POIESIS IS the para-literary journal of w the trees & publishes a wide-range of writers, artists, and genre-expansive creators two times a year in the form of a handmade, short-run journal, which is simultaneously published online. the general focus of the journal is on the cosmic-making, po(i)etic, tender, nonbinary, & iconoclastic.

Poiesis is about a kind of tender being-with while alive — a po(i)etics of (to)gethering/gathering— of beings & forms of life—a collective breathing, lung/ing, that metastisizes an unscripted sociality, hearkening a more radical, loving futurity.

ISSN 2694-1384 (PRINT) ◌ ISSN 2694-1392 (ONLINE)

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