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ALOCASIA: a bi-monthly online journal of queer plant-based writing

EIC: @sarahclark.bsky.social

💌 https://alocasia.org/newsletter/

đŸŒ±đŸŒ±đŸŒ± ALOCASIA.org

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@adrianf.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:06 PMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

an old shorty from @havehashad.com for #smallpoemsunday

cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/3-s...

Text under a small icon of a skull in profile: 

Pine

Must be nice: 
a sweater of knives.
@clmporg.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 1:01 PMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

October is #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Pick your next reads from our 2026 reading list featuring indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

@chenchenwrites.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:45 PMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

So honored that Pirooz Kalayeh made a short film inspired by my poem “Race to the Tree.” You can read the poem here: tinyurl.com/mphr844n

Professor Kalayeh’s short will be premiering tomorrow (10/10) at Rochester’s ImageOut Film Festival. Tickets: tinyurl.com/ye7c6bcs

Race to the Tree fim poster
@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:49 PM

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for highlighting Ester Cuervos and Marcy Rae Henry from ALOCASIA in this lineup!

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 10:56 PMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

we're open đŸŒ”đŸŒ±đŸƒâ˜„ïž

alocasia.org/about-send-w...

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 11:20 PMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

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. đŸŒ±âœš

Purple floral background. Text reading: The 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. This year's awardees are Kyla-Yáșżn Huỳnh Giffin and Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins. Supported by funding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
@sundresspub.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:00 PMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

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

@jajobi.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:47 AMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

The middle of a six-trunked tree at Henry Cowell Park, forming an open vessel. This is full of leaf litter forming humus. Each trunk is completely covered in moss. (Original photo.)
@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:32 PMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

"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."

—GuĂ©rin Asante

alocasia.org/2023/06/21/g...

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:32 PM

"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."

—GuĂ©rin Asante

alocasia.org/2023/06/21/g...

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:48 AMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

"The yellow flowering mammillaria doesn’t exist – yet she could smell the stickiness

in what lay pressed between the pages of the 2002 Diary. Her body would lie there too."

—Rituja Patil

alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:48 AM

"The yellow flowering mammillaria doesn’t exist – yet she could smell the stickiness

in what lay pressed between the pages of the 2002 Diary. Her body would lie there too."

—Rituja Patil

alocasia.org/2026/08/11/r...

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:43 PMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

Big thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including these pieces from ALOCASIA by nawa angel alviar horton and Caroliena Cabada in their list!

@jajobi.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:12 PMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

Also available in print, alongside 98 other queer nature writers: alocasia.org/2025/05/01/j...

(Details on the mag’s website)
#twopageplustuesday

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 11:59 AMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

"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."

—Rasha Abdulhadi :: Monsoon on DinĂ©

alocasia.org/2025/08/15/r...

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 11:59 AM

"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."

—Rasha Abdulhadi :: Monsoon on DinĂ©

alocasia.org/2025/08/15/r...

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:43 PM

Big thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including these pieces from ALOCASIA by nawa angel alviar horton and Caroliena Cabada in their list!

@alocasiamag.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 11:54 AMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

"I learned to read
him as leaves do with air:
minute changes, living
turning toward or away from harm.

I’d feel them rise
veins flushing toward the surface
heat rising, capillaries swelling..."

—Alexia Cousineau

alocasia.org/2026/08/11/a...

@jajobi.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:04 AMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

The neighbor’s son hops a burning fence to save a blue jay.—HuĂœnh Giffin in @anmlymag.bsky.social

anmly.org/ap42/kyla-ye...

@jajobi.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:59 AMReposted by @alocasiamag.bsky.social

“The black, tannic tupelo tea of the stream has almost no perceptible current, so paddle strokes disturb what seems like centuries of silence.” —Watkins on @terrainorg.bsky.social

www.terrain.org/2025/nonfict...

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