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The goal of the present session is twofold: on the one hand, it stands as a poetry reading event (poems by John Keats and Robert Frost), on the other hand (displaying its essayistic dimension), it aims at exploring the ancient link between plants and poetry, evoking poetry’s early connection with healing rituals and its expression  throughout  history  until  the  present  day,  when  the climate  crisis  makes  imperative  a  closer  proximity  to  nature  by virtue  of  the  feelings  and  sensations  that  poetry  can  invoke  in regard to nature’s beauty and power of creation. Keywords: Plants, Poetry, Nature, Aesthetics, Cultural Anthropology, Ecocriticism.