Plant-Human Quarterly

Talking & Listening to Plants

Issue No. 19 — Winter Solstice 2025

Welcome to Issue No. 19 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 ⇣

Pam Baggett

Lauren Camp

Sally Bliumis-Dunn

Judith Chalmer

Bonnie Costello

Barbara Hurd

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Donna J. Gelagotis Lee

Susan Richardson

Alison Townsend

Lawrence Wray

Kristin Camitta Zimet