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Plume: Plume Issue #170 October 2025
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“The Walnut and Honey Cookies” translated from Romanian by Clara Burghelea
Two Poems translated by Ryan Bruno
I Spent one Summer with a Semi-colon
Two Golden Shovels Tada Chimako and Issa
Two poems translated from Spanish by Charlotte Stretch
The Poets and Translators Speak Briccetti, Clara Burghelea, Stephen Bluestone, et. al.
Book Review Mackenzie Kozak “No swaddle” Reviewed by Celeste Lipkes Molly Twomey’s “Chic To Be Sad” reviewed by Heather Treseler
Featured Selection What if the Invader is Beautiful: Mystic in the Mojave, Louise Mathias in Conversation with Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment “Dispatches from Terra Incognita 4 & 5” by Peter Johnson
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Three prose poems by Marie Lundquist translated from Swedish by Malena Mörling
Three prose poems by Marie Lundquist translated from Swedish by Malena Mörling The nights when you practice tenderness, the air like a skin around the words. On top of the crest: the dripping udder, red currant breast, rowanberry blood, and the blush of the apples. The sun is leaping in Leo and Virgo. Such is the month of harvest,
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