Reckoning 6

by Gabriele Santiago (Editor), Michael J. DeLuca, Francesca Gabrielle Hurtado

Reckoning 6, edited by Aïcha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago, addresses the intersection between social upheaval and environmental change. "[I]t's like a brief closing of the hand around something small and floating, framing it just long enough that we are able to look, really look at it. And then, if we can, we let it go." -Aïcha Martine Thiam "It is not utopia. But it is what we can have, these careful negotiations, communications, challenges, and sharing. We have relationships. New, complicated, frustrating, rewarding. Alive." -Gabriela Santiago Featuring poetry, essays, fiction, and art by Zuzanna Kwiecien, Francesca Gabrielle Hurtado, Russell Nichols, Tom Barlow, Nicasio Andres Reed, Nicholas Clute, Cislyn Smith, Nancy Lynée Woo, Tim Fab-Eme, E.G. Condé, Ken Poyner, Daria Kholyavka, Sofia Ezdina, Avra Margariti, Grace Wagner, Sigrid Marianne Gayangos, Kola Heyward-Rotimi, Scott T. Hutchison, Nicole Bade, Susan Tacent, Jessica McDermott, paulo da costa, Ellie Milne-Brown, Amanda Ilozumba Otitochukwu, Charlotte Kim, Rebecca Bratten Weiss, Amirah Al Wassif, Brianna Cunliffe, Jacob Budenz, Miriam Navarro Prieto, Wen-yi Lee, Mari Ness, Takayuki Ino, Rumi Kaneko, Preston Grassmann, Jesse Nee-Vogelman, Al Simmons, Laura Adrienne Brady, Prashanth Srivatsa, Taylor Jones and Luke Elliott.
Ebook January 2, 2022 978-1-955360-03-6 Print July 2022 978-1-955360-04-3 Trade paper, perfect-bound. 260 pages; 62,000 words.

282 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2022

Reviews

[Ryan]

This is a wonderful collection of stories, poems, and visual art. There are diverse perspectives all focused on how humans have, are, and will harm the environment around them. Some of the writers focus on a scientific look at how we’ve impacted the world, others focus on a more optimistic spiritual connection of humans to the earth to recover from the damage we’ve caused, and many focus on post-apocalyptic futures where the earth, free from the humans who have abandoned it, can thrive.

Reading this collection was a great experience. I was pushed to think about climate justice in different ways while experiencing a variety of well constructed, believable dystopian futures.