"I jab at the screen and zoom in, trying to pinpoint the location of the pushpin on iNaturalist’s app. I’m not used to the interface at all, and it is making my search unnecessarily difficult." —james achusiogu :: “Harmattan Harvests” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/j...

"I jab at the screen and zoom in, trying to pinpoint the location of the pushpin on iNaturalist’s app. I’m not used to the interface at all, and it is making my search unnecessarily difficult." —james achusiogu :: “Harmattan Harvests” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/j...

"all the dead men are draped in white their bodies soft in the soil of my memory growing into flowers my grandfather smells like chrysanthemums my granduncle has yellowed-out petals" —Gospel Chinedu :: “The Voyage” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/g...

"all the dead men are draped in white their bodies soft in the soil of my memory growing into flowers my grandfather smells like chrysanthemums my granduncle has yellowed-out petals" —Gospel Chinedu :: “The Voyage” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/g...

Cover reveal for Carnalis, my lesbian cannibal novella, which is out in MARCH from @nictitatingbooks.bsky.social!!

"The experiment was even conducted with plastic plants, and it still worked. It was able to mimic the shape of the plastic. That is all I need to be convinced: plants can see." —Sam Nartus-Fois translates Camille Cornu alocasia.org/2025/10/20/s...

Celebrate #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list! Featuring poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

"The experiment was even conducted with plastic plants, and it still worked. It was able to mimic the shape of the plastic. That is all I need to be convinced: plants can see." —Sam Nartus-Fois translates Camille Cornu alocasia.org/2025/10/20/s...

Thank you to Memoirland for including james achusiogu's "Harmattan Harvests" in this week's Memoir Monday! "...accented by our growing up with ndï öcha, they still tease us—light-heartedly. It’s better, they say, than those who cannot speak at all." memoirland.substack.com/p/memoir-mon...

So happy to see our all-Indigenous issue included in this list!

"Exhausting, this whole business of renewal and the banana palm I nearly killed trying to kill its plague of mites as cures go I’m worse than the disease Death to what? What’s the motto?" —Chiara Di Lello, Childless Millennial Considers Non-Attachment alocasia.org/2025/10/20/c...

"Exhausting, this whole business of renewal and the banana palm I nearly killed trying to kill its plague of mites as cures go I’m worse than the disease Death to what? What’s the motto?" —Chiara Di Lello, Childless Millennial Considers Non-Attachment alocasia.org/2025/10/20/c...

So happy to see our all-Indigenous issue included in this list!

Thank you to Memoirland for including james achusiogu's "Harmattan Harvests" in this week's Memoir Monday! "...accented by our growing up with ndï öcha, they still tease us—light-heartedly. It’s better, they say, than those who cannot speak at all." memoirland.substack.com/p/memoir-mon...

"tell me how to love / decay / how to love nature after its ruin / how to appreciate / ruin / tell me what it means to / love an invasive species / how to explain the beauty of kudzu" —arushi (aera) rege :: “nuclear winter, burning planet” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/a...

"how to love nature after its ruin" 😭😭😭

"tell me how to love / decay / how to love nature after its ruin / how to appreciate / ruin / tell me what it means to / love an invasive species / how to explain the beauty of kudzu" —arushi (aera) rege :: “nuclear winter, burning planet” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/a...

Find your next favorite writer in our latest roundup of lit mags! Our October roundup features new issues from more than 25 magazines: www.clmp.org/news/october...

"They bulldozed the orchard last year, slapped down pavement, planted a Texaco where the trees used to be. Some nights you can still smell the fruit fermenting beneath the asphalt, the air holding on like it remembers" —Ali C :: “pyramus: root & ghost.” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/a...

"They bulldozed the orchard last year, slapped down pavement, planted a Texaco where the trees used to be. Some nights you can still smell the fruit fermenting beneath the asphalt, the air holding on like it remembers" —Ali C :: “pyramus: root & ghost.” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/a...

Honored to see ALOCASIA's latest issue on this roundup from @clmporg.bsky.social!

"Tomorrow, I’ll wake up three hours late, with no memory of my list, wracked by the guilt of opportunity costs and neglected responsibility. It took a year and a half to kill my cactus but I’m not great at watering myself either." —Julian Kanagy alocasia.org/2025/10/20/j...

"Tomorrow, I’ll wake up three hours late, with no memory of my list, wracked by the guilt of opportunity costs and neglected responsibility. It took a year and a half to kill my cactus but I’m not great at watering myself either." —Julian Kanagy alocasia.org/2025/10/20/j...

