Publications — Danita Dodson

Publications

Danita Dodson is the co-editor of the acclaimed Teachers Teaching Nonviolence, published by DIO Press in 2020. Her first collection of poetry, Trailing the Azimuth, was published in 2021 by Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. The author of critical scholarship, Danita Dodson has also been published in several literary journals, including an interview with Margaret Atwood and scholarship on The Handmaid’s Tale.

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Poems

“Hill Woman in Defiance,” “She Is Her Own,” “Inheritance,” and “What Else Do I Need?”

Rooted, Resilient, Rising: Women Growing Food Across the Mountains. Forthcoming in 2026.

“To Christine”

White Winged Doves: The Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology. Forthcoming May 2026.

“Invasives”

Writers Resist. Forthcoming in Spring 2026.

“Appalachia Rewired” and “Appalachian Salt”

Mountain Movement Magazine. Forthcoming in October 2025.

“Lessons from Honeybees”

Braided Way Magazine. 2 September 2025.

“Quilt Chest” and “Upkeeping”

Untelling, the literary and arts magazine by Hindman Settlement School. June 2025.

“Peace Growers”

Sunflowers Rising: Peace Poems Anthology. May 2025.

“Pax di Assisi”

Amethyst Review, an online literary magazine. Forthcoming 17 May 2025.

“Celandine Celebration”

The Zest of the Lemon, an anthology. April 2025.

“Summer Paradox”

Troublesome Rising Companion Website. March 2025.

“Family Flock”

The Bluebird Word, an online literary magazine. 23 February 2025.

“The Mother Tree and Me” and “Truthteller”

Women Speak, Volume 10, an anthology of the Women of Appalachia Project. 2024.

“Fledgling” and “This Woman Wild”

Bronze Bird Review, an anthology. 10 November 2024.

“In the Sculpted Land of Tufa”

Thin Places and Sacred Space, an anthology. 10 September 2024.

“Bits and Pieces”(Best of the Fest grand-prize winner) and “O, Rhododendron Soul”

Tennessee Voices Anthology 2023-2024. 16 August 2024.

“Observing the Remains,”“Airing the Quilts,” and “The New Corn Ripples”

Salvation South, an online Southern culture magazine. 10 March 2024.

“My First Memory of Death” and “Hiraeth”

Jarfly, an online poetry magazine. Issue Six. Winter 2023.

“A Pew in the Forest”

Amethyst Review, an online literary magazine. 29 December 2023.

“Zikr”

Braided Way, an online literary magazine. 11 December 2023.

“The Upstairs Rooms”

Heimat Review, an online literary magazine. 15 October 2023.

“Heaven As Highway 33”

Heimat Review, an online magazine. 15 October 2023.

“The Place I Was Born”

Vardy Voice, Vardy Community Historical Society. Vol. 22, issue 2. March-April 2023.

“Appalachian Action Verb”

Salvation South, an online Southern culture magazine. 14 January 2023.

“Dogwood Ahimsa”

Ahimsa Center Newsletter, Cal Poly Pomona. 2022.

Stories

“Soldier’s Song”

Appalachia Bare, March 2025.

Literary scholarship

“The Impact of Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Utopianism on Margaret Atwood’s Writing.”

Women’s Issues in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Ed. David E. Nelson. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2012. pp. 28-25.

'We lived in the blank white spaces': Rewriting the Paradigm of Denial in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.”

Critical Insights: The Handmaid's Tale, Ed. J. Brooks Bouson. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010.

“An Interview with Margaret Atwood.”

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 38:2, 96-104, 1997.

'We lived in the blank white spaces': Rewriting the Paradigm of Denial in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.”

Utopian Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1997), pp. 66-86. Published by Penn State University Press.

“The Cycle of Utopia in Buchi Emecheta's "The Rape of Shavi."

Obsidian II, Vol. 11, No. 1/2 (1996), pp. 3-20. Published by Illinois State University Press.

Nonviolence education publications

“Fostering Nonviolence Education: The Poetic Language of the Mother Tree.”

Nonviolence Education as Praxis. Forthcoming in 2025.

“The Poetry of Ahimsa.”

Ahimsa Center Newsletter, 2022, p. 10

“Mindful Teaching and Receptivity.”

Ahimsa Center Newsletter, 2016-2017, pp. 9-10

“‘I will give you a talisman’: Teaching Students to Contemplate Suffering.”

Ahimsa Center Newsletter, 2015-2016, p. 10.

“Where Gandhi & Mandela Are Palpable Parts of Our Present.”

India Journal, 27 April 2015.