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PLUME from       Museu-d’Art-Contemporani-de-Barcelona              ©Hiroshi Watanabe, www.hiroshiwatanabe.com May, 2025 Welcome to Plume Issue #165, May, and,…

PLUME Bad Brains, 10.20.82 April, 2025 Welcome to Plume Issue #164, April, and, as it is Poetry Month, I thought: Why…

PLUME Adolpho Gottlieb, lithograph March, 2025 Welcome to Plume #163 March, and an anniversary of sorts: five years since my older…

PLUME The Catacombs,  Bethany Eden Jacobson February, 2025 Welcome to Plume #162 February, and, I wonder, Has this happened to you?…

PLUME The Catacombs,  Bethany Eden Jacobson January, 2025 Welcome to Plume #161 January 1, and, Readers, what to say, to think…

PLUME Lyonel Feininger, Gaberndorf II, 1924 December, 2024 Welcome to Plume #160 December, and first, allow me to thank you, Readers, for the many…

PLUME Igor Bozhko, “Untitled” November, 2024 Welcome to Plume #159 November, and rather than suffer through another of my introductory meanderings into…

PLUME Man on White, Woman on Red / Man with Black Dog by Bill Traylor October, 2024 Welcome to Plume #158 October,…

Henri Matisse, Portrait with Pink and Blue Face September, 2024 Welcome to Plume #157 September, and to make way for a bit of…

PLUME Casas en Alto, Xul Solar (Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari), 1922 August, 2024 Welcome to Plume #156 August, and noodling around this…

PLUME Amy Beeder, Nativity July, 2024 Welcome to Plume #155 July, and fresh from the ring light of Sunday afternoon’s Zoom session with…

PLUME Otto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden, 1926 June, 2024 Welcome to Plume #154! June, and even here in Florida, with the great exceptions…

PLUME Eclipse with Colanders  Nancy Mitchell, April, 2024. May, 2024 Welcome to Plume #153! May, and on my mind this evening is…

PLUME Karl Brendel 1912-1913, “Head”  (Bread, kneaded) April, 2024 Welcome to Plume #152! April, and for a moment, allow me to…

PLUME Fox, etching by Brian D. Cohen, 4 x 7″, 2018 March, 2024 Welcome to Plume #151! March, and fresh from a session…

PLUME Miki Fedun, “Kyiv, 2017” February, 2024 Welcome to Plume #150! February, and — for a moment, let me draw your…

PLUME Megan Marlatt “Salt and Pepper Shakers” 2019 Papier-mâché 21”h x 15”w x 15”d each January, 2024 Welcome to Plume #149!…

PLUME Portrait of Terentius Neo, Pompeii, AD 20–30 December, 2023 Welcome to Plume#148! December, and, upon first reading this month’s essay, below,…

PLUME Barn, Lake George (1936),  Alfred Stieglitz. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago. November, 2023 Welcome to Plume#147! November, and a…

PLUME Man Ray, Departure of Summer, 1916, oil, canvas October, 2023 Welcome to Plume#146! October, and perhaps for you, like me, a month in…

PLUME Helene English, Lightnin’ Hopkins Texas Blues Man Oil on Canvas 15” x 15” September, 2023 Welcome to Plume #145! August,…

PLUME Charles Henry Alston, Barn and Tree August, 2023 Welcome to Plume #144! August, and as you no doubt do not recall, last…

PLUME Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Blaise Cendrars, 1917 July, 2023 Welcome to Plume #143! July – and, strolling around the usual online archives…

PLUME Nadya Brown, “Parthenos” June, 2023 Welcome to Plume #142– June –and, for the second month in a row, some real news.…

PLUME Photo Credit: The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation / Art Resource, NY Artist: Lawrence, Jacob (1917-2000) © ARS, NY…

PLUME Franz Marc, The Foxes, 1913 April, 2023 Welcome to Plume #140– April –and, as another birthday approaches, out for a…

PLUME Max Beckmann, Doppelbildnis, 1923 March, 2023 Welcome to Plume #139 – March – and, again, just as our February issue found its way…

PLUME George Stubbs, Molly Long-legs with her Jockey, 1761-1762 February, 2023 Welcome to Plume #138 – February – and, happily, first to the…

PLUME Paulette Tavormina Crabs and Lemon, after P.C., digital pigment print from the series Natura Morta, 2009 January, 2023 Welcome to…

PLUME Brian D. Cohen, Martyr, etching and drypoint, 5 x 5″, 2017 December, 2022 Welcome to Plume #136 – December, and the semi-final promotion…

PLUME California Hallway, c 1940 Narcissa Niblack Thorne October, 2022 Welcome to Plume #134 October, and once again this month,…

PLUME From five guaches by Dike Blair, courtesy of the artist and Karma, New York City September, 2022 Welcome to Plume #133…

PLUME George Shiras III, Untitled c 1900 August, 2022 Welcome to Plume #132 – August, and, as successive glances at last month’s…

PLUME Michal Dyjuk, from Cows can smell the scent of death July, 2022 Welcome to Plume #131 – July, and of late…

PLUME Hendrik Kerstens,  “Cosy” June, 2022 Welcome to Plume #130 – June, and a first for the newsletter, I think: I want…

PLUME Ephrem Solomon Folk Memory 3, Woodcut and mixed media, 2015 May, 2022 Welcome to Plume #129 – May, and in lieu…

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…