Wonders, inspired by the current economic crisis.