Honored to see ALOCASIA's latest issue on this roundup from @clmporg.bsky.social!

"10 ..the tomato plants still swell with fruit 11 and the pineapple sage sprouts scarlet flowers 12 but three minutes into dinner, the sun pulls 13 an Irish goodbye. Let this be the year 14 I don’t go with it" —June Gervais :: “Forty Rows of Rosemary” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/j...

My recently published book "is(ness)", Gnashing Teeth Publishing, is listed as one of the CLMP's reading lists for November. Check out all the other Indigenous authors. There are some great titles. www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

"10 ..the tomato plants still swell with fruit 11 and the pineapple sage sprouts scarlet flowers 12 but three minutes into dinner, the sun pulls 13 an Irish goodbye. Let this be the year 14 I don’t go with it" —June Gervais :: “Forty Rows of Rosemary” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/j...

yes, we're open 💚🌱

"no need to leave before dusk you make camp below clitoral conifers topo map, GPS, and aerial photograph all navigational skill is meaningless when you’re in no rush to stop humming with the refrain of my warbling song thrush" —Arbor Elliott alocasia.org/2025/10/20/a...

"no need to leave before dusk you make camp below clitoral conifers topo map, GPS, and aerial photograph all navigational skill is meaningless when you’re in no rush to stop humming with the refrain of my warbling song thrush" —Arbor Elliott alocasia.org/2025/10/20/a...

"Moderately toxic, but not enough to kill. Just enough to make one ill. Like an ex." —Linda Lamenza :: “Non-Edible Mushroom” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/l...

"Moderately toxic, but not enough to kill. Just enough to make one ill. Like an ex." —Linda Lamenza :: “Non-Edible Mushroom” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/l...

today I put my hands into dirt, and it was warm what a good day —Conyer Clayton #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

today I put my hands into dirt, and it was warm what a good day —Conyer Clayton #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

ALOCASIA #15 is here w/ queer planty writing as autumn falls upon us! w/ Chiara Di Lello, arushi (aera) rege, June Gervais, Ali C, Arbor Elliott, Linda Lamenza, james achusiogu, Sam Nartus-Fois tr. Camille Cornu, Julian Kanagy, & Gospel Chinedu ALOCASIA.org

"I jab at the screen and zoom in, trying to pinpoint the location of the pushpin on iNaturalist’s app. I’m not used to the interface at all, and it is making my search unnecessarily difficult." —james achusiogu :: “Harmattan Harvests” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/j...

"I jab at the screen and zoom in, trying to pinpoint the location of the pushpin on iNaturalist’s app. I’m not used to the interface at all, and it is making my search unnecessarily difficult." —james achusiogu :: “Harmattan Harvests” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/j...

"all the dead men are draped in white their bodies soft in the soil of my memory growing into flowers my grandfather smells like chrysanthemums my granduncle has yellowed-out petals" —Gospel Chinedu :: “The Voyage” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/g...

I really like this poem!

"all the dead men are draped in white their bodies soft in the soil of my memory growing into flowers my grandfather smells like chrysanthemums my granduncle has yellowed-out petals" —Gospel Chinedu :: “The Voyage” alocasia.org/2025/10/20/g...

ICYMI

"Rogue Corn" from my latest book, Hold Your Own (Copper Canyon Press, 2024).

Get your cover letters ready! We ride (open Submittable) at dawn 🏇🌅 #writingcommunity

Boquila really is able to detect which plant is the closest. The experiment was even conducted with plastic plants, and it still worked. It was able to mimic the shape of the plastic. That is all I need to be convinced: plants can see —Sam Nartus-Fois tr. Camille Cornu alocasia.org/2025/10/20/s...

"I thought I was one of the hard to kill ones, good with whatever until I nearly whatevered a pothos to death too" Here's "Childless Milennial Considers Non-Attachment" alocasia.org/2025/10/20/c...

So happy to have a poem* in ALOCASIA this month! *the title poem of my forthcoming chapbook, in fact!

Boquila really is able to detect which plant is the closest. The experiment was even conducted with plastic plants, and it still worked. It was able to mimic the shape of the plastic. That is all I need to be convinced: plants can see —Sam Nartus-Fois tr. Camille Cornu alocasia.org/2025/10/20/s...

ICYMI

it! is! here!!

Woooh! It's time to be GAY ABOUT PLANTS again with a new issue of ALOCASIA!!!