Issue #70 May 2017

  • Guest Editor’s Note: David Breskin on Campaign

    This month, for the second time in three months and in Plume’s relatively brief history, I happily step aside, offering…

    Editors Note
  • Amit Majmudar: The Valentine’s Day Sutra

          The Valentine’s Day Sutra     1.] Before I read this Sutra aloud to you, a word…

    Featured Selection
  • Tattoos | Tattoos

    They come with stories. Like the woman whose thorny twist
  • N32P28

    Do not treasure or belittle,
  • In Brief: Tommye Blount, Jennifer Ghivan, Saarah Pape, Shelly Wong

    With the sensuality of Carl Philips and the edginess of Wanda Coleman, Tommye Blount’s debut chapbook What Are We Not…

    Book Review
  • SHALL BEAR UPON HIS SHOULDER IN THE TWILIGHT

    Reaching from history, that alpenglow, towards the dead whose clothes I wear
  • Perfect Air

    Put book down
  • Melodrama

    A gunshot: the trigger so light
  • Ernest Hilbert: On Literary Relics

    Rare book collectors devote whole lives to finding and preserving books by authors they love, though the books alone may…

    Essays and Comment
  • Mowing     

    I never remember to ask what it is
  • GIVING HER 100%

    There is a world where
  • Jukkasjärvi, Sweden | Hämeenkyrö, Finland

    It flew like a little bird
  • This Dog | 4 AM

    Maybe I’ve chosen life—not just
  • Aperol-Spritz | Padua

    Across the river from the Grossmünster
  • The Russian Senior Building. Newark, NJ | Mercury

    Those who are younger-younger play their bingo,
  • A Story about the Bees

    I still have the bees