Plume Issues

Plume: Issue #138 February 2023

Poems

Zuzanna Ginczanka Poem by Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917-1945) translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky

Stephen Ackerman While Another Dove Nude into the Breakers

Teresa Cader Sea Otters, Missiles, Sardines

Veronica Kornberg Received Wisdom

William Trowbridge On Brueghel’s the Tower of Bable

Peter Filkins At the Grave of Robert Lowell

Peter Cooley And This is How It Happens

Natalie Louise Tombasco Dream Vision of Theodore Roethke

Maya Janson Blown Away

Maram Al-Masri Three poems from The Abduction by Maram Al-Masri, translated from French by Hélène Cardona

Hayden Saunier Spell

Daniel Tobin Anthem and Under the Sun

Daisy Bassen Madame Bovary, c’est moi

The Poets and Translators Speak
Cardona, Bassen, Filkins, et. al.

Book Review
Jody Stewart’s ‘This Momentary World’ reviewed by Timothy Liu

Featured Selection
The Occult Power of bon mots, mots justes; Quantum Hopping with Angie Estes from Nancy Mitchell

Essays and Comment
Two Essays on Charles Simic by Donovan McAbee and Chard deNiord

Plume: Issue #137 January 2023

Poems

Don Bogen Photographer’s Song & Nothing Song

Brian Culhane On Not Translating Polish Poets

Christina Lee The Classics

Jehanne Dubrow Joy

Joan Larkin Hyphen

Joseph Bathanti Agnus Dei, Winslow Wants a Gun, Omega Street

Karl Kirchwey California King, Head of the Meadow and A Miracle of Saint Anthony

Kwame Dawes Washing Women, Cathedral and Sky

nicole v basta take heed, hazard

Paula Cisewski Unbeckoning Glass and Time Faking Surprises

The Poets and Translators Speak
Culhane, basta, Cisewski, et. al.

Book Review
Say Them With Me: Disruptive Lyricism in Jos Charles’ a Year & other poems reviewed by Cassandra Whitaker

Featured Selection
Clarifying the Disorder of Catastrophe: In Conversation with Poet/Playwright Dan O’Brien by Amanda Newell

Essays and Comment
The Road Goes On Forever and The Party Never Ends by David Kirby