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Plume Issue #161 January 2025

The Catacombs,  Bethany Eden Jacobson

  • Olsen, Bamber, Peseroff, et. al.

    William Olsen on his poems: These poems began before I started writing them.  My 97-year-old father was dying of vascular…

    Plume Issue #161 January 2025

  • Two Poems

    the way a kitchen’s dirty washcloth

  • 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

  • Alex Averbuch translated from the Ukrainian by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky

    everything happened as in the early days of creation

  • Jerez translated from Spanish by Susan Ayres

    Perhaps his hand was not so cold

  • On History

    His father’s boss was a Millerite—

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Faces pass by like unheard explanations

  • A Hope Abandoned: Navalny’s Death in Twenty Poems by Julia Nemirovskaya

    This month’s essay, “Hope Abandoned” by the Russian expatriate poet, essayist, and anthologist, Julia Nemirovskaya, pays homage to Aleksey Navalny…

    Plume Issue #161 January 2025

  • Why the Sphinx Likes Riddles and Episodic

    What she did,

  • Poems from My Deathbed (and Just Beyond)

    More than ever cherishing

  • Apology to My Husband’s Snore

    You goosehonk, one-note oboe or contrabassoon.

  • This Or That by Chard deNiord

    As both a poet and essayist, I struggle with Samuel Coleridge’s criterion for poetry in writing poetry, as well prose pieces, that is, putting “the best words in the best order.”
    Plume Issue #161 January 2025

  • Three Poems

    came, still in her cremation box, when we threw her

  • After Ungaretti

    For the sake of argument, which

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Both before and after our marriage,

  • go ahead, flash your badges

    good, the heart is closed now