Plume Issue #160 December 2024

Lyonel Feininger, Gaberndorf II, 1924

  • Bolz, Jacob, Rosen Kindred, et. al.

    Jody Bolz on “Eclipse” for The Poets and Translators Speak I once wrote a poem that began “This moon isn’t…

    Plume Issue #160 December 2024
  • A Brief Portfolio

    A murder of crows wing black vectors across
  • Perspective and Chosen by the Lion

    In the bedroom, the man disentangles his limbs from those of another.
  • Two poems by Gentian Çoçoli, translated from Albanian by the author and Henry Israeli

    A hive. Wooden shelter of meaning;
  • Anatomy of Late

    It looks like a fox, when it’s sleeping. No, its body
  • Three Poems

    Lavishly robed and turbaned, the palmist
  • Laboring to explain

    in Ants and Men: Island Apocalypse,
  • Stonesuck

    It’s of course tempting
  • Gender Reveal and Abecedarian Re: Actually, I Don’t Go By Mom

    On the doctor’s scale, baby pulls at his penis: crenellated shaft with all color blown out
  • Purge

    The Aryan Jesus, in Hitler’s painting
  • Sidetracks by Bei Dao Reviewed by Christian Detisch

    I have set for myself what I now realize is an impossible task: reviewing Bei Dao.
    Plume Issue #160 December 2024
  • Bartosz Konstrat translated from Polish by Dawid Mobolaji

    Suddenly: bam! The little boys rise from their knees, their teeth grow and begin to bite.
  • Christmas Lights

    I have watched how
  • Mass on the Beach

    I’m trying not to wonder if the priest
  • Sky Grief

    Arizona and the Black Canyon
  • Eclipse

    November’s moon is in eclipse—
  • Finding Solace After the Storm: A Conversation with Denise Duhamel by Frances Richey

    It’s hard not to go on and on about the many pleasures of Denise Duhamel’s elegies to her mother in her new collection, Pink Lady.
    Plume Issue #160 December 2024
  • Sydney Lea: ROBERT FROST AND THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

    In his classic book on nature and art titled Memory and Landscape, Simon Schama examines "the connection between nature and symbolism", claiming that "memory is the landscape on which we write our recurrent obsessions".
    Plume Issue #160 December 2024