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PLUME Jill in Newburgh, photograph ©Lynn Saville, courtesy of the Yancey Richardson Gallery April, 2022 Welcome to Plume #128 – April, and…

PLUME James Crombie, “Murmuration”, 2021 March, 2022 Welcome to Plume Issue #127 – March, and, dear readers, I want to take a…

PLUME Peter Uka, “Quiet Listening”, 2020 February, 2022 Welcome to Plume Issue #126 – February, and on this chilly –and for some…

PLUME Diane Arbus (1923-71) Xmas tree in a living room in Levittown, L.I. 1963 January, 2022 Welcome to Plume Issue #125 –…

PLUME Les Chiens de Maria, Sarah Moon, 2007 December, 2021 Welcome to Plume #124 – December, and Thanksgiving behind us, we look…

PLUME Thierry Manon, Tableau Vivant, 2007 November, 2021 Welcome to Plume #123 – November, and I wonder if our cover art from Thierry Mandon already…

PLUME From the private collection of the Rimbaud scholar Alain Borer. October, 2021 Welcome to Plume #122 – October, and for those missing…

PLUME Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi): detail from The Lute Player, 1596 September, 2021 Welcome to Plume #121 – September, and, having just read for…

PLUME Claire Tabouret, The Grip, 2018 August, 2021 Welcome to Plume #120 – August: and with this issue we reach our 10th year of publication…

PLUME Jean Cocteau, Green Profile on Grey Background, 1955 July, 2021 Welcome to Plume Issue #119 – July: and, at last, Plume Poetry 9 is…

PLUME Jason de Graaf, Nest June, 2021 Welcome to Plume Issue #118 – June: and, rather than subject you to my usual ruminations…

PLUME Richard Prince, “Unnamed” May, 2021 Welcome to Plume Issue #117 — May: and, naturally, one thinks of Baader–Meinhof  —…

PLUME Faith Ringgold, American People Series # 20: Die 1967 April, 2021 Welcome to Plume Issue #116 —April: and, as you’ll be…

PLUME Chidinma Nnoli,  “Daughter (Nwa Nwanyi)” (2020), from the Saint Series (Onye Di Aso) March, 2021 Welcome to Plume Issue…

PLUME Billy Hickey. “Thanksgiving”. February, 2021 Welcome to Plume Issue #114 — February: and, yes, these… tumultuous last weeks in Washington,…

PLUME Gregory Crewsdon, Untitled Brief Encounter January, 2021 Welcome to Plume Issue #113 — January: and, well, I had written a different…

PLUME Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962 – 1963 December, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue #112 — December: and (excuse me while I…

PLUME Catherine Panebianco, “Momaid”, from No Memory is Ever Alone November, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue # 111 — November: and post-Halloween, though…

PLUME Lorna Simpson, “Easy to Remember” October, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue # 110 — October: and I hope this finds you…

PLUME Wilfredo Lam, Annonciation de Aime Cesaire September, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue #109 — September: and I hope this finds you well.…

PLUME Black Orchid August, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue # 108 — July: and among the many current sadnesses, I am afraid…

PLUME Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Drawing and Photograph, “The Gates” July, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue # 107 — July: and my thoughts…

PLUME André Kertész Fork, Paris, 1928  June, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue # 106 — June: and aren’t many of us,…

PLUME Fred Herzog U R Next, 1957 May, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue #105 — May: and I trust this finds you…

PLUME Jose Manuel Ballester “Francisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808” (1814) April, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue # 104 — April:…

PLUME Sam Rowley Station Squabble March, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue #103 — March: and before we get to the good bits,…

PLUME Charalampos Kydonakis from the series oNCe February, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue # 102 — February: and I want to confess…

PLUME Chris McGraw from the series “Sunburn” January, 2020 Welcome to Plume Issue #101 — January: and while here at…

PLUME Tania Franco Klein from Positive Disintegration 2019 December, 2019 Welcome to Plume Issue # 100 — December: and how it has crept upon me:…

PLUME Robert Frank, Santa Fe, New Mexico, from The Americans November, 2019 Welcome to Plume Issue # 99 — November, and…

PLUME Joel Sternfeld    from American Prospects September, 2019 Welcome to Plume Issue # 98 — October: and for once in some…

