Bronwyn Louw, will consider this question: If the neologism sympoiesis means making or doing with, respectively in environmental and interspecies studies, (Dempster, 2000; Haraway, 2016), what would be a sympoetic way of writing? Sympoiesis and sympoetics are intimately related to symbiotic processes, and this will lead her to pay careful attention to ecocritical approaches of lichens, a life-form exemplifying symbiosis. Centering her inquiry around Brenda Hillmans’ Extra Hidden Life Among the Days (2018), she will explore what it means to write with, rather than about, lichens. Are lichens approached as literary models? Companions of thought? Partners in (c)rhyme? Fellow poets? In asking such questions of the poems, Louw will try to unfold the preposition with, in the hopes of garnering an understanding of what sympoetics, as an extension of ecocriticism and ecopoetics, could come to mean.