The Place That Is Coming to Us
By J.D. Smith. Broadstone Books, 2025.
The Place That Is Coming to Us addresses our frequently troubled human relationship with the non-human world using a variety of free-verse styles as well as prose poetry. The topics include climate change, habitat loss, and species extinction, along with ecogrief at large, and the collection’s final poems discuss how we might return to a more collegial relationship with the natural world.
J.D. Smith is the author of poetry collections including Catalogs for Food Lovers (Kelsay Books, 2021), The Killing ...
LASA 2026 Panel – Technologies of Utopia/Dystopia
Latin American Studies Association 2026 CFP for Panel on Technologies of Utopia/Dystopia
May 26-30, 2026 in person (Paris, France) https://lasaweb.org/es/lasa2026/
From the utopia of a “discovered” America of rivers glittering with silver to the infernal jungles that evoked the dystopic operations of the plantation, the aesthetic oscillation between these two scapes often has acted as motor and mirror for various colonial and neo-colonial technologies that proscribed uneven (and at times impossible) development. Scholars such as Katherine McKittrick, Yilver Mosquera-Vallejo and Ulrich Oslender, and Macarena Gómez Barris have ...