ALOCASIA: 99 queer writers on plants and nature is a collection of the succulent and the thorny of contemporary queer literature that explores the self and relationships through nature and plants. This collection is part love song and part howl, delving into everything from the shackles of capitalism and imperialism, to lost loves, to just what was going on with that sus ex.
Featuring writing by:
Rasha Abdulhadi, March Abuyuan-Llanes, Ashely Adams, Saida Agostini, Ashia Ajani, Mair Allen, Ally Ang, Crisosto Apache, Robin Arble, sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Guérin Asante, lae astra, Bryce Baron-Sips, June Beck, Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, Jacob J Billingsley · Yasmine Bolden · Joefel Bolo · Slater By The Sea, Caroliena Cabada, Jody Chan, Maya Cheav, Grant Chemidlin, Chloe Chou, Kai Coggin, Seth Copeland, Chiara Di Lello, Sara Eddy, Ena Elder-Gomes, Emdash AKA Emily Lu Gao (高璐璐), Danielle Shandlin Emerson, Cherolyn Kay Fischer, Aerik Francis, Ryan Tito Gapelu, Moni Garcia, Francis Gene-Rowe, June Gervais, Paul Goudarzi-Fry, Rhienna Renée Guedry, Jo Güstin, annakai hayakawa geshlider, narinda heng, Marcy Rae Henry, KateLynn Hibbard, Nora Hikari, Ellie Howard, Talicha J., Umang Kalra, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, Mukethe Kawinzi, Seren Kilig, Rebecca Kinkade-Black, Tara Labovich, BEE LB, Jessica Le, Nolan Lee, j marvain, celina mcmanus, Rita Mookerjee, Tiffany Morris, Sreeja Naskar, Miriam Navarro Prieto, Nnenna Loveth Umelo Uzoma Nwafor, AJ O’Reilly, J. C. Otiono, Rituja Patil, Isaac Pickell, Shannon Pulusan, nat raum, Zoe Reay-Ellers, arushi (aera) rege, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, Tristan Richards, MP Rosalia, Margaret Saigh, Jake Salazar, Nnadi Samuel, sangria, Mandy Seiner, Ashish Kumar Singh, Derek R. Smith, Sarp Sozdinler, Kit Steitz, Liam Strong, Joy Su, Luke Sutherland, Saheed Sunday, Dihya Tamaghza, Addie Tsai, Ann Tweedy, Arya Vishin, Nikki Wallschlaeger, sasha weiss, Keagan Wheat, Cassandra Whitaker, Elizabeth Wing, Anangookwe Wolf, Julia Yong, and Allya Yourish
“In ALOCASIA: 99, anthropomorphism has been left behind—or better yet, reversed—in favor of plantomorphism, arbormorphism, and other ways of adopting the tenacity, the resilience, the tenderness of plants. The poets and writers here assembled speak both with and through the wild onion, the hollow log, the night-blooming cereus, and so many more, to evoke the pleasure and pain of living wherever and however one lives rooted. May ALOCASIA: 99 continue to propagate new work.”
—Callum Angus, author of A Natural History of Transition and publisher of smoke and mold
“Tomorrow, will you / remember all / these names I’ve told you?” March Abuyuan-Llanes is one of many poets in this anthology who asks terribly important questions. Can our attention be fearless? Can our everyday urges become a kind of magic—what slips us from stupor into relation and awe? Do we dare? ALOCASIA answers: yes! Erotically, politically, yes, yes, yes.
—Noʻu Revilla, author of Ask the Brindled
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