Plume Issues

Plume: Issue #65 December 2016

Poems

Tony Hoagland OLD LOVE LETTERS

Simon Armintage Nurse at a Bus Stop

William Logan Night World | The Gentle Soul

Angela Marinescu ATTRACTION

Robert Clinton SOMETHING LIKE A WING

Joshua Mensch A Photo Of My Father That Doesn’t Actually Exist and Take The Body From The Ground

Gerald Stern Micah

Elizabeth Metzger Delete the Bird

Elizabeth Jacobson All the time I pray to Buddha…

Donald Revell LEONTES

Denise Duhamel ALL THE BOYS

Annette Barnes SPENCER HILL

Charles Harper Webb KINDNESS DETECTOR | TRUTH IN ADVERTISING

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
In Brief: Hera Lindsay Bird, Michelle Bitting, Bruce Bond, Aracelis Girmay, Connie Wanek

Featured Selection
Linda Pastan: The Secret Giver

Essays and Comment
Amish Trivedi: Confessions of a Contest Junkie

Plume: Issue #64 November 2016

Poems

G.C. Waldrep CROYLAND ABBEY

Tara Skurtu BRAINS | ECLIPSE

Rachel Careau The Old Pythagorean | Wish You Were Here

Philip Metres Curriculum Vitae | Ode to Silo City

Ricardo Pau-Llosa GDR CHINA | LAMB

Michael Homolka Listen Up Medusa | Personal Narrative

Mark Irwin Sometimes,

Jules Gibbs WOMAN CAVE | MODERN ORIGAMI

Jennifer Michael Hecht Anti-Gravity Time Machine

David Huddle What’s Real? | Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?

Laure-Anne Bosselaar JANUARY

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Mark Yakich: Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide

Featured Selection
Brian Swann: “I THINK I WOULD RATHER BE/ A PAINTER”

Essays and Comment
Linda Ashok: Letter from India: Worshiping the Stone Manasa

Plume: Issue #63 October 2016

Poems

W.S. Di Piero THE RAIN SO COLD

Simona Popescu EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

Sally Bliumis-Dunn Berlin

Max Ritvo THE CURVE

Mikhail Eremin It may well be, behind your back – one need only look back | Out of the crimson dawn one third the size of an icon’s

Julie Bruck HER MOUTH

Joyce Peseroff LA CASA BELLINA

Jerome Sala ON RETREAT | POLAND SPRING MANDARIN ORANGE

Jay Hopler NOT ALL SKELETONS ARE MUSEUM QUALITY

Cynthia Hogue Will flames lap? Leap? | The Country Stairs

Carol Frost DOG CITY

Bruce Bond Contagions of the Visible

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Lucia Perillo: Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems

Featured Selection
Max Ritvo: Rococo Doodad Shop

Essays and Comment
Lawrence Raab: POETRY AND STUPIDITY

Plume: Issue #62 September 2016

Poems

Vítězslav Nezval The Sunflower

Hank Lazer N27P23 (2/2/14) | N27P26 (2/7/14) | N27P29 (2/9/14)

Zhu Zhu the kitchen song

Troy Jollimore WHEN EVENING COMES

Tom Sleigh The Drowned and the Saved

Kuno Raeber THE ABDUCTION | INSIGHT | THE FOUNTAIN

Sharon Kubasak Drive-in Double Dare

Rachel Hadas Rose-Scented Lotion | Blue

Pierre Joris Lag sol time

Norman Dubie The Arithmetic Teacher Living in Six Meticulous Fields of Sweet

Martinus Nijhoff The Child and I

Dorothy Chan What is Love in Tennis, and What is Love | Nude from Here to Eternity

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Grevel Lindop: Luna Park

Featured Selection
Dore Kiesselbach: Albatross

Essays and Comment
Robert Archambeau: The Barbarian Invasion of Poetry (Hurrah!)

Plume: Issue #61 August 2016

Poems

Max Ritvo MOMMY HARANGUES POOR RANDAL | TO RANDAL, CROW-STEALER, LORD OF THE GREENHOUSE

Peter Cooley PRESENTIMENTS

Michael Van Walleghen THE BEAR IN THE WHEELCHAIR

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet Those little plastic number puzzles | Linnaean

Kelly Cherry Yard Art in Georgia

Julianna Baggott Suburban Landscape, Summer

John Kinsella Mantra Post- Storm Desmond

Jennifer O’Grady VISITORS

Jean Follain from Canisy

Hilde Weisert The Transit Hall on Pier 86

Brad Richard LIMESTONE GHAZAL

Angela Ball Grade School Cafeteria

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Mahtem Shiferraw: Fuschia

Featured Selection
Jean Valentine: To Stay Open

Plume: Issue #60 July 2016

Poems

Floyd Skloot LATE

Reginald Gibbons Three Poems

Rae Armantrout SPUN | FUNNEL

Philip Fried Prequel

Nin Andrews Three Orgasm Poems

Linda Pastan The Quarry, Pontaise

Kimberly Johnson Florida

Denise Duhamel THE OMEN IN WOMEN

Christopher Kennedy Clues from the Animal Kingdom

Charles Bernstein 80 Words for Rosmarie Waldrop at 80

Amy Gerstler Ruler of Everything

Amit Majmudar Three Dances | Early Warning System

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Adrian C. Louis: Random Exorcisms

