poolside Issue No. 6: Plant

Call for Submissions: Due May 14

POOLside is a piece of printed matter that accompanies the magazine each year -- the first of which was introduced in Issue 03. POOLside is possible due to the generous grants we have received from the Graham Foundation. This compactly sized supplement (the dimensions of POOL are 12in x 16in!) allows POOL the opportunity to explore the theme's implications further.

For this year's POOLside, we are developing a dictionary for the word plant. We are inviting many individuals to give us their unique, biased, and subjective definitions of plant. Submissions can be anonymous on request. 

This POOLside aims to develop eclectic, insightful, and unconventional interpretations of the straightforward word plant. This, in part, is an extension from our call for submissions, in which we invoked 56 terms inherent within plant, the list of which is included below:

farmer, laborer, migrant, worker, wage earner, employee; sun, shade, climate; energy, power, nuclear; rhizome, root, germ; programming, automation, mechanization; seed, spud, pip; manufacture, generator, infrastructure; genealogy, lineage, pedigree; fordization, plantation, systematization; soil, bed, earth; factory, facility, mill; harvest, crop, cull; toil, labor, manufacture;  nurture, care, keep; assembly, processes, forge; germinate, accumulate, pollinate; produce, stockpile, multiply, pullulate.   

We hope you will contribute to this project, and we think your insight on what plant means to you will be a much-welcomed addition to the POOLside this year!

 Please use this form to record your response by May 14, 2021.