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Timothy Liu

Timothy Liu’s latest book is Down Low and Lowdown: Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues. He lives in Manhattan and Woodstock, NY. timothyliu.net

(For more information on Timothy Liu, see his website).

  • Aaron Shurin’s “Black Roses” reviewed by Timothy Liu

    When I was born ages ago, little did I know that a strapping 18 year-old soon-to-be poet would be walking into his first gay bar in San Francisco.
    Plume Issue #163 March 2025

  • Timothy Liu reviews “Queer”, a film directed by Luca Guadagnino

    Luca Guadagnino’s latest creation, Queer, is a visual poem from a master filmmaker.
    Plume Issue #161 January 2025

  • Sam Sax’s “Pig” reviewed by Timothy Liu

    Full disclosure: his latest book is overwhelming, a glutfest. Imagine walking into a restaurant and ordering off an eighty-plus-page menu that only serves some concoction of pork for every course offered (including dessert!).
    Plume Issue #159 November 2024

  • John Yau’s “Tell It Slant” reviewed by Timothy Liu

    When someone asks, “What are you reading these days?” I often want to respond, “That’s none of your business!”
    Plume Issue #157 September 2024

  • Timothy Liu on Hafiz’s “Little Book of Life”

    Will the real Hafiz (Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafiz-e Shirazi, 1325-1390 CE), aka Hafez, please stand up?
    Plume Issue #155 July 2024

  • A Brief Portfolio

    He’s nowhere now.

  • Timothy Liu Ruminates on Timmy Straw’s ‘The Thomas Salto’ in Five Short Lyrics

    This blockbuster debut is so far
    Plume Issue # 152 April 2024

  • Graham Foust’s “Terminations” reviewed by Timothy Liu

    I once heard a literary critic say: “Fifty years from now, John Ashbery will more or less sound like Mary Oliver.
    Issue #148 December 2023

  • On Frank Stanford by Timothy Liu

    They say you die three times.
    Issue #146 October 2023

  • Timothy Liu reviews Ana Božičević’s “New Life”

    I was strolling through Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan and happened upon a reading at the outdoor Reading Room.
    Issue #144 August 2023

  • Jody Stewart’s ‘This Momentary World’ reviewed by Timothy Liu

                                Jody Stewart This Momentary World Nine…

    Issue #138 February 2023

  • Last Christmas

    Your best friend had brain cancer

  • Timothy Liu reviews new books from Lynn Xu and Michael Chang

    I’m a fan of well-printed books. Handmade. Letter press.
    Issue #133 September 2022

  • The Stranger

    A quick call

  • My Own Private Parthenon

    Before having met Linda Gregg
    Issue #93 May 2019

  • Carpe Diem

    You won't live

  • ARS POETICA

    It's not the smoking I miss

  • BOTTOM FEEDER | DOUBLE TIME

    Said he had some hard sledding to do.

  • Without You

    I was doing just fine, a job, a home,