ALOCASIA: a bi-monthly online journal of queer plant-based writing
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ALOCASIA: a bi-monthly online journal of queer plant-based writing
EIC: @sarahclark.bsky.social
đ https://alocasia.org/newsletter/
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an old shorty from @havehashad.com for #smallpoemsunday
October is #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Pick your next reads from our 2026 reading list featuring indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
So honored that Pirooz Kalayeh made a short film inspired by my poem âRace to the Tree.â You can read the poem here: tinyurl.com/mphr844n
Professor Kalayehâs short will be premiering tomorrow (10/10) at Rochesterâs ImageOut Film Festival. Tickets: tinyurl.com/ye7c6bcs
Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for highlighting Ester Cuervos and Marcy Rae Henry from ALOCASIA in this lineup!
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Thank you to everyone who applied for this year's ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We're overjoyed to announce this year's recipients, Kyla-Yáșżn Huỳnh Giffin and Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins! We know they will do great things with this support. đ±âš
We are excited to announce the launch of a new fundraising campaign centered on a simple idea: writers helping writers. Learn more at: https://sundress-publications.square.site/product/writers-helping-writers-fundraiser/4OOOK2B325IRAMQL5X64BI56?cs=true&cst=custom
"And what becomes of rain returning to crevices.
What feeds them to the amplitude of later days and suns.
How much nitrogen must then be bought to keep an oak from dying."
âGuĂ©rin Asante
"And what becomes of rain returning to crevices.
What feeds them to the amplitude of later days and suns.
How much nitrogen must then be bought to keep an oak from dying."
âGuĂ©rin Asante
"The yellow flowering mammillaria doesnât exist â yet she could smell the stickiness
in what lay pressed between the pages of the 2002 Diary. Her body would lie there too."
âRituja Patil
"The yellow flowering mammillaria doesnât exist â yet she could smell the stickiness
in what lay pressed between the pages of the 2002 Diary. Her body would lie there too."
âRituja Patil
Big thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including these pieces from ALOCASIA by nawa angel alviar horton and Caroliena Cabada in their list!
Also available in print, alongside 98 other queer nature writers: alocasia.org/2025/05/01/j...
(Details on the magâs website)
#twopageplustuesday
"For years, he tells me, they came on the same day,
on the same minute if we are willing to believe
the records and oral histories and if we will
every year the rains have come later."
âRasha Abdulhadi :: Monsoon on DinĂ©
"For years, he tells me, they came on the same day,
on the same minute if we are willing to believe
the records and oral histories and if we will
every year the rains have come later."
âRasha Abdulhadi :: Monsoon on DinĂ©
Big thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including these pieces from ALOCASIA by nawa angel alviar horton and Caroliena Cabada in their list!
"I learned to read
him as leaves do with air:
minute changes, living
turning toward or away from harm.
Iâd feel them rise
veins flushing toward the surface
heat rising, capillaries swelling..."
âAlexia Cousineau
The neighborâs son hops a burning fence to save a blue jay.âHuĂœnh Giffin in @anmlymag.bsky.social
âThe black, tannic tupelo tea of the stream has almost no perceptible current, so paddle strokes disturb what seems like centuries of silence.â âWatkins on @terrainorg.bsky.social