Plant-Human Quarterly
@planthumanq.bsky.social
Manifesting relationships to the botanical world and attempting communication across boundaries to approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world.
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
January 30, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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...
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...
January 29, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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...
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...
January 23, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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...
This week’s feature is Bonnie Costello, with their essay "Tree Ring Meditation" and an accompanying artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/costello-iss...
January 23, 2026 at 9:24 AM
"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...
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...
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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
January 16, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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
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
January 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
“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
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
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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
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
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
Current Issue — OTHERWISE COLLECTIVE
Current Issue
otherwisecollective.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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
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
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
Current Issue — OTHERWISE COLLECTIVE
Current Issue
otherwisecollective.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
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
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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:
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:
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🍄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:
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
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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
This week, we feature the brilliant Amy Beth Sisson with her poem “Zoochory” and the inspiration behind it. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/sisson
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“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
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
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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
This week we feature the brilliant Maria Olujic with her essay “Names That Ripen” and an artist statement with thoughts on plants and memory. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/olujic
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This week we feature the brilliant Maria Olujic with her essay “Names That Ripen” and an artist statement with thoughts on plants and memory. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/olujic
We’re thrilled to feature Cindy Ellen Hill this week, with her poems “Trout Lily Dream” and “The Nettle Shirt”. These are accompanied by an artist statement that highlights the importance of artists and imagination in dismantling constructs of “otherness”. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/hill
October 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
We’re thrilled to feature Cindy Ellen Hill this week, with her poems “Trout Lily Dream” and “The Nettle Shirt”. These are accompanied by an artist statement that highlights the importance of artists and imagination in dismantling constructs of “otherness”. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/hill
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Proud to share my thoughts on how my writing is linked to nature! Thank you, @planthumanq.bsky.social !
We’re honoured to feature the wonderful Bernadette Geyer this week with her prose poem “I Waited for the Bee” and a statement on her writing process. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/geyer
October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Proud to share my thoughts on how my writing is linked to nature! Thank you, @planthumanq.bsky.social !
We’re honoured to feature the wonderful Bernadette Geyer this week with her prose poem “I Waited for the Bee” and a statement on her writing process. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/geyer
October 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We’re honoured to feature the wonderful Bernadette Geyer this week with her prose poem “I Waited for the Bee” and a statement on her writing process. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/geyer
The incredible Christine Gelineau is featured this week with her poem "September Song" and an artist statement with thoughts on plant rescue. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/gelineau-iss...
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The incredible Christine Gelineau is featured this week with her poem "September Song" and an artist statement with thoughts on plant rescue. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/gelineau-iss...
Call for poems and non-fiction! 🕯 We are now reading for our Winter Solstice Issue. Send us words for the longest nights.
We seek both unpublished and published poetry and essays.
📬 For more information on our submission guidelines: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi...
We seek both unpublished and published poetry and essays.
📬 For more information on our submission guidelines: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi...
October 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Call for poems and non-fiction! 🕯 We are now reading for our Winter Solstice Issue. Send us words for the longest nights.
We seek both unpublished and published poetry and essays.
📬 For more information on our submission guidelines: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi...
We seek both unpublished and published poetry and essays.
📬 For more information on our submission guidelines: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi...
We’re thrilled to also feature Sara Eddy this week, with her poem "Feverfew" and artist statement, which reflects on the limits of our knowledge and our symbiotic relationship with plant life. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/eddy
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We’re thrilled to also feature Sara Eddy this week, with her poem "Feverfew" and artist statement, which reflects on the limits of our knowledge and our symbiotic relationship with plant life. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/eddy
Our featured poet this week is Maggie Dietz, whose artist statement explores the temporalities at play in her poem "Reprieve" and the mythology behind her poem "Trick Narcissus". Read in full here: otherwisecollective.com/dietz-issue-18
October 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Our featured poet this week is Maggie Dietz, whose artist statement explores the temporalities at play in her poem "Reprieve" and the mythology behind her poem "Trick Narcissus". Read in full here: otherwisecollective.com/dietz-issue-18
Our featured poet this week is Patricia Clark, whose artist statement reflects on mortality and shares the inspiration behind her poem "Stippled Leaf, No Trout". Read here: otherwisecollective.com/clark-issue-18 🍂
October 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Our featured poet this week is Patricia Clark, whose artist statement reflects on mortality and shares the inspiration behind her poem "Stippled Leaf, No Trout". Read here: otherwisecollective.com/clark-issue-18 🍂
We begin our artist features with Joanne Allred, with her poem "Elegy for the Honey Run Trees" and an artist statement reflecting on the consciousness of trees. Read in full here: otherwisecollective.com/allred
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We begin our artist features with Joanne Allred, with her poem "Elegy for the Honey Run Trees" and an artist statement reflecting on the consciousness of trees. Read in full here: otherwisecollective.com/allred