Arts & Letters - Deceleration

'Every Bombed Village'— Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review

Writers and artists from San Antonio to Quezon City respond to James Baldwin's historic words about 'every bombed village' being our own hometowns as we witness US-backed bombs fall on Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Venezuela, and so many other places.

By Shelley Ettinger and Marisol Cortez

/ 28 May 2026

'Every Bombed Village'— Deceleration's Spring 2026 Creative Review

'Wherever the Bomb Falls'

Filipina writer Avril Shakira Villar traces a line from James Baldwin's statement on the Vietnam War—'every bombed village is my hometown'—to the Tagalog word 'damay,' which 'gestures toward ... the willingness to be present in someone else's pain rather than at a comfortable remove from it.'

By Avril Shakira Villar

/ 28 May 2026

Smash Fascism While Blasting These 10 Texas Tunes

Bad Bunny and the Boss aren't the only ones decrying federal abuses. The resistance in Texas is remarkably fertile, as these critical artists prove out.

By James Courtney

/ 25 Feb 2026

Smash Fascism While Blasting These 10 Texas Tunes

‘Sea of Creatures’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review

In Deceleration's Winter 2026 Creative Review, writers and artists from our bioregion and beyond—from Boca Chica at Texas’s tip to the migratory flyways that link Eagle and Condor—share their love, grief, and rage for the fragility of our oceans and the coral reefs they shelter.

By Deceleration Staff

/ 3 Feb 2026

‘Sea of Creatures’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review

Jim LaVilla-Havelin's New Works Compel Us to Consider Sparse Land In a Hard Time

Writer James R. Dennis reviews the work of a poet of the natural world as he gleans both beauty and lessons from the 'weathered, scruffy landscape' of Atascosa County, Texas.

By James R. Dennis

/ 10 Dec 2025

Jim LaVilla-Havelin's New Works Compel Us to Consider Sparse Land In a Hard Time

New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat

Delaney Nolan’s distinctively American novel Happy Bad asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? An excerpt from the novel and Q&A with author Delaney Nolan explores.

By Frances Madeson

/ 7 Nov 2025

New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat

REVIEW: ‘We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System’ Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed

Jonathan Rosenblum’s new movement history—and valuable primer in municipalist solutions—delivers insight and inspiration from successes in Seattle, where people have forced local government to put the needs of people and planet before profits.

By Frances Madeson

/ 24 Sep 2025

REVIEW: ‘We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System’ Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed

‘Vanishing Ice, Melting ICE’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review

Deceleration’s first quarterly creative review taps into deep wells of community talent responding to the vanishing ice of warming seas and recent ICE vanishings of our family, friends, and neighbors.

By Deceleration Staff

/ 29 Aug 2025

‘Vanishing Ice, Melting ICE’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review

ASLE 2025: Can Poetry Save the World from Extractivist Plunder and Climate Violence?

These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking.

By Carolina Hinojosa

/ 15 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: Can Poetry Save the World from Extractivist Plunder and Climate Violence?

ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’

Amid rising attacks on trans people, ideas from ‘queer ecology’ can light the way toward an alternative environmental politics capable of honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beside and beyond our waterways.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 14 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’

ASLE 2025: As Attacks on Unhoused Increase, Kaia Sand Archives Alternatives to Criminalization of ‘Unwanted Persons’

In her plenary presentation at last month’s gathering of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Kaia Sand detailed the many ways we construct homeless people as “unwanted persons,” but also the creativity embodied in alternative first responder systems that enact “care work

By Michelle Yates

/ 13 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: As Attacks on Unhoused Increase, Kaia Sand Archives Alternatives to Criminalization of ‘Unwanted Persons’

ASLE 2025: ‘Collective Atmospheres’ and the Significance of Feeling the World

From her many decades working to make space for thinking at the intersections of nature, culture, and justice, scholar-‘artivist’ Kamala Platt reflects on highlights from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment’s biennial gathering last month.

By Kamala Platt

/ 13 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: ‘Collective Atmospheres’ and the Significance of Feeling the World