Plume Issues
Plume: Plume Issue #157 September 2024
Poems
Three poems by Nadia Mifsud translated from Maltese by Miriam Calleja
Brasserie and An Annunciation of Blue
Three poems by Li Suo translated from Chinese by Lucas Klein and Henry Zhang
Phone Call: Lesson in Style and The Story of Civilization
Liebfraumilch, Scale and Season
At the Kitchen Sink and While the Cows Stood Still
Tom’s Sublet and Without Longing, What?
The Poets and Translators Speak
Smith, Bathanti, Hartman, et. al.
Book Review
John Yau’s “Tell It Slant” reviewed by Timothy Liu
Featured Selection
Judy Katz’s How News Travels: Sally Bliumis-Dunn and Jessica Greenbaum Add Up its Wonders
Essays and Comment
THE SEXY SENTENCE by Neil Shepard
Plume: Plume Issue #156 August 2024
Poems
Three Poems translated from Chinese by Steven Bradbury
The White Door and White Green Red Tree Stone Sun
Who Will Plant the Seeds of Svalbard and Orchard Fruit: Grafting
The Poets and Translators Speak
Weaver, Mort and Threefoot, et. al.
Book Review
Victoria Chang’s With My Back to the World reviewed by Linda Mills Woolsey
Featured Selection
On making disorder make sense, on learning the voice of another: Interview with poet and translator David Rigsbee by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Judith Vollmer
Essays and Comment
“Under Construction, An Ekphrastic Essay” by Richard Hoffman and JD Scrimgeour
Plume: Plume Issue #155 July 2024
Poems
Daniel J. Ayoroa translated from Spanish by Frances Simán and Mihaela Moscaliuc
Two Poems translated from Spanish by Diana Conchado
The Neighbor’s War and Walking Backwards
The Poets and Translators Speak
Lea, Ackerman, Stanton, et. al.
Book Review
Timothy Liu on Hafiz’s “Little Book of Life”
Featured Selection
Peter Campion’s “Unidentified Animal” | A Brief Portfolio and An Interview with Amanda Newell
Essays and Comment
The Empty Bowl: Metaphor as Meaning by Michael Simms
Special Feature
Seven Slovene Poets introduced by Sydney Lea
Plume: Plume Issue #154 June 2024
Poems
Guardian Angels Witness More Lives Than Yours
Three prose poems by Marie Lundquist translated from Swedish by Malena Mörling
Gott im Himmel and The Corner of Bellington Street and Sparta
I Can’t Tell If the Light Is Whispering “Loss” in My Ear or Imprinting Darkness on My Body
The Poets and Translators Speak
Vasantkumar, Laichas, Clark et. al.
Book Review
Dan O’Brien’s ‘Survivor’s Notebook’ reviewed by Amanda Newell
Featured Selection
Wind and Shadows: In Pursuit of a Grandfather’s Story: A Conversation with Tyler Mills by Frances Richey
Essays and Comment
The Literary Fragment, Black Humor, and the Ampersand: Three Short Essays by Peter Johnson
Station to Station
Mitchell | Nieves
Plume: Plume Issue #153 May 2024
Poems
Two Poems translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé
Gott im Himmel and The Corner of Bellington Street and Sparta
Three Poems translated from Argentinian Spanish by Lorena Wolfman
Kintsugi and We Did Not Murder One Another
“October, and the sun burnishes”
[There was the way his mother]
Puritan Watc, Yonder and Birthday
In Waterplace Park on Our 15th Anniversary
How the West Was Won and Crack in the World
The Poets and Translators Speak
Culver, Berdeshevsky, Cader, et. al.
Book Review
Penelope Pelizzon’s A Gaze Hound that Hunteth by the Eye reviewed by Jane Zwart
Featured Selection
The Other by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Essays and Comment
Villanelles and the Art of Anguish by Maggie Dietz
Special Feature
Meandering, Ebbing and Flowing with Slow Water: Stephan Crump and Nancy Mitchell
Plume: Plume Issue # 152 April 2024
Poems
The Insurgency of Tears is to Eradicate Sadness and Hold Joy as Close as the Moon
Picking Prunes and The Majestic Theatre
Bystander Effect, Permanence and Weapon
The City translated by Kaveh Bassiri
A Series of Small Scandals and Dear Telephone Booth,
Two Poems translated by Connie Voisine
Train to Naples and “It’s Awful Plain”
The Poets and Translators Speak
Voisine, Bassiri, Woloch, et. al.
Book Review
Timothy Liu Ruminates on Timmy Straw’s ‘The Thomas Salto’ in Five Short Lyrics
Featured Selection
James Crews: The Poetry of Connection and Joy, A conversation with Michael Simms
Essays and Comment
“The End” an essay by Heather McHugh
Station to Station
Lummis | Laichas
Plume: Plume Issue #151 March 2024
Poems
Grandpa David Told Me Once of Carpathia, a Place He had Never Been
The Minefield and Uncanny Daddy
Piano Epistemology, Apostrophes and Beauty
Dear— and On Misreading a Line by Mario de Andrade
The Poets and Translators Speak
Freeman, Sholl, Aizenberg, et. al.
Book Review
Sarabande’s Another Last Call: poems on addiction and deliverance reviewed by Celeste Lipkes
Featured Selection
Writing Internationally: Ian Haight in conversation with Tzveta Sofronieva
Essays and Comment
Uncovering What Is Brave: A Remembrance of Brigit Pegeen Kelly by Joy Manesiotis and Maxine Scates
Plume: Plume Issue #150 February 2024
Poems
Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed
Unrest or What the French Horn Can Teach You
Ode to Hands translated from Spanish by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Juan Suárez Proaño
Hymn of the Squirrels, Echidna Tremens and Singled Out
The Angels’ Share and Poem Without a Title
Streak, Exit Survey and Against All Endings
Dear Lucinda Williams and Dear Jules
The Poets and Translators Speak
Smith, Purpura, Zwart, et. al.
Book Review
Rae Armantrout’s “Notice” reviewed by James Sherry
Featured Selection
Dispatches From Lviv, A Conversation With Halyna Kruk, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Ali Kinsella, and Chard deNiord
Essays and Comment
Sexy Beast: The Song of Solomon by Barbara Hamby
Plume: Issue #149 January 2024
Poems
The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer
The Poets and Translators Speak
Ulku, Buckley, Warren, et. al.
Book Review
Review of Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali by Jane Zwart
Featured Selection
“unalone” with Jessica Jacobs: A conversation with Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment
On Reading with an a Open Heart by Alpay Ulku
Station to Station
Richey | Johnson