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.
by Katherine Larson, read by Tyler Meier
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Limón, Ada. The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection. Edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming. North Adams: Storey Publishing, 2025, p. 6.
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Diaz, Jose Hernandez. The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection. Edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming. North Adams: Storey Publishing, 2025, p. 62.
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Doty, Mark. The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection. Edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming. North Adams: Storey Publishing, 2025, p. 95.
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Francis, Vievee. The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection. Edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming. North Adams: Storey Publishing, 2025, p. 145.
McDonnell, Anne Haven. The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection. Edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming. North Adams: Storey Publishing, 2025, p. 157.
Section 4 of the poem "Galapagos."
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2025.
Section 9 of the poem "Galapagos"; differs slightly from published version.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2025.
Section 1 of "Two Poems in Memory of Merwin"; differs slightly from published version.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2025.
Section 2 from the poem "Field Studies"; differs slightly from published version.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2025.
Section 4 of the poem "Field Studies."
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2025.
Differs slightly from published version.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2025.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2025.
Differs slightly from published version.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2025.
Section 5 of the poem "The Excavations."
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2025.
