Reading: Jacqui Germain
Date and Time
Location
International Institute of St. Louis
3401 Arsenal St
About the Event
Coyote Time Convening: Climate Futures and Infrastructural Imaginaries
Poet Jacqui Germain will read from her contribution “A Series of Cataclysms, Ending in a Seed” in the Coyote Time publication alongside other works.
Jacqui Germain is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis. Her practice is engaged in generative examinations of political education, confrontational politics, rupture, resiliency, and repair, often exploring how collective struggle and imagination shape contemporary life. Germain is the author of the poetry chapbook When the Ghosts Came Ashore (Button Poetry, 2016) and the full-length poetry collection Bittering the Wound (Autumn House Press, 2022), which was selected for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry & Poetics Book Prize and later received the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. She has received literary and journalism fellowships from the Economic Security Project, Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, among others. Her writing has recently appeared in Protean Magazine, Hammer & Hope, The Nation, and Tripwire Journal. She is also a member of the St. Louis Anti-Imperialist Collective.
This event is part of Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time and our three-day Climate Convening, which brings together artists, writers, organizers, designers, scientists, cultural leaders, and community practitioners to explore climate as a lived reality and exhibitions as opportunities for worldbuilding.
For questions, reach out to Kristin Fleischmann Brewer at kfbrewer@counterpublic.org.
Register
Coyote Time Convening Registration
Space is limited and registration is required. We hope you’ll join us for this focused conversation and opportunity to learn alongside peers working to build more sustainable, responsive, and resilient cultural institutions.
Convening Support
The Coyote Time Convening is supported by the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, established by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
The Climate Forward Institutions Workshop directly supports Counterpublic’s Climate Impact Plan. Learn more here.
This year, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation awarded The Luminary, G-CADD: Granite City Art + Design District, The Griot Museum of Black History, and the National Building Arts Center funds to lower their carbon impacts across their campuses. In addition, the Foundation awarded Counterpublic a grant to support our work with Laura Lupton of LHL Consulting to implement our climate action plan with a long-term vision toward mitigation, adaptation, and resilience and creating a model for biennials, triennials and other large-scale exhibitions to account for their climate impacts.
The Frankenthaler Climate Initiative is the first nationwide program to support energy efficiency and clean energy use for the visual arts and the largest private national grantmaking program to address climate action through cultural institutions. The ongoing initiative provides critical support to visual arts organizations in the United States seeking to assess their impact on the environment and to lower ongoing energy costs. The Foundation has conferred more than $21.8 million since its launch in 2021, with 401 unique grants given for energy efficiency and clean energy projects at 295 institutions across 42 states and Puerto Rico.