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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This week we feature the brilliant Gillian Cummings, whose artist statement reflects on the solace found in the botanical world, and how drawing and poetry can help us navigate sadness. Read here otherwisecollective.com/cummings-iss... 🌱

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This week we feature the wonderful Bonnie Costello, whose artist statement explores how lichen and uncultivated landscapes challenge our sense of scale and the boundaries between ourselves and nature. Read here otherwisecollective.com/costello-iss... 🌱

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🍁Welcome the Autumn Equinox with Issue 22 of Plant-Human Quarterly. Featuring misshapen pomegranates, maple whirlybirds, rock-breaking flowers, algal blooms, ancient bracken, autumn marshes and more. 🍂 Read here: otherwisecollective.com/current-issue

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🍂 Subscribe to receive our new Autumn Equinox Issue straight to your inbox! 🌿📬 otherwisecollective.com/subscribe

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🍂 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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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

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Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose @poetlady74.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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-...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"Hawthorn" by Jody Gladding, featured in our new Spring Equinox Issue 20.

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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💚

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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Delighted to have two planty poems included in the Spring Equinox issue of the beautifully-curated @planthumanq.bsky.social. #poetry #plants

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Thanks so much to Duotrope for featuring us🌺

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🌱🌸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

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Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

These 2 poems published last year in @planthumanq.bsky.social are still some of the favorite things I've done. otherwisecollective.com/clauser

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PHQ Issue 15 - Grant Clauser

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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...

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“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

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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

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

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Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

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

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