if Jim hadn't prodded me i may never have launched this book officially. still haven't launched I Call on the Earth--the pandemic interrupted things. very happy to be reading alongside Jim's new Thoreau chapbook, tho, and our friend James's forthcoming book on Thoreau and abolition.

listening to fronterizx beats getting my thoughts in order, loving it panchaxbeatz.bandcamp.com/album/raices...

read my homie’s elegant story

South TX friends and fam--gonna be at UTRGV (@utrgvnewsroom.bsky.social) next Monday for a writing workshop/reading from The Bird Church, and on Tuesday moderating a talk by musician/sound studies scholar @jonathanjleal.bsky.social. see flyer for times and location. come by if you're around <3

earlier this eve at traffic jam o'clock, drove past that exact lower stretch of I-10 where REM shot their video for "everybody hurts," and for a moment out the window i felt like i was watching it on MTV www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOi...

an elegy for our friend and comrade jack elder. deceleration.news/podcast-reme...

with a weird kind of haunted feeling, I keep thinking about how, in elementary school, when someone told you to stop doing or saying something for idiot reasons, the standard retort was: IT’S A FREE COUNTRY like—is that even conceptually available to today’s elementary school students?

People shocked that Fox commentator casually advocates killing homeless people. But writing about the street death of a friend last year who was unhoused and schizophrenic, this view was not far from the surface for many ordinary people in her neighborhood. deceleration.news/messages-fro...

“I could hear a woman’s voice screaming, ‘We’re coming back!’ ... and as I approached the wrecked tripod, a black late-model Jeep turned its headlights on and started to drive toward me." #environment #activism #forests #biodiversity #news deceleration.news/slaying-mons...

I have been squirreling away “No Spurs No” and “Stop Spurs Stop” for about ten years…finally vindicated in seeing it put to good use.

normally I’m a party-averse person, but tonite I went to the best party. My friend was turning 60 so there was a bouncy house and miniature donkeys, ice cream making, cigars, and to top it off a Jesus Christ Superstar singalong

All over our community and all over this land, people are fighting back and protecting each other by writing, singing, drawing, chalking sidewalks. Check out our first creative review here: deceleration.news/melting-ice-... w/ @pacifistwarvet.bsky.social & otrxs #poetry #art #visualart #resist

whenever i go somewhere intending to write something about it, i'm never sure whether i'll be able to pull it together quickly enough for it to be useful. this was one of the times i was able to do it. w @deceleration.news & @publiccitizen.bsky.social among others. deceleration.news/toxic-tour-s...

missed the reading with naomi shihab nye, but fundraiser is still open for gaza translators: givebutter.com/XUQBSA

I feel it

beautiful piece by @nopalerahinojosa.bsky.social with @asle-us.bsky.social.

had a lot of fun working with @kitoconnell.com to bring this story to light, amid the immense grief it names. w/ @asle-us.bsky.social

lastly: collab with @harmanity.bsky.social. side note: i never really liked rage against the machine musically, but last week on our way into san pedro pool someone was blasting "killing in the name," and when rocha screamed "fuck you, i won't do what you tell me!" it was so right.

This week we start to roll out some reportbacks from @asle-us.bsky.social ... Our first from Kamala Platt, author of 'Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India.' deceleration.news/asle-collect... #environment #ecocrit #climate

collab with my comrade/comadre michelle yates on the work of @mkaiasand.bsky.social.

Artists! #Poetry #VisualArts #photography #prose #ICE #climate #justice

Ok I have to play. Slightly diminish a band: The Regional The Mighty Bosstones They Might Not Be Giants

I'm looking for Texas public school teachers who would be willing to talk with me on the record or on background. I will protect your identity. Please reach out to me.

@flowersongpress.bsky.social and @deceleration.bsky.social teamed up for this panel of south tejas writer/scholar/artists, part of a virtual conference organized by my fave ecojustice humanities folks, the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (@asle-us.bsky.social)

books that I’m excited for #3

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There's still time to submit your #Poetry #Prose and #Art to the next issue of our literary journal ➡️ @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social. We invite you to join us in the radical act of creative freedom, to challenge constraint & to imagine liberation in both bold & quiet ways. Submissions due August 1.

"The Zaynab Project is a women-led, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit operating directly from within Gaza. We are part of the very communities we serve. No middlemen, no marketing costs, no admin fees — just local teams delivering urgent relief to those most in need."

"Listed below, are direct ways that people can help mutual aid groups on the ground – both by donating to them and spreading the word about the work that they are doing. Donations and support are direct ways we can help those attempting to survive an active genocide."

Congratulations to our 2025 ASLE Book Award Winners: #ecocritical winner is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (Christina Gerhardt) and creative winner is After World (Debbie Urbanski). www.asle.org/stay-informe...

ordered!

i am so, so, so, so, so truly terrible about sharing stuff i'm doing, which is why i'm posting here an hour before to let you know that i'm featured poet tonite for Tammy Melody Gomez's RECORDANDO series. it's online, 8pm CST. zoom link in event: www.facebook.com/events/s/rec...

an open letter to all of us. deceleration.news/arturo-madri...

fave part of the new #superman movie: when the Daily Planet editor (played by Bunk from The Wire who has not aged a day since) skims a draft of the reporter's story, which he's quickly typed up despite Lois's crazy maneuvering of Mister Terrific's T-craft

I spend a lot of time contemplating what's happening politically and trying to interpret/make sense of it. But I also take time off for pleasure. And then come back to the work. We're all in the fog of civil war, and it behooves us to go to whatever gives us back the clearer, bigger vision.

powerful new poem by @shelleyettinger.bsky.social: deceleration.news/arts-they-wa... @deceleration.bsky.social is publishing creative work now. for august, we're looking for artistic responses to vanishing ice or ICE vanishing our friends and family. to submit, email us: [email protected]

“They’re having a meeting”

You know it’s real when you want to delete it immediately after writing it.

pride bigger than tex-ass

Pay-what-you-can online writing courses via Zoom, aimed at artists from low-income backgrounds, in July and August courtesy of Squint Theatre www.squinttheatre.com/shop

far from home, this debut by ceiba ili, set to stunning video of ya gna wena by @deceleration.bsky.social, gives me solace: deceleration.news/ceiba-ili-su...

i've been in eating rehab the past 3 weeks, will likely be here another few weeks. progress is slow but real. today had the thought, for anyone else who needs it: just because it sucks/is hard doesn't mean I'm not making progress.

just wanted to share website i came across just now from my friend/comadre/fellow writer and borderlands ecothinker @nopalerahinojosa.bsky.social. check her out here: nopalerahinojosa.weebly.com

and read this latest from the people’s university for palestine:

watch @harmanity.bsky.social’s video, it’s beautiful. I couldn’t go but seeing folks gathered, singing, line dancing for earth/people protection filled me with such joy

@sfmontgomery.bsky.social discusses her new craft book Nerve, offering writers "essential tools and techniques to develop their own disabled writing practice." A free download and free audiobook version. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/d...

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.