Plant Poetics and Beyond

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…

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…

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.     …

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

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…