Issue #100 December 2019

Tania Franco Klein
from Positive Disintegration 2019
  • Richard Greenfield reviews “NOS” by Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman

    GNOSIS OF OTHERWISE Up until 2013, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) listed a…

    Book Review
  • Plume Staff Choices

    (…which I really did almost call “Plume Plums”…)
    Featured Selection
  • Skin and Arioso

    I am sending off my blood for the story of who I am.
  • Svoboda, Lowe, Houlihan, et. al.

    Terese Svoboda on”Wrapped in Paper and String” I was thinking of how immigrants appear to so many brains as frightening…

    Editors Note
  • BLURRED LINES, SOME THOUGHTS ON HYBRID, LIMINAL, AND PROSE POETRY

    In his poem “In the Evening Air,” Theodor Roethke declares, “I’ll make a broken music or I’ll die.”
    Essays and Comment
  • Chocolate on my new pajamas

    Spun from a hundred cocoons
  • Wrapped in Paper and String

    Monsters crawl in our brains,
  • Clothes

    Because other things needed buying,
  • On Being Mused Upon

    Reading his poems, you recognize yourself
  • How It Is

    Say how it is
  • Edinburgh University Anatomical Collection

    Take shelter awhile from mortality
  • Heard in Claesz

    Decanting like the lees
  • Blind Trust

    In the nod of a cow as, stiff-legged,
  • Game with a Mad Bounce

    The child and I are kicking a pebble down the road--
  • DOMINION HELD AND ALTERED BY CHILDREN

    Feral children leave the inside screens
  • Outhouse with Maggots

    Look at us. Please. Do not run away.
  • Circumference & Earthrise

    Vanilla farmers in Madagascar sit in the dark with rifles;
  • We Lay Our Fear in a Wicker Basket

    Too drunk, walking around