Featured Selection
Our Back Pages

Plume: Issue #59 June 2016

Poems

Bob Hicok From the grab bag of desire

Bruce Cohen Mishap

Eleni Sikelianos WHO did the blue school

Jana Prikryl Stanley Cavell Pauses on the Aventine | A Package Tour

Keith Flynn Tranquility & Tremolo

Marianne Boruch THE HEAD TRANSPLANT

Mark Jarman Yahrzeit

Martha Rhodes Potato | The Surface

Okla Elliott Possibility of Erasure | There Are Corpses Buried in Them

Robert Nazarene Me & Whiskey

Susan Rich Geology Lessons

Margo Berdeshevsky FOLDED WING | Pig, a sequel | Ode to Solitude

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Christopher DeWeese: The Father of the Arrow Is the Thought & Amelia Martens: The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat

Featured Selection
Ira Sadoff: “…an attentive laboring.”

Plume: Issue #58 May 2016

Poems

Kathleen Flenniken Compare the movement of swallows

Wendy Barker SUNDAY LUNCH AT MOM’S COUSIN DINNIE’S: JUNE 1969 | “ELEGANT,” SHE SAID

Albert Goldbarth Spelling / Complication

Nicolas Born Lüneburg Station, April 30, 1976

Brionne Janae POSTCARD

Ira Sadoff BY THE MEADOWS OF HAY BALES

Flávia Rocha To Manuel Bandeira | To Hilda Hilst | To Adélia Prado

Davis McCombs Road Trip

Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow WILSER LOPEZ WOULD LIKE YOU

Simon Armintage Ambition

Barbara Ras Eggs

David Rivard Call & Response

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Editor: The Oppens Remembered

Featured Selection
Thomas McCarthy: The Sacred Hours

Plume: Issue #57 April 2016

Poems

Olivia McCannon INVENTORY | CAKE TIN

Affonso Romano Sant’Anna GETTING READY THE HOUSE

Amelia Martens MARATHON | SHORELINE

Chelsea Wagenaar Shoulder

Christopher Crawford De Profundis | Sea Song for Couples in Love

Jeff Friedman Tails | On the Other Side

Jay Hopler A MORAL VICTORY IS STILL A DEFEAT

Jennifer O’Grady FIREFLIES

Margo Berdeshevsky PULSE

Sally Ball Sieverts and Joules | Plate 136 Butter Lamp With Moths

Terese Svoboda Bridge Thrill

Molly Peacock A Face, A Cup

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
In Brief: Bond, de la O, Denham, & Moeggenberg

Featured Selection
Lawrence Matsuda and Tess Gallagher: “Blue Cocoon”

Plume: Issue #56 March 2016

Poems

Anatoly Kudryavitsky Somewhere in Eastern Europe

Frannie Lindsay To a Man in Rags Holding Out a Cup | A 100-year-old Man Asks Me to Write about Something

Simona Popescu EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

Andrea Cohen The Way Forward | Fountainebleau

Beckian Fritz Goldberg Bird of Paradise

Cole Swensen The Fourth Walk

Cornelius Eady Ars Poetica

Ed Meek Just Before Sunset in December

Marilyn Kallet Before | Ode to Late Autumn, Auvillar

Melina Papadopoulos The Fruit Bat of Taxidermy

Jonathan Weinert With My Senses in Ruins | Scavenge and Transform

Ricardo Pau-Llosa SQUANDERED MOONS

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Robert Atler, Editor: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

Featured Selection
Cynthia Cruz: “Duras, the Mystic”

Plume: Issue #55 February 2016

Poems

Carrie Etter Song a Year After My Mother’s Death

Geoffrey Young GET ON YOUR PONY AND RIDE | BIG WHEEL

Thomas Lux The Day

Ron Smith Winkles & Dillisk

Kelli Russell Agodon Two Poems | Kelli Russell Agodon

José Manuel Cardona Poem to Circe IV

Gail Mazur Elephant Memory

Devin Johnston Hunger Abstract

Chris Shipman The Movie My Murderer Makes

Carol Frost City Harbor

Barbara Hamby Ode to Roadside Shrines

Alan Shapiro Houses

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Greta Stoddart: Alive Alive O

Featured Selection
Emmanuel Moses A Mutual Rêverie

Plume: Issue #54 January 2016

Poems

William Logan On the Banks of the Allegheny

Larissa Shmailo YOUR PROBABILITY AMPLITUDE | A fragment from The Llatease of Homey, from a recently discovered Mycenaean text.

Jacques Réda Two Views of Bercy

Frannie Lindsay The Barn

Angie Estes I’LL CALL YOU THIS AFTERNOON,

Linda Pastan Ferns | Cycle

Daniel Bourne Lily of the Forest

Peter Cole For a Theophoric Figure

Carl Phillips Revolver

Ani Gjika DHIMITRI

Afaa Michael Weaver Mass Production

Paola Antonetta Susanne I Became Friends | When I Was Fifteen | I Can Recall

The Poets and Translators Speak
Editor’s Note

Book Review
Daneen Wardrop: Cyclorama & Reginald Dwayne Betts: Bastards of the Reagan Era

Featured Selection
Dick Allen: Of Mountains, and Bird’s Nest Soup, and Charles Lindberg