Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Alison Hawthorne Deming

Born: 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Alison Hawthorne Deming is an American poet, essayist and teacher, currently Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Known for:
- Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit (2014)
- Science and Other Poems (1994)
- Writing the sacred into the real (2001)
- The edges of the civilized world (1998)
- The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (1997)