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 🪾

@planthumanq.bsky.social fits my poetic obsessions. So glad to have my poem "Zoochory" here

Excited to have my prose poem "I waited for the bee" included in the new issue of Plant-Human Quarterly!

Happy Equinox!🌙🍁 From falling leaves to elegies, skunk cabbage to trout lilies - our new issue is here: otherwisecollective.com/current-issue Artwork by Candela Murillo (@kamusa_art)

Autumn is upon us! And with it comes Issue 18 of Plant-Human Quarterly. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to receive it in your inbox📥 otherwisecollective.com/subscribe

Many congratulations to our contributor Leonore Hildebrandt on her collection SOMEWHERE THE DAY BEGINS, out with Deerbrook Editions. www.deerbrookeditions.com/somewhere-th... The collection includes poems "Centers of Balance" and "Gardeners Rounds", first published by Plant-Human Quarterly. 🌿

Our final feature of Issue 17 is the wonderful Sally Zaino, with her poem "Elegy for American Beeches" and accompanying artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/zaino

We’re thrilled to feature the incredible Anne McCrary Sullivan this week, with her poem "Green Hell I've Heard It Called" and artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/sullivan-iss...

This week, we also spotlight the brilliant Lex Runciman, sharing his poem "Native" and thoughts behind it. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/runciman

This week’s incredible feature: Paulann Petersen and her poems "Because Every Jot of Earth Is a Grave", "Because Any Pip or Pit Is a Solar Seed" accompanied by an artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/petersen-iss...

This week's second feature is the incredible Betsy Merbitz, with her poems "Why Goldenrod" and "Elda Mor", alongside an artist statement reflecting on her writing process. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/merbitz

We’re thrilled to feature the incredible Deirdre Lockwood this week, with her poems "No Smoke, No Heat, No Rain ", "I Walk Through the Neighborhood Without You for the First Time Since Your Birth" and an accompanying an artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/lockwood

We’re now reading for our Autumn Equinox Issue!🍂🕯️ 📬 Send no more than 5 poems or an essay of no more than 1500 words in a single Word document to Neil Shepard at [email protected] For more information on our submission guidelines, see here: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi...

This week’s second feature is Carlene Kucharczyk, with her poem “Moonvine” and accompanying artist statement! Read here: otherwisecollective.com/kucharczyk

It is our pleasure to feature Tara Hollander this week, with her poem “Thistles at the Fork" and an accompanying artist statement. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/hollander-is...

It is our pleasure to feature Katie Higinbotham with her poignant essay "Tiger Lily" and accompanying artist statement. Read in full here: otherwisecollective.com/higinbotham

This week we feature the wonderful Angie Estes’ with her poem on the gingko tree "Lieu de living Mémoire". Read the poem and accompanying artist statement here: otherwisecollective.com/estes

Our second featured artist this week Bonnie Costello🪾🪲 read “Dying Ash, A Fable in Search of a Moral” and the full artist statement here: otherwisecollective.com/ph-mag-issue...

We are delighted to kick off our Summer Solstice Issue features with Luther Allen! 🌞 Read “Trees: Memories, Elegies” and the accompanying artist statement here: otherwisecollective.com/allen

Our Summer Solstice Issue is here 🌞✨ Join us in reaching towards the sun and listening to the plant world.🌿 Read the full issue here: otherwisecollective.com/current-issue

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive our new Summer Solstice Issue directly in your inbox📥! Our newsletter also includes artist statements, where for 6 weeks our featured writers examine the relationship between their written work and the botanical world🌞🌺: otherwisecollective.com/subscribe

Gary Finke in the latest Plant-Human Quarterly: The wind, children, loves embers so much / it sometimes carries them safely for miles. otherwisecollective.com/ph-mag-issue... @planthumanq.bsky.social

Plant-Human Quarterly reads poetry & essays year-round & seeks work on how you manifest your relationship to the botanical world. No fee. https://www.newpages.com/guide-submission-opportunities/plant-human-quarterly-seeks-submissions/ #callforsubmissions @planthumanq.bsky.social

Submissions to Plant-Human Quarterly are open year-round 🌞send us poems and essays that reach toward the botanical, that blur the lines between human and plant, self and season!🌿 For more info on submitting, see here: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi... #write #litmag #poetry #poems #ecopoetry