Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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)