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This week’s feature is the wonderful Catherine Young, with an artist statement reflecting on place, belonging, and the remnant plant communities of the Driftless bioregion. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/young

This week’s feature is the brilliant Steven F. White, with an artist statement reflecting on Hikuri (peyote), reverence, and the ethics of writing about a sacred plant without seeking to possess or explain it. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/f-white

This week’s feature is the fascinating Hannah Rodabaugh, with an artist statement exploring water’s protean nature and its connections to botanical exploitation, invasive species, and ecological change. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/hannah-rodab...

This week we’re featuring the wonderful Katherine Riegel, with an artist statement on hawthorn, childhood memory, and putting down new roots through the folklore and planting of trees. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/riegel

🍂 SUBMISSIONS ARE (ALWAYS) OPEN 🍂 Send us poems and essays that look closely at the botanical world: what ripens, withers, seeds, persists, transforms. We welcome new and previously published work. 🌱 Submission guidelines here: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi...

This week’s feature is the wonderful Tom Nutting, with an artist statement reflecting on winter blooms, ecological change, and how beauty can deepen our attention to a changing climate. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/nutting

This week’s feature is the fabulous Mihaela Moscaliuc, with an artist statement reflecting on cacao, ritual, and the rich ecological, cultural, and historical life of the cacao bean. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/moscaliuc-is...

This week’s feature is the wonderful Vicky Morris, with an artist statement reflecting on gardening through chemotherapy and the ways the natural world can hold both healing and harm. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/morris

The last lines of this Michael Garrigan poem🌿❤️‍🔥, featured in our Summer Solstice Issue 21.

“What Time Is” by Gregory Fraser, featured in our Summer Solstice Issue 21.

This week’s feature is the brilliant Michael Garrigan, with an artist statement reflecting on vagrant lichen, walking, and finding reciprocity with the ecosystems we inhabit. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/garrigan

This week’s feature is the brilliant ethan s. evans, with an artist statement reflecting on addiction, extractive capitalism, and the resilience of the Appalachian landscape. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/evans

This week’s feature is the wonderful Anna Lena Phillips Bell, with an artist statement reflecting on kindness, mutual flourishing, and the care we share with the plants around us. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/phillips-bell

Means so much to me that @planthumanq.bsky.social included my poem alongside Candela Murillo’s gorgeous art in their anniversary zine!

Welcoming the summer solstice with Issue 21.🌾🌞 From cacao beans to the Cranberry Glades bogs, plants that offer recovery and healing to tumbleweed in bloom and wandering lichen — our new summer solstice issue is live. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/current-issue

This week’s feature is the wonderful Katharine Whitcomb, with an artist statement reflecting on mint, abundance, and the long relationship between plants and humans. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/whitcomb-iss...

“Prayer Plant” by Susan Richardson, featured in our Spring Equinox Issue 20.

This week’s feature is the reflective Tony Whedon, with an artist statement on walking, seasonal change, and the natural world becoming new again. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/whedon-issue...

This week we’re featuring Susan Richardson, with an artist statement considering houseplants, cultivated nature, and the shifting boundaries between the domestic and the wild. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/richardson-i...

Our featured writer this week is the wonderful Kathryn Petruccelli, whose artist statement considers the emotional textures of our relationships with plants. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/petruccelli-...

This week’s feature is the powerful Anne Makeever, with an artist statement reflecting on loss, political climate, and the comfort of spring. Read here: otherwisecollective.com/makeever-iss...

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

Plant-Human Quarterly@planthumanq.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🌱🌸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