I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Teachers have been heroes to me, as well as artists and writers, and I'm honored to be among their ranks. There is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm interested in thinking about how are we contributing to the culture, what we can write that might help us deepen the… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us -… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
