Plume Issues

Plume: Issue #100 December 2019

Poems

Bruce Bond Skin and Arioso

Nancy Mitchell Chocolate on my new pajamas

Terese Svoboda Wrapped in Paper and String

Molly Peacock Clothes

Carol Moldaw On Being Mused Upon

Phillis Levin How It Is

Karl Kirchwey Edinburgh University Anatomical Collection

Hoyt Rogers Heard in Claesz

Joan Houlihan Blind Trust

D. Nurkse Game with a Mad Bounce

Bruce Smith DOMINION HELD AND ALTERED BY CHILDREN

Bridget Lowe Outhouse with Maggots

Arthur Sze Circumference & Earthrise

Aaron Coleman We Lay Our Fear in a Wicker Basket

The Poets and Translators Speak
Svoboda, Lowe, Houlihan, et. al.

Book Review
Richard Greenfield reviews “NOS” by Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman

Featured Selection
Plume Staff Choices

Essays and Comment
BLURRED LINES, SOME THOUGHTS ON HYBRID, LIMINAL, AND PROSE POETRY

Plume: Issue #99 November 2019

Poems

Ron Houchin Winter Landscape with Bird Trap

Lynn Emanuel Late Elegy for Charlotte

Nin Andrews The Definition of Postmodernism & If

Rae Armantrout Transfer

Sally Bliumis-Dunn Elegy

Brian Swann RETURN OF THE HERO

William Logan The Orders of the Ordinary

Neil Silberblatt Hagstrom

John A. Nieves A Five-Years-Late Note to Jake Adam York

John Fitzgerald The Charter of Effects

Jeffrey Harrison SCENE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH IN A DREAM

Jay Parini Into the Flame

Dean Kostos FENG SHUI & PARANOID X-RAY

David Lehman Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, On Freud’s Birthday [May 5] & In Vienna

The Poets and Translators Speak
Silberblatt, Harrison, Armantrout, et. al.

Book Review
Nathaniel Tarn reviews Joseph Donahue’s “Wind Maps I-VII”

Featured Selection
The Neural Lyre: An Interview with Richard Kenney by Amy Beeder

Essays and Comment
SUMMER UNDID ME: GUERLAIN IMPERIALE (BEDROOM), 1853

Plume: Issue #98 October 2019

Poems

Daisy Fried The Deposition

Page Hill Starzinger Black Apples & Landing

Stephanie Burt After Callimachus

Daniele Pantano Fallow Ground & Geometries of Exile (or)

David Wojahn Borges at Dolphin Books: New Orleans, 1982

Patricia Spears Jones Milk Ice

Peter Campion Government Center

Tanya Grae The Path of Non-Attachment

William Lessard mother of stains

Mihaela Moscaliuc The House

Linda Pastan My Obituary

John Brehm I Decided to Weigh My Head

Jeffrey Skinner Failure, an Update

The Poets and Translators Speak
Grae, Starzinger & Brehm, et. al.

Book Review
John Tipton reviews Carsten René Nielsen’s “Forty-one Objects”

Featured Selection
Daisy Fried: On Jesus, Uncertainty, Risk, and Imagination. Interview by Amanda Newell

Essays and Comment
On Ross Gay’s Likely Dispassion

Plume: Issue #97 September 2019

Poems

J.T. Barbarese No Selfies For Mary & Pater Noster

Lisa Russ Spaar Magical Thinking

Matthew Zapruder 3:14 PM

Jules Gibbs Rain Sonnets

Jan Freeman My Father Was a Honey Bee

Elizabeth Metzger What We Do with What We Are

Elizabeth A. I. Powell So What

Donald Revell UBI AMOR IBI OCULUS EST

Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow I’ll Be Fine

Christopher Buckley Post Structuralism

Alice Friman Swan Song

Alan Shapiro Divorce Party Bonfire

The Poets and Translators Speak
Buckley, Friman & Barbarese et. al.

