Issue #58 May 2016

  • Compare the movement of swallows

    with Magritte’s matrix of businessmen
  • Thomas McCarthy: The Sacred Hours

                Thomas McCarthy is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, County Waterford,…

    Issue #58 May 2016
  • Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Editor: The Oppens Remembered

    When Of Being Numerous won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1969, George Oppen seemed like an emblematic poet for…

    Issue #58 May 2016
  • Editor’s Note

    Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 58 –   May: up early and feeling already…wistful for some reason as I…

    Issue #58 May 2016
  • SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

    I hadn't yet recovered from a concussive first year teaching ninth-grade English
  • Spelling / Complication

    Serious injuries only!   Strange
  • Lüneburg Station, April 30, 1976

    It’s 5:45 am, sleepy car-landscape
  • POSTCARD

    always the dark body hewn asunder; always
  • BY THE MEADOWS OF HAY BALES

    By the meadows of hay bales
  • To Manuel Bandeira | To Hilda Hilst | To Adélia Prado

    The girls are still   a d o r a b l e
  • Road Trip

    Over the singed and brittle roadside stalks,
  • WILSER LOPEZ WOULD LIKE YOU

    to be Wilser Lopez. So be Wilser Lopez
  • Ambition

    Four in the morning,
  • Eggs

    Eggs in the cakes invoked by Marie Antoinette.
  • Call & Response

    In this last