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Issue #58 May 2016

  • Compare the movement of swallows

    with Magritte’s matrix of businessmen

  • Thomas McCarthy: The Sacred Hours

                Thomas McCarthy is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, County Waterford,…

    Featured Selection

  • Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Editor: The Oppens Remembered

    When Of Being Numerous won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1969, George Oppen seemed like an emblematic poet for…

    Book Review

  • Editor’s Note

    Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 58 –   May: up early and feeling already…wistful for some reason as I…

    Editors Note

  • SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

    I hadn't yet recovered from a concussive first year teaching ninth-grade English

  • Spelling / Complication

    Serious injuries only!   Strange

  • Lüneburg Station, April 30, 1976

    It’s 5:45 am, sleepy car-landscape

  • POSTCARD

    always the dark body hewn asunder; always

  • BY THE MEADOWS OF HAY BALES

    By the meadows of hay bales

  • To Manuel Bandeira | To Hilda Hilst | To Adélia Prado

    The girls are still   a d o r a b l e

  • Road Trip

    Over the singed and brittle roadside stalks,

  • WILSER LOPEZ WOULD LIKE YOU

    to be Wilser Lopez. So be Wilser Lopez

  • Ambition

    Four in the morning,

  • Eggs

    Eggs in the cakes invoked by Marie Antoinette.

  • Call & Response

    In this last