Readers, as you will note, once more I have this month vacated my space in this note so that we…
NM: Your poems in this selection are in traditional or variations of traditional form, as are many of your poems…
PLUME Claire Tabouret, The Grip, 2018 August, 2021 Welcome to Plume #120 – August: and with this issue we reach our 10th year of publication…
Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 81 April: and, God, I’d forgotten this Norman Dubie poem! Many thanks for Adam Tavel’s recollection below. I had the…
NM: Hi Norman. Thank you for talking with us at Plume and sharing your lovely, mysterious, and deeply…
Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 79 February: and like the author of our introduction to the “secret poem” below, I find myself…
Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 78 January: and a time for taking stock, of course—doesn’t it often seem the mind and the…
Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 77 December: and for many of you the school term almost over. A joy, I am sure,…
Serving as reviews editor for Plume for the past two years has been a singular honor in my writing life.…
Halfway through his epic eleven-page sequence “Mosaic,” Tim Seibles echoes the closing of Robert Hayden’s oft-anthologized “Those Winter Sundays,” writing,…
In “Lapidary,” arguably her most commanding poem, Nancy Chen Long constructs a lush and brooding narrative about a rock collector…
According to a recent New York Times article, drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under…
n the final stanza of “Joyland,” a poem teeming with amusement park ephemera, Mark Cox’s playful account of a mini-golf…
It seems fitting, if lamentable, that the poetry community must celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks’s centenary during the ever-mounting tensions of Trumpism,…
“The Horse in Motion” Eadweard Muybridge 1878 Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 71 June: and some news to follow, but, first, our…
In “The Deer Lay Down Their Bones,” one of his last great poems, the oft-neglected master Robinson Jeffers shows an…
William Eggleston 7, from Troubled Waters Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 70 May: and some news to follow, but, first, our “secret…
With the sensuality of Carl Philips and the edginess of Wanda Coleman, Tommye Blount’s debut chapbook What Are We Not…
“Bluer than Blue”, Albertus Gorman 2017 Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 69 April: and some news to follow, but, first, our…
Two epigraphs from the esteemed Cornel West introduce the seventh section of Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H.…
In his exquisite, jazzy homage to Frederick Douglass, Robert Hayden resists the elegy’s gravitational pull toward mere grief or mere…
Jeff Skinner, “Josie” 2016 Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 67 February: and perhaps even more than usual a good amount of Plume activity to…
The narratives of horror and depravity that emerged from World War II remain impossible to tally, defying hyperbole even seven…
The work of Marianne Moore, arguably our quirkiest American modernist, has recently enjoyed an overdue revival. Perhaps in our precipitous…
“If you slit your wrists while winking,” New Zealander Hera Lindsay Bird asks in her debut collection’s opening poem, “does…
Metaphor is a form of illness. Sometimes writers ought to clothe rather than bare their souls. If we don’t know…
Esteemed sports writer and NPR commentator Frank Deford is, at first blush, an odd choice to narrate the 2002 PBS…
In “O Taste and See,” one of her most famous poems, Denise Levertov rejects the brooding grimness that defines Wordsworth’s…
Claes Oldenburg Extinguished Match, 1990 August, 2016 Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 61 August: and in a moment, again, actual news.…
“In the Lion’s Den,” a rare persona poem in Mahtem Shiferraw’s debut poetry collection Fuchsia, gives voice to the biblical…
Muhammad Ali with his mother Odessa Grady Clay at her home in Louisville in 1963. Credit: Photograph by Lin Caufield.…
Grief and irreverence rarely align in poetry. We have our wistful poets and we have our witty poets, conventional wisdom…
Paul Klee, one of the most gifted and prolific visual artists of the early twentieth century, defies easy categorization. A…
“Silo” by Randi Ward Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 58 May— and the cruelty this time not of the month even…
When Of Being Numerous won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1969, George Oppen seemed like an emblematic poet for…
“Dancing in Eleggua” by Reynier Llanes Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 57 Readers —April — and the cruelty this time not…
“This is how it feels, he thought, to be/the orphan of what you sacrifice to see,” Bruce Bond writes in…
“The Weiqi Players” Alex Hooks Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 56 Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 56— March: Madness, yes…
When Yehuda Amichai died in 2000, the international literary community mourned the passing of Israel’s greatest post-war poet. For those…
Nancy Mitchell “Script” Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 55 February: month in which for one, at least, Florida reveals its single…
Greta Stoddart’s third poetry collection, Alive Alive O, takes its epigraph from the final verse of the famous Irish folk…
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 55 – February: A cold snap here in Florida as I write – 42…
Steven Gus Page. “I’ll tell you this.” 2010 Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 54 January: “Another year over…” But not really.…
It is a strange irony that despite all of our war documentaries, battle reenactments, and tourist traps, the American Civil…
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 54 – January: And why not bid farewell to the holidays, happy as…
Nicolas V. Sanchez “Bloodline” Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 53 December: Another Thanksgiving passed and the strings of lights balled in…
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 53 – December: Yes, and of course: Paris. Where when I first stepped…
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 52 – October/November: Yes, you have read that correctly, but may have inferred…
Chris Maynard, “9/11, Times Square” Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 51 September: and our 51th issue! And our little party catches its…
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 50 – August: Our fiftieth issue! Astonishing in every way, this little whim…
From Un Chien Andalou – Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 66 January: and a fair amount…
“Birds Alight” Radu Nita Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 65 December: and a final notice: this newsletter now contains actual news, with…
“Drawing/Leap into the Void” Yves Klein/János Kender Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 64 November: and a final notice: this newsletter now…