View this email in your browser PLUME Martin Orr, “Beach Therapy” September, 2019 Welcome to Plume Issue # 97 — September: and…

PLUME Robert Adams Longmont, Colorado ca 1979 August, 2019 Welcome to Plume Issue # 96 — August: and unlike my usual brief…

Andy Freeberg, from The Guardians Pertov-Vodkin’s Bathing of a Red Horse,State Teetyakov Gallery July, 2019 Welcome to Plume Issue #95 — July: and while…

Peter van Agtmael, “Disco Night Sept. 11” June, 2019 Readers Welcome to Plume  Issue #94 — June: and deviating from my…

Julien Duovier   “Untitled” May, 2019 Readers” Welcome to Plume, Issue # 93 May: and, absconded Kentuckian, I anticipate Derby Day –…

Chu Việt Hà   Hanoi  2016 April, 2019 Readers: Welcome to the April 2019 Issue #92 of Plume April: and for once no…

Alec Soth, Untitled 18, Bogotá, 2003 March, 2019 Readers: Welcome to the March 2019 Issue #91 of Plume March: and I think…

Taylor O. Thomas, Switchback (2018), Acrylic, oil, pastel, and collage on canvas, 48 x 36 inches. February, 2019 Readers: Welcome…

Lee Friedlander from the Little Screens, 1963. Readers: Welcome to the January issue (#89) of Plume. January: and one such…

Steven Shores: South of Kiamath Falls, U.S. 97, Oregon, July 21, 1973, from Uncommon Places. Readers: Welcome to the December issue…

Jacob Aue Sobol, from the series Arrivals and Departures, 2000-2017. Readers: Welcome to the November issue (# 87) of Plume. November:…

Langdon Clay, “White Tower car, Buick Electra, Meatpacking District” (1976) (courtesy Steidl, © 2016 Langdon Clay) Readers: Welcome to the October issue…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume’s September Hiatus Epistle Readers: While we are on hiatus, I thought, still, you might like hearing from us,…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 85 August: and something of an ending in the air – not yet of summer, but of…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 84 July: and taking my cue from the poem below: one can imagine a parlor game (or…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 83 June: and allow me to predict before you have read the following introduction to this month’s…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 82 May: and just returned from Louisville, my hometown, I can report that, for the moment, the…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 81 April: and, God, I’d forgotten this Norman Dubie poem! Many thanks for Adam Tavel’s recollection below. I had the…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 80 March: and my thoughts turn not to AWP and other assorted tasks, though they should, but…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 79 February: and like the author of our introduction to the “secret poem” below, I find myself…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 78 January: and a time for taking stock, of course—doesn’t it often seem the mind and the…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 77 December: and for many of you the school term almost over. A joy, I am sure,…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 76 November: and Fall-ish here in Saint Petersburg, Florida. (I know, I know.) Busy times for you,…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 75 October: and here in Florida, that means another month, maybe two, of summer.   And hurricanes? Perhaps.…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 74 September: and back to school for many of you: how I dreaded those words as…

Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 73 August: and a bit of news to follow, but, first, our “secret poem,” a splendid  appreciation…

Al Farrow “Arm Bone of Santa Guerra Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 72 June: and a bit of news to follow, but,…

“The Horse in Motion” Eadweard Muybridge 1878 Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 71 June: and some news to follow, but, first, our…

William Eggleston 7, from Troubled Waters Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 70 May: and some news to follow, but, first, our “secret…

“Bluer than Blue”, Albertus Gorman 2017 Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 69 April: and some news to follow, but, first, our…

Jeff Skinner, “Josie” 2016 Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 67 February: and perhaps even more than usual a good amount of Plume activity to…

From Un Chien Andalou – Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 66 January: and a fair amount…

“Birds Alight” Radu Nita Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 65 December: and a final notice: this newsletter now contains actual news, with…

“Drawing/Leap into the Void”  Yves Klein/János Kender Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 64 November: and a final notice: this newsletter now…

Drawing, by Max Bishop Waters   Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 63 October: and again an admonition: this newsletter now…

Don Monroe “The Gossamer Albatross under construction” Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 62 September: and perhaps you are growing accustomed to…

Claes Oldenburg Extinguished Match, 1990 August, 2016 Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 61 August: and in a moment, again, actual news.…