Book Review
Lea Graham reviews Michael Anania’s “Nightsongs & Clamors”

Featured Selection
Hailey Leithauser Interviewed by Amy Beeder

Essays and Comment
Suspense, Suspension, and the Sublime in the Poetry of Robert Frost

Plume: Issue #96 August 2019

Poems

Ruy Belo The Poet in a Streetcar & The Sunflower of Rio de Onor

Tom Sleigh Code

André du Bouchet Dawn Without Sun & Mist Gently Smothers Sight

Troy Jollimore Synecdoche, New York

Robert Hilles The Maker

Peter Cooley Interrogations Update & Mythos

Paul Nemser The Dead, At Home,

Jennifer Maier The Occupant Imagines the House as a Great Fish & Eight Things…

David Baker Masque

Dara Elerath Testimony of an Armless Man

J.T. Barbarese DIEU! QU’IL LA FAIT & ON THE RIVERLINE

Amanda Newell Quotidian and Carry

The Poets and Translators Speak
Jollimore, Newell, Cooley et. al.

Book Review
Erin Lyndal Martin reviews Franny Choi’s “Soft Science”

Featured Selection
Jim Daniels interviewed by Amanda Newell

Essays and Comment
The Reliable Stream: On A.R. Ammons’s The Complete Poems, V. 1 & 2, W.W. Norton 2017 by T.R. Hummer

Plume: Issue #95 July 2019

Poems

Sydney Lea The Big Blow

Dorianne Laux Joy

Peter Johnson A Nun to be Named

Richard Jones Three Ballerinas & Blue Plaques

Mary Ruefle Interlude for a Solitary Flute

John Kinsella Western Spinebill Sighting and the Absence of Tim

Gardner McFall My Groundhog

Jennifer Franklin Polar Bear & Memento Mori: Stradivarius

Floyd Skloot Elegy & Brooklyn, 1957

Eric Pankey Melancholia & Trouble in Mind

Debra Nystrom Observatory at the Prison

Bruce Bond Book of Dolls

Afaa Michael Weaver Salvation, in B#

Alexander Dickow Old Lithographed Landscape & Woolgathering

The Poets and Translators Speak
Lea, Skloot, Pankey, et. al.

Book Review
Joshua Corey reviews Katy Bohinc’s “Scorpio”

Featured Selection
Maurice Manning interviewed by Amanda Newell

Essays and Comment
Walking into Metaphor

Plume: Issue #94 June 2019

Poems

Samira Negrouche Six Makeshift Trees Around My Bathtub

Nance Van Winckel Excerpts from Little Goldie in America

Patricia Clark Les Rochers de Belle-Ile [after the painting by Claude Monet]

Rebecca Lehmann The Afterlife

Richard Kenney Madonna in Blue

Scott Withiam Occupation

Stewart Moss Holiday Candle

Nin Andrews Soul Mate

Julia Shipley Barn Red

J.T. Ledbetter Turd

Marie Lundquist Eight Poems

David Rivard Spit

Alan Zhukovski Electric Eyes of Night

The Poets and Translators Speak
Lehmann, Kenney, Withiam, et. al.

Book Review
Joshua Corey reviews Amish Trivedi’s “Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed”

Featured Selection
Amit Majmudar interviewed by Nancy Mitchell

Essays and Comment
“The Prose Poem and the Problem of Genre”

Plume: Issue #93 May 2019

Poems

Kimberly Johnson Fidelity

Christina Pugh But the Avant-Garde

Robert Nazarene Higher Education and In Every Scene

Moni Stanila Alexandru (1904 – 1984)

Jill McDonough Q&A for Keyhole and Mammogram Hair

Brian Culhane The Immortality Ode

Ron Smith Don’t Know Much About the French I Took

Will Wellman Tampa at 8PM, Listening to a Podcast on Bird Migration

Timothy Liu Carpe Diem

Maurice Manning After Reading Charles Wright I Turn Out the Light and Listen to the Rain

Martha Serpas The Morgue is Closed & Pélican Dans Sa Píeté

Mark Dow Charlotte

Leonard Kress Not the Way it Was

Lawrence Raab The World Provides

Abdourahman Waberi Vanity

The Poets and Translators Speak
Culhane, Dow, Nazarene, et. al.

