natural science

In this performance, Alison Hawthorne Deming reads both poetry and prose, including excerpts from a book published the year of this reading, The Edges of the Civilized World, and poems from a collection that would be published seven years later, Genius Loci.

Ruth Stone reads extensively from In an Iridescent Time (1959) and Topoography and Other Poems (1971); she also reads some unpublished poems.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil reads poems from At the Drive-In Volcano (2007), Lucky Fish (2011), and her forthcoming collection Oceanic (2018).

Alison Hawthorne Deming reads poems focused on animals, humans' relationship with the natural world, and the political landscape of post-2016 America. These poems come from The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection (2025), edited by Deming, and her sixth collection of poetry, Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower (2025). This reading was originally given with Sally Ball.