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…
Portrait de Blaise Cendrars par Modigliani (1917) Readers: Welcome to Plume, Issue 68 March: and many thanks to follow – AWP news, mostly. But…
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…
