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Plume: Issue #53 December 2015

Poems

William Olsen Posthumous Cabin

Tom Crawford LOVE HAS BIG TEETH | Route 140, Sixty Miles North of Winnemucca

Roal Vertov Transport | Gdańsk

Maureen Seaton What, Me?

Martha Collins Once We Were

Georges Rodenbach SUNDAYS | ALONE

Dzvinia Orlowsky The Fortieth Day | Pussy Riot/Want/Don’t/Want

David Kirby The Names

D. Nurkse Letter From The Capital

Chase Twichell Burning Leaves

Charles Baxter Innocence

Adam Tavel My Name in Sticks

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Featured Selection
Christopher Buckley: The Half-life of Revolution—Particle Physics, History, Baseball and Baby-Boomers.

Plume: Issue #52 November 2015

Poems

Major Jackson Urban Renewal

Sandra M. Gilbert Caravaggio’s Supper

Kate Falvey Cora Goes Birding

Philip Metres Club X

David Huddle Dream Sender

Ron Slate Naked City

April Bernard Paean for the Players

Dore Kiesselbach Oak | Installation

Susan Howe Elizabeth MASEFIELD IN PURGATORY | YOUR BROTHER’S FACE

Lance Larsen A Few Estrogen Stories to Help Balance the Scales | Beasts of Burden

G.C. Waldrep Undersong

Ralph Angel Untitled

The Poets and Translators Speak
EDITOR’S NOTE

Featured Selection
Marc Vincenz: SIBYLLINE

Plume: Issue #51 September 2015

Poems

Peter Cooley A Few Years After a Death

Phillis Levin As It Happens

Julie Bruck The Good Hand

Molly Peacock Gusto

Nin Andrews The Last Orgasm

Alan Shapiro Let Me Hear You

Alicia Ostriker The Mystery

Krzysztof Jaworski Self-Portrait to Be Used in Meditation | 22 | Chesty Morgan and Her Crazy-Ass Titties

Timothy Liu BOTTOM FEEDER | DOUBLE TIME

Scott Withiam The Elms | For the Collection

Peter Campion Uncle

Cynthia Hogue The Wayfarer

The Poets and Translators Speak
EDITOR’S NOTE

Featured Selection
Adam Tavel: Catafalque

Plume: Issue #50 August 2015

Poems

Nicolae Coande THE BRIDGE

Marianne Boruch A BAT IN THE HOUSE

Hala Alyan AFTER THUNDERSTORMS IN OKLAHOMA

Daniel Tobin ALCHEMICAL MEDITATION

Eric Pankey THE COMPLETE LIST OF EVERYTHING

Arthur Vogelsang CONCRETE

C Dale Young THE LIGHTS ON THE BOATS

Steve Kronen ON PAINTING THE SISTINE CHAPEL: MICHELANGELO TO GIOVANNI DA PISTOIA

Sarah Estes PASTORAL

Teresa Cader POSTSCRIPT

Kate Daniels SHE-POETS CENTO

John Skoyles SPITE FENCE | THE HUMAN CANARY

William Trowbridge YA KNOW? | LITTLE-KNOWN ROYAL COGNOMENS

The Poets and Translators Speak
EDITOR’S NOTE #50

Featured Selection
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke: A Folio of Indigenous Poets

Plume: Issue #49 July 2015

Poems

Bruce Bond SOLILOQUY OF A TORNADO IN THE DISTANCE

Christopher Crawford My Father Taught Me To Fish | Hmmmmm

Sylva Fischerová IN PROFILE

Beckian Fritz Goldberg Enchanted Egg #2

Arielle Greenberg Two Fat Braids Crossed at the Crown

Kelle Groom THE LOST MUSEUM | GOODBYE TO A

Karl Kirchwey The Tiger | Friendship

Frannie Lindsay TENEBRAE

Suzanne Lummis Flour, Eggs, Milk, Baking Powder, Salt and God

Tara Skurtu NIGHT COMMUNION

Bruce Smith I hitchhiked through Harrisburg once: night and some light dislocating, | A self beyond herself singed by the stars, fundamentally | Not the violent deaths that follow you around [if you were black] but the slow

Jim Somers REMEMBERING RAY – AUG. 2,1998 – FOR TESS

The Poets and Translators Speak
EDITOR’S POST #49

Featured Selection
David Clewell BETWEEN THE SIXTIES AND THE SAUCERS

Plume: Issue #48 June 2015

Poems

Lloyd Schwartz IS LIGHT ENOUGH ?

