Anthologies

Happy 10th Anniversary, us! We’re very pleased to announce that this year’s print anthology, Plume Poetry 10, is now available!  A great read for those who love poetry, teach poetry, and who write poetry.

Given, well, the success of its predecessor’ new format –45 “well-known/established” poets (for lack of better descriptor) contribute a poem; then each of these poets introduce a poem from a ”less well-known/established” poet, whom they have selected and believe merit a brighter spotlight – Plume Poetry 10 will continue in the same vein. Also, like last year, in early readings, we’ve received tremendous feedback — the poems again, to our eye, at least, extraordinary, and the resulting selections make for a more diverse reading experience. I hope you like it.

Plume Poetry 10 includes new poems from the above-mentioned “established” poets, ranging from Juan Felipe Herrera to Jane Hirshfield, Kwame Dawes to Rae Armantrout — and so many more, with a Featured Selection including new translations, essays on and photographs of Rimbaud, by Mark Irwin. Order heartily and enjoy!  Stock up for holidays, birthday’s, classroom use — we won’t ask.

Advanced Praise for Plume Poetry 10

“‘I like a hitch in the line, like you— / my little art is doubling, too,’ writes Maurice Manning, and Plume Poetry 10 doubles the reader’s pleasure. Rhyme’s basis is the companionship of sound and sound, and the companionship of poet and poet is the basis of this anthology. Its structuring principle is as inspired as the poems that comprise it. Familiar names invite unfamiliar ones, so the joy of recognition alternates with the joy of discovery. You get to see where the art is and where it is headed. Mark Irwin’s kinetic translations of Arthur Rimbaud show us still other kinds of poetic companionship—that of poet and translator, and of the dead and the living. This anthology is the perfect companion for every lover of American poetry.”
– Amit Majmudar

“Someone once asked Tennessee Williams what younger playwrights he admired. He replied, ‘Honey, I’m too old to cover the waterfront.’ Being old myself, and no longer teaching, I sometimes feel over- whelmed by the sheer volume of poetry out there. So many poets, so little time! I’ve come to rely on these inventive Plume anthologies, which are double-curated, first by Plume’s choice of established poets (an extremely various bunch), and then by those poets’ choice of younger or lesser-known poets, so the range of work is enormous. Many of these writers are completely new to me, and I doubt I’d ever have come across them otherwise. I find many of them to be truly original, by which I mean not that they say things never said before (though they often do), but rather that the work goes back to the origins of its perceptions, allowing us to see how a poem’s meaning comes into being. I look for that quality in poems, and find it here in abundance. This collection is like a big plate of irresistible hors d’oeuvres.”
– Chase Twichell