Stone in the Stream Virtual Poetry Reading

Stone in the Stream/Roca en el Rio, a regional collective of writers and artists committed to environmental advocacy and climate justice through contemplative, artistic and activist response, will give a virtual poetry reading at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 17 at

www.BihlHausArts.org

Stone in the Stream members meet quarterly to share individual work grounded in an eco-poetics and to develop collective projects. They have shared their creative work at poetry readings, marches, vigils, Sierra Club gatherings, City Council meetings, in print, and online.

The poets who will read are Jean Hackett, Marisol Cortez, Sarah Joy Thompson, Kamala Platt, Liberty Heise and Mobi Warren, organizer of this event.

Marisol Cortez is a creative writer, editor and community scholar whose work walks between artistic, activist and academic worlds. She is the author of “Luz at Midnight,” forthcoming from Flower Song Press in December 2020. For more info on other publications and projects, visit mcortez.net.

Jean Hackett lives and writes in San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country. Her most recent work has appeared in the journal “Voices de la Luna,” the ‘zine “Words for Birds,” the collection of vulture poetry “Purifying Wind,” the collections of coronavirus poetry “No Season for Silence,” and “Tejascovido,” and “The Langdon Review.”

Liberty Heise is a poet, activist and educator living in San Antonio.

Mobi Warren, author of “Thread and Nectar” and “The Bee Maker,” is the co-founder along with Jim LaVilla-Havelin of Stone in the Stream/Roca en el Rio. She was the poetry curator for the 2014 Bihl Haus Arts exhibit “HOT! San Antonio Artists Respond to Climate Change.”

Kamala Platt, Ph.D., M.F.A. is adjunct profesora, artist, independent scholar and author in South Texas and at The Meadowlark Center, Kansas. Publications include: “Weedslovers,” (Finishing Line Press 2014), “On the Line,” (Wings Press, 2010) and “Kinientos” (compiler) Wordsworth, 1992. She has shared her visual and performance art and poetry broadly, most often in community arts and cultural centers.

Sarah Joy Thompson is a Filipina-American author, whose poetry invites readers to reflect on love of family, personal awakenings, and the natural world. Thompson has written two poetry collections: “The Everyday, the Mundane, and the Brave” (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and “Driving into Black Mountains” (FlowerSong Press, 2020).

The poetry reading is in conjunction with “Hot Pursuit: Visual Commentary on Climate Change” by Sabra Booth, which closes with this reading October 17. The retrospective explores a decade of environmental and climate change body of work produced by the artist. A 3D walkthrough of the exhibit can be viewed online.

For more information, www.bihlhausarts.org or (210) 383-9723.