Jürgen Becker A Provisional Topography | One of the Many Stories of Sounds | Sooner or Later

Jehanne Dubrow ELEGY WITH FULL DRESS BLUES

Christopher Kennedy Against Surrealism | Anima

Charles Harper Webb KINDNESS DETECTOR | TRUTH IN ADVERTISING |

Chard deNiord THE DAY

Carol Moldaw SIXTH GRADE REDUX

Carol Frost POPULATION ZERO

Campbell McGrath TO HÉCTOR VIEL TEMPERLEY

Bob Hicok Busy bees | Torture

Annie Finch TAROT: THE EMPRESS

Andrei Codrescu love sonnet to aliens | Putin statue project

The Poets and Translators Speak
EDITORS NOTE #48

Featured Selection
Carol Moldaw: Dew Point

Plume: Issue #47 May 2015

Poems

Cathleen Calbert OÚ EST LE CHAT

Nicole Cooley SELF PORTRAIT IN THE BACKYARD AS MOTHER

Affonso Romano Sant’Anna GETTING READY THE HOUSE | THEY ARE MOVING ALONG

Elaine Equi THE SECRET OF TIME MEETS A STRANGER

Jeffrey Harrison THINNING THE SPRUCES

Henry Israeli ON EVERY HAND A GREAT PLAIN By Henry Israeli

Donald Revell FREE VERSE

Alberto Rios WORDS IN THE WOODS

Deema K. Shehabi GHAZAL 4

Alan Shapiro ARCHIMEDES

Will Stone NIGHT SPIDER

Tim Suermondt LOOKING FOR ZAGAJEWSKI UNDER THE COUCH

Diane Wakoski THE LEAVES HAVE NO PITY

The Poets and Translators Speak
EDITOR’S NOTE

Featured Selection
On Philip Levine

Plume: Issue #46 April 2015

Poems

Sandra Alcosser PAPERS

Tara Betts THE COURTING

Andrei Codrescu cedar top goddesses from phil’s sawmill | ozark sonnet

Stephen Dunn WHY WE NEED UNIONS

Angie Estes LA LONGUE DURÉE

Anatoly Kudryavitsky CHINATOWN

Sydney Lea OLD HUSBAND’S TALES

Nancy Mitchell SMOKE GHOST SMOKE

Lia Purpura Loud Walk in Fall | Regret

Barbara Ras SOME FAITH

Terese Svoboda DEATH MARCH

Santiago Vizcaíno It was never he, | One might say I’ve fulfilled the miserable obligation of constructing myself.

The Poets and Translators Speak
EDITOR’S NOTE #46

Featured Selection
Nin Andrews: The Continuing Adventures of “O”

Plume: Issue #44 February 2015

Poems

Scott Cairns Babel’s Artifacts

Andrea Cohen My Raincoat Opens Doors for Me

Michael Collier To Isabella Franconati

Brian Culhane Remembering Lethe

Catherine Breese Davis The Willows in Winter in the Boston Public Garden

Luigi Fontanella I Had a Cheerful and Gentle Dog

Deborah Landau from THE CITY OF PARIS HAS YOU IN MIND TONIGHT

Lance Larsen All Night, Give or Take a Sloppy Hour

Sydney Lea Annie Fitch’s Duck Sauce

Leslie Adrienne Miller ELK | RUE MOUFFETARD |

Linda Pastan Cosmology

Jane Springer Woo | Red Rover

Featured Selection
Luljeta LLeshanaku: Homelands

Plume: Issue #43 January 2015

Poems

Shamshad Abdullaev A ROMANCE | DOUBLED MIDDAY

Ciaran Berry Stopping At Whole Foods on a Snowy Evening

Steve Bradbury On a Version of “Lady with Lapdog” | Synch

Dorothy Chan Centerfold of the Year | Centerfold of the Month: Rabbit Season | Centerfold of the Month: Judgment

Andrée Chedid Before the rebirth | The harvest field | Song of love present

Bruce Cohen The Uncanny

Billy Collins View From a Shrinking Floe

Alice Derry Listening to Stone

Alicia Ostriker Q&A

Clare Rossini The Albino Squirrel

Grace Schulman The Lost Explorers

Hsia Yü from Fourteen Fourteenliners

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Featured Selection
Daniel Bourne and Tadeusz Dziewanowski: Reading Between the Lands