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Plume Issue #167 July 2025

Arthur Segal, Still Life with a Window, 1935

  • An interview with Elsa Cross by Ramón García

    ELSA CROSS is one of Mexico’s most prominent poets.  A prolific poet and scholar, she has published over twenty-five books of poetry.
    Featured Selection

  • Beasley, Bruck, Friman, et. al.

    Bruce Beasley on his Two Poems: “Considering the Extraordinary Lateness of the Hour” is an eschatological poem (one facing the…

    The Poets and Translators Speak

  • Two Poems translated from the Faroese by Randi Ward

    The first time I was in London,

  • Two Poems

    One summer night I lay down under a yew tree.

  • “Summer with Monika” translated from Polish by Scotia Gilroy

    we spent the days lying on the hot asphalt, fleeing

  • A Brief Portfolio

    Look, there’s Mom with a cup of flour and a cup of time, staring into her blue bowl.

  • Three Poems

    It was a beauty, made by the Hmong in Laos

  • Daniel Whipped at the Market, St. Augustine, 1849

    What makes memory?

  • At sunset translated from Spanish by Paula J. Lambert

    the dragonfly perches on the river waiting for a breeze

  • Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Sylvia Plath! An essay by David Kirby

    It’s a June evening near midnight, and I’m sitting in a boat moored on the Seine in the heart of Paris.
    Essays and Comment

  • Slaughtered Ox

    Too easy, to take the body as a distraction—

  • Vocal

    Outgrown, the prairie lot

  • Two Poems

    might it not behoove us to retire, to pull away

  • Adrie Kusserow’s “The Trauma Mantras” reviewed by Chard deNiord

    In a series of sixty-six prose poems that concatenate as memorable “reports” on her journeys from her home in Underhill, Vermont to Bhutan, Dharmsala, India...
    Book Review

  • Three Poems

    I never saw the children who lived next door,

  • Two Poems

    Black, faux-leather cover with gold trim—