Plants & Poetry Journal
Plants & Poetry Journal collaborates with writers, artists, scientists, and community organizers to publish poetry, prose, creative non-fiction, and mixed media. For every submission submitted to the publication, Plants & Poetry plants a seed in a growing community food forest in Northwest Arkansas. The intention is to build a food forest where contributors can learn through a place-based approach and focus their art on a space that cultivates ecosystem services e.g., increasing biodiversity, food security, and water, air, and soil quality. Each collection carries an environmental theme and includes writing prompts, activities, and discussions for the contributors to encourage participation and environmental action in their own community. Each contributor writes a piece for one collection with new themes like exploring aquatic plants and the importance of water management, air, water, & soil, two species interactions, conservation & biodiversity, among other collections. The collections are available for free online and feature other multi-media educational materials.
For every submission, the plants & poetry team will plant a tree or other vegetation in The Oasis food forest in Bella vista, AR. Each contributor has their own page where you can support and connect with them directly.
Read the full collection for free online in October 2024.
This anthology honors the sacred bond between humans and plants. Our contributors are a diverse group of poets, prose writers, and visual artists from around the globe—each sharing their unique perspectives and relationships with the plants they live among. In this latest volume, you’ll find everything from soul-rocking poetry and short stories to stunning mixed-media art, all reflecting a deep appreciation for the sentient beings who root themselves in place, offering food, medicine, and shelter to all creatures. Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists Vol. 4 invites you to reconnect with your plant relatives and see them not as mere objects but as living beings deserving of respect and gratitude. Read the full issue online here!
Plants & Poetry is 3 minutes on the patio with a Chestnut tree, seeded the moment you arrive in the Ozarks. It is a 15-minute walk around the property, twisting grass underfoot, hearing squirrels race through the branches of our treehouse like green highways of acorns, my Malinois following their every move. We are the sound of a teapot howling, the mint stewing. Reishi ground and steamed in Water, sitting in your favorite mug. Dusty piles of dog-eared pages laying with annotated lines and stories, saved and archived for a dark time. It is an album of memories. We founded Plants & Poetry during a time of serious recovery and deep healing. We discovered comfort and safety among our new house Plants, catering to their simple routine. The beauty of writing small notes, remedies, Poems, and in-between somethings, all documenting the still moments. We are excited to share with you Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists Vol 3.
Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists
We are thrilled to publish our second anthology that features poets, writers, and artists from around the world. This collection will be published online and in print, paperback. Plant People narrates a plant's perspective and describes a poet’s relationship with a specific plant. We feature over 30+ species in this anthology. You can read and listen to the full collection online here.
Gravity's Grave Vol. 2 The World Beneath Our Feet
Gravity's Grave Vol. 2 The World Beneath Our Feet is a collection of poetry, prose, nonfiction, and art. We navigate the cities we stand on each and every day. A soil metropolis, full of microbes with networks that stretch beyond our imagination.
Each microbe with its own unique ability to support the plants that live above ground, exchanging, trading, sharing resources. We will honor these tiny revolutionaries in this collection. We discuss the plants they connect with and how this translates into our everyday lives. The soil is the digestion system of our miraculous planet. Read the full collection online here.
My Core Rises: Mycorrhiza Collection
“Myco” – “rhiza” means “fungus” – “root.” My Core Rises: Mycorrhiza Collection consists of poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, mixed media, and poetry writing prompts exploring fungi.
From the core of our being all the way to the world that exists beneath our feet. The prompts encourage us to re-align with our fungi relatives and inspire us to establish a further relationship with all the spaces they live, grow, and connect within. Read the full collection online.
Wildlife of Underworld
Wildlife of the Underworld is a collection of poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, and mixed media exploring aquatic plants and all their comrades. We will orbit through flowing rivers, float on the highest waves, and ride the tides of each water ecosystem. We will explore our deepest imaginations, fears, and ultimate realities. Read the full collection online here.
Autumn Equinox Collection
The Autumn Equinox draws on the spiritual and physical transformation of our ecosystems. This shift honors the harvest and is a sacred time of the year to reflect on growth and expansion. In this collection, we will explore growth, harvest, and balance. The balance between light and dark as our days begin to transition. The day and night are equal lengths, marking the start of crunched leaves, colorful canopies, and scorching meals. The Autumn Equinox Collection includes poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, mixed media, and photography from 22 contributors. It also includes writing prompts. You can explore the collection online with audio recordings of each piece. Read the full issue online.
Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists
We are thrilled to announce our first anthology that features poets, writers, and artists worldwide. This collection will be published online and in print paperback copies. It can be accompanied with an interactive Plant Diary. This plant diary is a tool you can use to document all your plant babies and their details. Each page provides a space for you to write down the sun and water requirements and the age of the plant. You will also be able to sketch what the plant looks like. Read the full issue online.
Gravity's Grave: Exploring Air, Water, & Soil
Gravity’s Grave, Exploring Water, Air, & Soil is a collection of poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, mixed media, and free thought space. This is an interactive journal with prompts, a compost guide, 50+ pages of journal space, and more. Read the full collection online.
Seeing Synergies, A Two Species Interaction
Seeing Synergies is a collection of poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, mixed media, and free thought space for the reader to collaborate with Plants & Poetry in this interactive journal.
This is the first issue of the Plants & Poetry Journals that provides the audience with garden mapping tools, including companion planting, seed planning, landscape design, and so much more! Read the collection online.
Rituals & Remedies
This journal is a collection of poetry, prose, prayers, remedies, & photography. This publication contains new content from the online publication and 15 pages of free thought space. Read the full collection online here.
Art Meets Science: Examining Conservation & Biodiversity
This issue is a collection of poetry, prose, mixed media, and more. It is an interactive Journal that includes biodiversity and conservation activities like bird watching and 50+ pages of free thought space for the audience to add their own notes. Read the full online collection.
When Pens Bloom
Plants & Poetry partnered with Poets Are The Destroyers in substitute for When Pens Bloom: A Chapbook Collaboration with Poets Are The Destroyers and Plants & Poetry. Poets Are The Destroyers is a cinematic love story about the lives of millennial poets in Brooklyn, NYC. The cast members are constantly wrestling with this idea of destruction & creation. Read the full chapbook online.
