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
  • Misfortune of the New Moon 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,…

    Featured Selection