Sphagnum Imagine being able to pull water from deep below to the surface where you live. Imagine being able to hold forty times your weight of that which you most…
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1. I took a walk in the forest (for your garden) I took a walk in the forest. I turned, thinking that I would see you standing next to…
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Deflowered Last season, Gardener doffed his cap, downed a knee. . “Sorry I stunted the pear. I’m sorry for rust, . and the morning the pigeons got loosed. …
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[Plant Poetics and Beyond] A version of this paper was first shared at the 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference on the Vegetal Feminist Experimental Creation…
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[Plant Poetics and Beyond] From this short talk, take away that you are a blue nerve-blood tree, filimental instrument of perception, cultivated and cultivating yourself into finer and finer…
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[Plant Poetics and Beyond] It is easy to talk with plants. You are invited to do the following: Introduce yourself to the plant Make an offering to the plant…
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[Plant Poetics and Beyond] Roaming the verdant campus of University California-Davis, (UC Davis was instituted as an agricultural school called the University Farm ((farms being a specific mode of…
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[Plant Poetics and Beyond] To begin, I invite you to close you eyes. Be seated in a comfortable position. First, take a deep inhale in. Exhale with a loud sigh…
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[Plant Poetics and Beyond] Context I’m going to share the title poem from Withness, my book manuscript in progress. I see this book as part of a larger project of…
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[Plant Poetics and Beyond] Part 1. In Which the Issue is Discovered The issue is : how to be within the literal/literary when it is all around us In…
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Janice Lee & Andrea Quaid In one sense, the work featured in Plant Poetics and Beyond comes from the June 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Conference…