Initiated in 1991, Haystack's Monograph Series provides a forum for writers of varied perspectives to reflect on the idea of craft. Now totaling 23 in the series, monographs cover a range of topics. The Haystack Reader, an anthology of monographs #1-23 published by Haystack and the University of Maine Press is now available, and includes monographs by Alison Hawthorne Deming, Barbara Hurd, David Abram, and Kim Stafford.

Moral Ground brings together the testimony of over eighty visionaries—theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers—to present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibility to our planet. In the face of environmental degradation and global climate change, scientific knowledge alone does not tell us what we ought to do. The missing premise of the argument and much-needed center piece in the debate to date has been the need for ethical values, moral guidance, and principled reasons for doing the right thing for our planet, its animals, its plants, and its people.

Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environmental, and Place-based Writing is a powerful collection of mostly unpublished essays and poetry by both prominent American environmental writers and exciting new voices. The poetry and essays by more than fifty contributors — including Alison Hawthorne Deming, Janisse Ray, Edward Hoagland, and Scott Russell Sanders — offer the reader glimpses into places as diverse as a forest in West Africa, the moors of Ireland, the canyons of the Sonoran desert mountains, and the fields of New England, and they reflect the varied perspectives of field biologists, hunters, farmers, environmental educators, wilderness guides, academics, writers, and artists.

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