Plant-Human Quarterly

Talking & Listening to Plants

Issue No. 9 — Summer Solstice 2023


Welcome to Issue No. 9 of Plant-Human Quarterly! PHQ explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world, attempting to communicate across boundaries and possibly approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world. Published four times per year, on the solstices and equinoxes, PHQ’s poems and essays are paired with botanical images, merging verbal and visual mediums. PHQ is produced in collaboration with the Otherwise Collective, based in Amsterdam, NL. Together, we hope to transport people across the seemingly unbridgeable divide from the sentience of plants to humans.

⇣ Happy reading ⇣

Robert Bensen

Deborah Doolittle

Margaret Chula

Camille Dungy

Leonore Hildebrandt

Susan Jefts

Andrea Hollander

Kelly Madigan

Davis McCombs

Bertha Rogers

Mark McKain

Jean Ryan

Eleni Sikelianos

Barry Wallenstein