Muhammad Ali with his mother Odessa Grady Clay at her home in Louisville in 1963.  Credit: Photograph by Lin Caufield.…

George Etheridge Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 59 June: and you’ll note: no editorial commentary in this one — I’ve reserved…

“Silo” by Randi Ward Readers:  Welcome to Plume, Issue 58 May— and the cruelty this time not of the month even…

“Dancing in Eleggua” by Reynier Llanes Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 57 Readers —April — and the cruelty this time not…

“The Weiqi Players” Alex Hooks Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 56 Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 56— March: Madness, yes…

Nancy Mitchell “Script” Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 55 February: month in which for one, at least, Florida reveals its single…

Steven Gus Page. “I’ll tell you this.” 2010 Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 54 January: “Another year over…” But not really.…

Nicolas V. Sanchez “Bloodline” Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 53 December: Another Thanksgiving passed and the strings of lights balled in…

Chris Maynard, “9/11, Times Square” Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 51 September: and our 51th issue! And our little party catches its…

Albertus Gorman, from his website Artist at Exit 0 Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue # 50. August: And our 50th issue! That…

ALCIDES PEREIRA DOS SANTOS Varig, 1999 Acrylic on canvas, 34.25 x 75.98 inches (87 x 193 cm), Andrew Edlin Gallery…

Brian Forrest “Women Wearing Hats” oil on canvas Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue # 48. June: and once again the unlovely…

Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue # 47. May: and to begin, you’ll be happy to find below, as we begin this…

Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue # 46. April: and to begin, you’ll be happy to find below, as we begin this…

Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue # 45. March: and you’ll be happy to find below, as we begin this brief newsletter,…

Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue # 45. March: and you’ll be happy to find below, as we begin this brief…

Readers: Welcome to  Issue # 44 of Plume: First: a last wave to Philip Levine — the news received too late to…

Readers: Welcome to  Issue # 43 of Plume: You are — many of you, at least — back in harness, as one…

Readers: December: Issue # 42: Happy Holidays! First, this just in: Plume at AWP:  Friday, April 10, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. in…

Readers: November: Issue # 41: and now these little pre-Thanksgiving thoughts: so many people and their kindnesses large and small for…

Readers: November Issue # 41: and now these little pre-Thanksgiving thoughts: so many people and their kindnesses large and small…

Readers: October: Issue # 40 of Plume Poetry: and aren’t you relieved to discover no personal anecdote with which to contend in…

Readers: Welcome to Issue #39 of Plume Poetry. September: and if you have endured yet another of my little misadventures in…

Welcome to Issue # 38 of Plume. August: and echoed here the autobiographical notes of this month’s Editor’s Note, wherein I re-trace…

Welcome to Issue # 37 of Plume. In which we continue the theme of the Editor’s Note — or merely take…

Welcome to Issue # 36 of Plume. Last month, we had the occasion to mourn the passing of two remarkable poets: Nina…

Readers — Welcome to Issue #35 of Plume. Russel Edson So: another passing: death, I mean. Russell Edson’s, on 29 April.  And thus…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 34 of Plume. And, I’m afraid — or perhaps to your delight — we move…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 33 of Plume. With much to note regarding gratitude, new appointments, and such, I thought we’d offer…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 32 of Plume. And as an amuse-bouche, we begin the Newsletter — though the meal will not be…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 31 of Plume. January: And one thinks of the recent cold snap — and Antisthenes, who according…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 30 of Plume. Let me begin with a break from precedent:  presentation of  material that appears…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 29 of Plume. Yes, November — as noted: its quality almost-ness but not quite, a shadow-month…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 28 of Plume. Yes, October, and here a tablespoon of fall. Of what to speak? AWP,…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 27 of Plume. As in the Editor’s Note, I pause here, as I have paused many…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 26 of Plume. As one shies from turning on the oven these hot days (so I’m told),…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 25 of Plume. After the relative hoopla surrounding last month’s “special” issue, we beat a…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 24 of Plume. As you will soon see, this issue marks an anniversary: we are…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 23 of Plume. So: the “new” look of Plume seems to have met with your approval, and we…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 22 of Plume. As promised, our make-over, if that’s the word: connoting superficial changes,…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 21 of Plume. And welcome home – if you made it there and back: the weather…

Readers — Welcome to Issue # 20 of Plume. A short month, fortunately, and a short letter to match it – one…