Award-winning San Antonio poet Kamala Platt reflects on efforts to clear away elder trees at Backenridge Park.
Tag: poetry
VIDEO: Words for Birds 2021
Marisol Cortez Last weekend Deceleration co-hosted the 13th annual Words for Birds, a celebration and cry for protection of winged relatives for National Poetry Month. Historically an in-person reading held out of doors within the beautiful environs of Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, COVID sacked last year’s W4B, which instead became […]
‘Luz At Midnight’: San Antonio’s First Rare-Earth Cli-Fi Love Story
Love, politics, and rare earth mineral mining converge in this South Texas novel. Ten years in the making, San Anto’s first rare-earth cli-fi love story (we’d wager) has just been published by the superchingón FlowerSong Press and is ready for heavy reading. Rooted in the landscapes and issues Deceleration aspires […]
Words for Birds 2020: Poetics for Pandemics
We are excited to present Deceleration’s first foray into DIY publishing—an avian-themed poetry zine called Words for Birds 2020: Poetics for Pandemics. Read it here … with two bonus features for our online readers. Marisol Cortez When the pandemic nixed Words for Birds, an annual workshop and reading held at […]
TAKE ACTION: ‘Words for Birds’ Writing Workshop
Bird is still the word! Join us for the 12th annual Words For Birds, a two-part event celebrating all things avian for National Poetry Month. While the current public health emergency prevents our usual in-person reading at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, this year’s Words for Birds reading will continue in […]
EP01: Deceleration’s Inaugural Broadcast for Covid-19 Era
Deceleration’s Inaugural Live Stream for the Covid-19 era in San Antonio includes a conversation with Brian Gordon about the radical possibilities of growing plants … Pandemic poetry w/ Marisol Cortez … and a call to action to stand with migrant families being held at the South Texas Family Residential Center […]
Poetry as Citizen Science
Environmental writer Mobi Warren reflects on the science and pedagogy of nature poetry. EDITOR’S NOTE: In the fall of 2019, environmental writer Mobi Warren taught a community-based writing class called “The Poet as Citizen Scientist.” This essay—originally published in the February 2020 issue of Voices de la Luna, a special […]
TAKE ACTION: ‘The Music of Her Rivers’
“I speak for this river carrying the stillborn, the dying — this water that quenches the thirst of bosque, mergansers, warblers, and ash-throated flycatchers.” At Deceleration, we’re big fans of poetry that connects people to the land, to the air, to the spirits of our deeply intertwined families, this dance […]