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Plume Issue #164 April 2025

Bad Brains, 10.20.82

  • Maslova, Muske-Dukes, Karetnick, et. al.

    Olga Maslova on her four poems: Light—Thesaurus began when I was watching the light spread through the maple leaves on…

    The Poets and Translators Speak

  • St. Rose of Lima

    Lips weary with chapped hallelujahs,

  • Four Poems

    The word for light is light

  • Standing in a Field

    what I saw

  • Snowfall, with Reconciliation

    How old winter is. However much we stain

  • Two Poems translated from Chinese by Liang Yujing

    Darling, the bed you left at

  • Five Poems

    Trembles on a wall,

  • Two Poems translated from Swedish by Robert Hedin

    We met Ogden Armour’s yacht

  • In Praise of Aporia by Doug Anderson

    Plato used the word “aporia” to name the point beyond which a logical argument can’t proceed.
    Essays and Comment

  • Two Poems

    To hunker

  • Virginia Konchan’s “Requiem” reviewed by Heather Treseler

    “I have already faced The Worst… [and] can enjoy life simply for what it is: a continuous job,” Sylvia Plath wrote
    Book Review

  • Elegy for Jane

    Blue cab grapes clustered on trellis

  • Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing

    Humble as fruit flies may seem, they . . . engage in a host of complex behaviors

  • Making the Invisible Visible: A Conversation with Phillis Levin by Frances Richey

    Making the Invisible Visible     A Conversation with Phillis Levin by Frances Richey     Phillis Levin’s new collection,…

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