Earth Liberation Reading & Open Mic with Hillary Gonzalez
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Join us for an Earth Liberation Reading & Open Mic featuring eco-poet and activist Hillary Gonzalez, author of Wild, Unfelt World, a luminous collection of eco-poetry rooted in birdsong, seasons, and radical attention to the living world.
The evening will begin with an open mic, inviting attendees to share original poetry or prose centered on climate justice, environmental grief, resistance, healing, and love for the natural world. Pieces may be polished or in-progress. All voices are welcome. Following the open mic, Gonzalez will read from Wild, Unfelt World and join us for a conversation and audience Q&A. Written during early-morning bird walks, the collection is shaped by forests, marshes, and mountains, inviting readers to slow down, notice, and reconnect. To smell salt marshes, feel bark beneath their hands, and listen as owls call the evening in. |
A queer, genderfluid, and AuDHD poet who grew up on a farm in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Gonzalez writes at the intersection of neurodivergence, queerness, disability, spirituality, and environmental advocacy. Their work asks a simple but urgent question: why have we stopped listening?
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