Book Review
Republic Cafe by David Biespiel reviewed by Craig Brandis

Essays and Comment
My Own Private Parthenon

Plume: Issue #92 April 2019

Poems

Hsia Yü We Came This Way to Know the Evening

Tara Skurtu Happy Hour

Sydney Lea But-cept

Stewart Moss Hogmanay, Edinburgh

Hoyt Rogers Maidendown

Robert Clinton Caroline

Rebecca Aronson Prayer Written on a Wide Veranda on a Comfortable Couch in Sewanee, TN

Matthew Lippman Blond for All the Boys

Garret Keizer A Flash of Lithe White Arms

Drew Milne Lost Leaders

Dora Malech Rats

Betsy Sholl Hurdy Gurdy

Andrea Read Soldier’s Wife in the Aftermath

Alexis Rhone Fancher Sweet Tooth

The Poets and Translators Speak
Clinton, Sholl, Aronson, et. al.

Book Review
Like by A.E. Stallings reviewed by Devin King

Featured Selection
Jeff Friedman interviewed by Nancy Mitchell

Essays and Comment
The Heart’s Emissary

Plume: Issue #91 March 2019

Poems

Daniel Bourne The Old Thoughts

Margo Berdeshevsky As the Land Listens

Martha Collins Because What Else Could I Do

Susan Rich Extreme Close-up

Peter Cole Two Poems

Margo Taft Stever Dolls

Lloyd Schwartz GOD HOUR (ERIC LUNDQUIST: IN MEMORIAM)

Julie Bruck My Shame & Sanctuary

G.C. Waldrep The Authentic Galleries

Frannie Lindsay Golgotha & Receiving the Host

Ekiwah Adler-Belendez The Palm Reader & Fire Horse

Dore Kiesselbach Molt & Clean Water Act

Carol Muske-Dukes LIKE

Brian Barker Murder Ballad & A Story of Teeth

The Poets and Translators Speak
Berdeshevsky, Schwartz, Lindsay, et. al.

Book Review
Now That the Audience is Assembled by David Grubbs reviewed by Devin King

Featured Selection
Dorianne Laux, interview by Hélène Cardona

Essays and Comment
How to Write on Rat Skin

Plume: Issue #90 February 2019

Poems

Claire Malroux from In the Fires of Absence

Jose-Flore Tappy Trás-Os-Montes

Natasha Sajé On Beauty and To the Phaistos Disc

Sharon Dolin The Loneliness of His Death

Patrick Donnelly Callas Poems

Phillis Levin In a Valley & Theorems of Reason

Sandra McPherson Archaic Rayon Kamehameha

Max Winter A Catalogue

Gail Mazur EASTHAM TURNIPS, ROUTE 6, NOVEMBER

Lydia Davis Three More Claims to Fame

Judy Katz Sunday in Connecticut

John A. Nieves The Last Few Feet

The Poets and Translators Speak
DeNiord, Donnelly, McPherson, et. al.

Book Review
Unshored Fragments: Dimitris Lyacos’ Post-Tragic Trilogy reviewed by Ilias Bistolas

Featured Selection
Stephanie Burt

Essays and Comment
The Other by Chard DeNiord

Plume: Issue #89 January 2019

Poems

Marilyn Kallet Trespass and Dante Confidential

Ernest Hilbert Amusements

Jim Daniels Going Out Staying In

Jo-Ann Mort Market Day

Elizabeth Jacobson Notes on Desire

Carol Kner Invitation to the Dance and Pieces of us Keep Breaking Off

Adam Tavel A Convalescent Bed in a Field of Yellow Tulips

Stephanie Burt Kennedy

Billy Collins Burial Arrangements

Cherene Sherrard Wild Yeast & Kiss and Tell

Christopher Buckley Here & Now

Clare Rossini JIGSAW

Danielle DeTiberus Disseminate

The Poets and Translators Speak
Sherrard, Buckley, Collins, et. al.

Book Review
Mark Scroggins’ “Pressure Dressing”, reviewed by Joshua Corey

Featured Selection
5 under 35

Essays and Comment
Dredgings by Alexander Dickow