𝓞𝓹𝓮𝓷 𝓒𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓟𝓸𝓮𝓶𝓼 & 𝓝𝓸𝓷-𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷
📬 Send no more than 5 poems or an essay of no more than 1500 words (flash essay or essay excerpt) in a single Word document to Neil Shepard at plant.human.quarterly@gmail.com
For more information on our submission guidelines: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi...
Our featured writer this week is the brilliant Marcia LeBeau, whose artist statement moves through childhood memory and a renewed connection to nature. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/lebeau
This week’s feature is the wonderful Bill Griffin, with an artist statement reflecting on the limits of knowledge and what lies beyond our ability to know. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/griffin-issu...
"Hawthorn" by Jody Gladding, featured in our new Spring Equinox Issue 20.
This week we’re featuring the wonderful Lauren Camp, whose artist statement reflects on place, attention, and writing in New Mexico. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/camp-issue-20
Our featured writer this week is the brilliant B.J. Buckley, whose artist statement moves through different versions of spring. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/buckley-issu...
A luminous and lively evening at Perdu Bookshop, Amsterdam 🌸
So grateful to everyone who gathered with us to celebrate spring, five years of Plant-Human Quarterly and the launch of our zine! until next time🌱🥹
With love & vernal greetings,
The PHQ team💚
Delighted to have two planty poems included in the Spring Equinox issue of the beautifully-curated @planthumanq.bsky.social. #poetry #plants
Thanks so much to Duotrope for featuring us🌺
🌱🌸HAPPY SPRING EQUINOX🌸🌱
We celebrate with our 20th Issue, marking 5 years of Plant-Human Quarterly! Join us in welcoming the equinox with poems that move through spring rain, hawthorn and abundance, mint, the harvesting of seaweed, and so much more. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/current-issue
These 2 poems published last year in @planthumanq.bsky.social are still some of the favorite things I've done. otherwisecollective.com/clauser
This week’s feature is Kristin Camitta Zimet, with two tree poems and an artist statement reflecting on winter trees, ageing, and the dignity of growth and rest. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/camitta-zimet
This week’s feature is Lawrence Wray, with two poems and an artist statement reflecting on walking, landscape, and how language emerges through attention and indebtedness. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/wray
Our featured writer this week is the wonderful Alison Townsend, sharing an artist statement that reflects on the making, context, and origins of her poems. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/townsend-iss...
Our featured poet this week is the brilliant @susanrichardson.bsky.social, sharing poems and an artist statement that explores the hidden ecologies of houseplants and how we live alongside them. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/richardson
Our next featured poet this week is the wonderful Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, sharing a poem rooted in olive trees and memories of Greece, with an accompanying artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/gelagotis-lee
Our featured writer this week is the brilliant Barbara Hurd, sharing a prose poem that moves through grief, survival and endurance - alongside an artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/hurd-issue-19
Submissions are open 🌿
We’re looking for ecopoetry and essays!
Each published piece is accompanied by original artwork by rising visual artist Candela Murillo (@kamusa_art).
We’d love to read your work.
Read our submission guidelines: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi...
This week we’re featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, with an essay exploring inosculation and an artist statement reflecting on craft and process. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/hawthorne-de...
"Here time is a ring composition, a shape for memory."
This week’s feature is Bonnie Costello, with their essay "Tree Ring Meditation" and an accompanying artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/costello-iss...
We’re honored to share the work of Judith Chalmer, featured this week with "Habitus" and a reflection on ageing through the lens of plant life. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/ph-mag-issue...
This week’s feature is the wonderful Lauren Camp, with her poem "The Close of October", accompanied by an artist statement on her creative process. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/camp-issue-19
“In winter’s coniferous pines and cedars that keep the promise of another year of greening.” 🌱
We begin our weekly features with the wonderful Pam Baggett, with her poem “When We Learn to Die Like Trees” and an accompanying artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/baggett
Thrilled to have two #poems in the just-released #winter #solstice issue of the wonderful @planthumanq.bsky.social.
Edited by Neil Shepard, the journal 'explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world.'
#poetry #ecopoetry #plants #morethanhuman
The Winter Solstice is here! 🌙❄️
From star jasmine to winter trees, a lamenting spider plant to a queer boy who imagines becoming a grove of quaking aspen — our new issue is live:
otherwisecollective.com/current-issue
Subscribe now to receive Issue 19 on the Winter Solstice❄️🌸https://otherwisecollective.com/subscribe
🍄A reminder of our submission guidelines and process! 🍄
From heavily researched pieces, to keen observation, to less systematic, intuitive ways of knowing and interacting, Plant-Human Quarterly explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world. Here's how to submit:
We’re thrilled to close our Autumn Equinox features with the incredible Jeanne Wagner. Read her poems “Daffodil Day” and “Haibun with Poppies and Ash” alongside an artist statement here: otherwisecollective.com/wagner
“What scatters your pit / is the creature that eats you”
This week, we feature the brilliant Amy Beth Sisson with her poem “Zoochory” and the inspiration behind it. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/sisson
Our second featured poet this week is Sean Prentiss, whose artist statement shares how landscape and place inspired his poems “Trilliums and Ants”, “Ephemeral” and “Autumn Succession”. Read in full here: otherwisecollective.com/prentiss