Plant Your Words by Heidi Sander and Jamie Nix

Welcome to this sanctuary of plants and poetry. These poems explore the depth of relationships, cross-species and cultural interactions, and the natural world creating a collage of poems, thoughts, complaints, musings, sketches, overheard conversations, doubts, dreams, delays, and expectations of our human lives. Our goal for this slice of magic is to share our most beloved plant companions and enable you to discover yours. Each poem is inspired by a plant from various soil types, climates, and regions.

As this book was a unique collaboration between two poets, we invite you to share your poetry. Each poem is followed by a page open to you for reflection, whether writing a poem or doodling. As this poetry collection touches upon our beautiful planet which we hold so dearly, we hope these spaces for reflection offer you a place to plant your own words and reverence.

“Plant Your Words is a stunning veneration to our plant relatives. Heidi and Jamie have created not only a most wonderful compilation of poems about plants, they inspire readers to write of their own gratitude towards plants, on pages with gentle guiding questions. In the full circle of creativity and life, their book closes with how to make ‘seed paper’ from these pages of readers’ gratitude, to be planted in the ground … bringing life to written words.” -Tiny Seed Literary Journal

“I was left beautifully dizzy in the end. The poems and prompts dug out things I didn’t even know I had tucked away—deep in my heart. Poetry is not dead.” - Meghan Perry, Writer

ISBN: 979-8-88627-344-1