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Plume Issue #171 November 2025

Ramon Garcia, “Totem,” (2023) acrylic and pastel on canvas, 11″ X 14″

  • Jennifer A. Sutherland reviews Erin C. Murphy’s ‘Human Resources’

    During the Great Depression, two subsidiaries of Union Carbide, now itself a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company, began digging a tunnel to divert a river so that the river could be used to power a factory.
    Book Review

  • Woloch, Waldrep, Atkins, et. al.

    Cecilia Woloch on translating Vasyl Lozynsky’s “untitled” and “On/Off” from Ukrainian into English: Translating Vasyl Lozynksy’s poems into English involved…

    The Poets and Translators Speak

  • Poems ‘From Ruins and Other Poems’ translated from Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine

    Something awakens amputated.

  • Two Poems

    goldenrod polling the rail scar’s winter margin

  • Dollymix translated from Swedish by Kristina Andersson Bicher

    You – in a violet dress. A radiant, billowing circle in a wreath of sun.

  • The Year We Went Without Retiring

    The light was so entitled and the air so inflated and full of itself, you might have thought we were in Florida or back at the Tri-City Drive-in off 495 where we would watch adult flicks and you would get sick in the tall grass from the lack of kissing or a soundtrack.

  • Two poems translated from the Ukrainian by Jessica Zychowicz & Cecilia Woloch

    As I was exiting with the baby stroller

  • “Recipe for Indifference” translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry

    We saw them, hungry, and spoke

  • Three Poems

    I am apprehensive tonight as if the fog from the drive

  • Boothill Graveyard and Boyden Cemetery

    mrs suicide : mrs arsenic : mrs dance hall girls quarreling over a man :  mrs descriptive murder in the streets of tombstone

  • Women and Monday Rondelet

    Without them, one could end up straight

  • Nin Andrews discusses her memoir, “Son of a Bird” with Sally Bliumis-Dunn 

    I absolutely adored your prose poem memoir, Son of a Bird, Nin. Thank you for taking the time to discuss it with me!
    Featured Selection

  • from The Novice Class: On the Practical Uses of Outside Poem by Amy Beeder

    I always use outside poems in workshops, no matter the level,
    Essays and Comment

  • Arcana

    The solvent alters. The durable

  • Poem with No Content

    No, not even under reconstruction, you’ve been deactivated.  A breach of contract,

  • Horse Under the Apple Tree

    How can I tell you what aging is

  • New Music: Antlia and Aquarius, from OF THE NEAR AND FAR

    I’ve always been captivated by the night sky, endlessly wondering about what lies beyond.