Featured Selection

  • Finding Solace After the Storm: A Conversation with Denise Duhamel by Frances Richey

    It’s hard not to go on and on about the many pleasures of Denise Duhamel’s elegies to her mother in her new collection, Pink Lady.
    Plume Issue #160 December 2024
  • Interview with David Lloyd by Ramón García

    You are both a prolific scholar and a very productive poet. 
    Plume Issue #159 November 2024
  • An Interview with Gloria Mindock, Founding Editor and Publisher of Červená Barva Press by Amanda Newell

    I'm excited about this interview because I want to know what your secret is and how you manage to do all that you do! You're an incredibly prolific writer, and as the Founding Editor and Publisher of Červená Barva Press, you're deeply engaged with the writing community both in the United States and abroad.
    Plume Issue #158 October 2024
  • Judy Katz’s How News Travels: Sally Bliumis-Dunn and Jessica Greenbaum Add Up its Wonders

    There was much excitement in our poetry community when Judy Katz’s stellar book HOW NEWS TRAVELS won the Gerald Cable Award in 2021.
    Plume Issue #157 September 2024
  • On making disorder make sense, on learning the voice of another: Interview with poet and translator David Rigsbee by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Judith Vollmer

    On making disorder make sense, on learning the voice of another: Interview with poet and translator David Rigsbee by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Judith Vollmer   David Rigsbee’s Watchman in the Knife Factory: New and Selected Poems  (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) and his translation of Dante’s Paradiso (Salmon Poetry, 2023) are the most recent additions to an extraordinary body of work.

    Plume Issue #156 August 2024
  • Peter Campion’s “Unidentified Animal” | A Brief Portfolio and An Interview with Amanda Newell

    As the title suggests, the underlying energy of your remarkable new collection is a primal, restless one.
    Plume Issue #155 July 2024
  • Wind and Shadows: In Pursuit of a Grandfather’s Story: A Conversation with Tyler Mills by Frances Richey

    Wind and Shadows: In Pursuit of a Grandfather’s Story A Conversation with Tyler Mills by Frances Richey In early April, 2024, I met with the poet, essayist and memoirist, Tyler Mills, to discuss her new memoir, The Bomb Cloud, and how it resonates with her poetry collection, Hawk Parable, written on the same subject. They are truly companion books, each

    Plume Issue #154 June 2024
  • The Other by Sally Bliumis-Dunn

    The poems in this feature look at how a certain distance or feeling of seeming “otherness” between the speaker and her/his/their subject creates a kind of unexpected intimacy, insight, understanding.
    Plume Issue #153 May 2024
  • James Crews: The Poetry of Connection and Joy, A conversation with Michael Simms

    James, you've been tremendously prolific in recent years.
    Plume Issue # 152 April 2024
  • Writing Internationally: Ian Haight in conversation with Tzveta Sofronieva

    Tzveta Sofronieva is the author of over twenty books, including Multiverse (2020), a collection of new and selected poems written originally in German, Bulgarian, and English.
    Plume Issue #151 March 2024
  • Dispatches From Lviv, A Conversation With Halyna Kruk, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Ali Kinsella, and Chard deNiord

    Dzvinia and Ali, your upcoming collaborative book, Lost in Living, featuring translations of Halyna Kruk’s poetry, and for which you've just been granted a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, is set for release in spring 2024 through Lost Horse Press.
    Plume Issue #150 February 2024
  • “unalone” with Jessica Jacobs: A conversation with Nancy Mitchell

    Thank you, Jessica, for talking with us about "unalone", forthcoming from Four Way Books in March 2024...
    Issue #149 January 2024