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Plume Issue #163 March 2025

Adolpho Gottlieb, lithograph

  • Dissent: A Feature compiled by Amy Beeder

    Last December, I asked some poets if they would contribute to Plume something that expressed, however obliquely, their reaction to the presidential election of 2024.
    Featured Selection

  • “Dispatches from Terra Incognita”

    Saturday, cold as a witch’s you know what. I’m at the Lab to give a urine sample.

  • An Eye Out for the Reader by Steve Kronen

    After Anne Bradstreet left her Northampton home in 1630, crossed the Atlantic and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, she wrote not only the first book of English poems in the New World but also the first “writerly” poem.
    Essays and Comment

  • Aaron Shurin’s “Black Roses” reviewed by Timothy Liu

    When I was born ages ago, little did I know that a strapping 18 year-old soon-to-be poet would be walking into his first gay bar in San Francisco.
    Book Review

  • Gibson, Johnson, Treseler, et. al.

    Margaret Gibson on “In Praise of Transformations”: I recycle, and the process begins with emptying, rinsing, sometimes soaking.  I don’t…

    The Poets and Translators Speak

  • Translation Portfolio: Nine Contemporary Latin American Poets translated by Frances Simán with Mihaela Moscaliuc

    You have introduced me, over the few years we’ve known each other, to so many exciting voices in contemporary poetry from Latin America. I have no doubt that selecting just a handful of poets for this portfolio was not particularly easy.
    Translations Portfolio

  • Food of Love & Thing-in-Itself

    If the vamp and rub of planets,

  • Two Poems

    The sky spills a certain sadness after sunset,

  • Midsummer Paralysis

    A nerve was severed in my jaw—I remember numbness.

  • Two Poems

    Since a long time the parrot had been on Félicité’s mind, because

  • In Praise of Transformations

    Not always dramatic.  Often soundless.

  • Two Poems

    My old man praised himself for not being

  • Any Kind

    Look up. The sky is never constant, sometimes clouded,

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Midlife, midsummer, and an infatuation

  • The Discarded Christmas Trees

    lie on the sidewalks of New York:

  • Alone at the New Year

    An instant of awe, then, afterwards,

  • Found placed against her upper right arm

    A pin unpinned,

  • DOMESTIC

    Another word for kid is it. You always love but do not always like it.