Sally Bliumis-Dunn

Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches at the 92nd Street Y and offers writing consultations. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her third book, Echolocation, was published by Plume Editions/MadHat Press in March of 2018 and was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award, a longlist finalist for the Julie Suk Award and Runner Up for the Poetry By the Sea Best Book Award.

  • The Reckoning and 3AM

    Shadows stretch across the pine floor
  • Nicole Sealey on The Ferguson Report: An Erasure: An interview with  Sally Bliumis-Dunn

    I am so excited to delve into The Ferguson Report : An Erasure.
    Issue #145 September 2023
  • Three Poems

    I was four or five, bored by the dull terrain
  • Nathan McClain on “Previously Owned”: An interview with Sally Bliumis-Dunn

    It is a real treat and honor, not only to have been published in Plume Anthology 10, but also to be in this sustained conversation with you, which has been very lovely.
    Issue #142 June 2023
  • Moral Issues in Poetry: David Baker, Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett, Jenny George, John Murillo, Catherine Pierce collected by Sally Bliumis-Dunn

    Moral Issues in Poetry: David Baker, Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett, Jenny George, John Murillo, Catherine Pierce   I am often…

    Issue #136 December 2022
  • FORGIVENESS/ACCEPTANCE, Sally Bliumis-Dunn

    For this feature, I solicited work from poets I admire that show this kind of psychological transformation and asked each writer to describe it as best they could.
    Issue #130 June 2022
  • Jewish American Women Poets by Sally Bliumis-Dunn

    For this PLUME feature, I chose four Jewish American women poets, Jennifer Barber, Jessica Greenbaum, Judy Katz and Nomi Stone.
    Plume Issue #124 December 2021
  • Chanda Feldman and Erika Meitner interviewed by Sally Bliumis-Dunn

    Welcome Chanda Feldman and Erika Meitner to our PLUME feature.
    Issue #113 January 2021
  • Where the Robins Took Me and Northern Flicker

    Robins settle on the earth
  • Elegy

    The breeze this morning pulls on the surface of the bay
  • A Poem and Two Fables

    The breeze this morning pulls on the surface of the bay,
  • Berlin

    We see the public statues
  • For the Child Molester

    Let him sleep right through it—
  • Titanic

    Some of the shoes