Plume Issues
Plume: Issue #112 December 2020
Poems
Consecration of the Wolves I and IV
The Beautiful American Word Baby
Tartine. Quasi-unfamiliar. To handle a relationship
Shakedown, Sleeping Mother and The Touch
The Poets and Translators Speak
Carlson, Pastan & Smith, et. al.
Book Review
The Clearing by Allison Adair reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar
Featured Selection
Dear Stuart
Essays and Comment
THE LAND OF ULRO: Czeslaw Milosz on William Blake by Bill Tremblay
Plume: Issue #111 November 2020
Poems
Winter Morning and Ceci n’est pas un pot
House of Sorrow, Vessel of Anarchy, I Will Not Name It Except to Say, Golem
Two poems by Muyaka bin Haji, (1776—1840)
Using these questions, would you please write a brief description of yourself?
St. Bonaventure and Spring Birthday Romance
She said she saw, Maya Lin and At night, I tried
The Poets and Translators Speak
Greenbaum, Collins and Dolin, et. al.
Book Review
“Alias” by Eric Pankey reviewed by Mark Wagenaar
Featured Selection
On Queer Poetics, Writing Courageously, and Becoming Otherwise: An Interview with Nomi Stone by Amanda Newell
Essays and Comment
The Edson Letters by Peter Johnson
Plume: Issue #110 October 2020
Poems
A Brief Portfolio of Six Poems
Always a Woman, a War, or a Lost Cause
Romanian Lessons & The Country of Leaving
My Friend, Nice Socks & The Last Dance
The Book of Forgotten Geniuses
A Brief Portfolio of Six Poems
A Singleton & Self Portrait: Between the Car and the Sea
The Poets and Translators Speak
Johnson, Sholl, Moss, et. al.
Book Review
Brett Foster’s “Extravagant Rescues” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar
Featured Selection
francine j harris Interviewed by Amy Beeder
Essays and Comment
A Hard Road by Charles Coe
Plume: Issue #109 September 2020
Poems
Horoscope and American Upanishad
Riding the Metro-North New Haven Line and Black Mountain Music
Country of Other Arrangements and Spinach Salad
Where the Robins Took Me and Northern Flicker
Armorial and The World is Burning
Oak Leaves as Young Musicians and Longing
The Poets and Translators Speak
Dunn, Mabbitt, Slate, et. al.
Book Review
Hailey Leithauser’s Saint Worm reviewed by Susan Blackwell Ramsey
Featured Selection
Ranjit Hoskote interviewed by Leeya Mehta
Essays and Comment
Out of Fresno—Poetry & “Career” by Christopher Buckley
Plume: Issue #108 August 2020
Poems
Since Childhood & The Virgin’s Miracles translated by Don Schofield
Meditation on a Shower Rod at the Super 8
Shooting Pool in the Mental Hospital
The Poets and Translators Speak
Armantrout, Skloot, Barger, et. al.
Book Review
Donovan McAbee reviews Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo
Featured Selection
From Lewisburg to Syracuse: An interview with Bruce Smith by Chard deNiord
Essays and Comment
Inviting the Reader: Narrative Values, Lyric Poems by Sydney Lea
Plume: Issue #107 July 2020
Poems
Beards & The Gospel According to Ian Fleming
flail, snap, struggle & These Long Afternoons
The Rainbow Sign, The Shirt and After All
Dealing with the Forbidden & How It Begins
The Poets and Translators Speak
Straumsvåg, Friman & Samaras, et. al.
Book Review
Jane Hirshfield’s “Ledger” reviewed by Fred Marchant
Featured Selection
Caliche Sand and Clay: Five Albuquerque Poets
Essays and Comment
It’s Called the Renaissance, You Know, or The Soul Sibling Report by David Kirby
Plume: Issue #106 June 2020
Poems
Flight, Ours & A Burn So Bad It Requires Ice
After the Fire Items # 6-10, Living Room
Edinburgh University Anatomical Collection
Paramouria & You Do What You’re Good At
The Poets and Translators Speak
Williams, Springer, Revell et. al.
Book Review
Sara Wainscott’s “Insecurity System” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar
Featured Selection
Reginald Dwayne Betts: On Art, Poetry, the Particular Fucked Up Parts of Incarceration, and the Multitudes of I — Interview by Amanda Newell
Essays and Comment
Rescuing Ourselves by Celia Bland
Plume: Issue #105 May 2020
Poems
Battle Hymn of the Republic introduced by Steven Cramer
On Delta Flight #2164 From JFK
Maria Dolores, Mother of Sorrows Quilts introduced by Wendy Barker
Debris introduced by Terese Svoboda
To Be That Boy, to Be That Horse introduced by Maurice Manning
Meeting Shakespeare introduced by Mark Irwin
I’ll Hang Around as Long as You Will Let Me
Dear Creature introduced by Jane Springer
A Prayer introduced by Hélène Cardona
DINNER AT LYNN AND LINDA’S WITH KEN AND JACK
Derealization introduced by Jim Daniels
His Side introduced by Floyd Skloot
The One Crying in English Class introduced by Denise Duhamel
Visiting Gertrude Stein in Père-Lachaise introduced by Angie Estes
Book Review
Miho Nonaka’s “The Museum of Small Bones” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar
Featured Selection
Ladder, Facts and Rungs—Dancing on the Train Tracks with Fleda Brown Interview by Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment
“Getting Stabbed Kinda Takes the Fight Out of Ya” by David Kirby
Plume: Issue #104 April 2020
Poems
Deciduous (Evening in a Polar Vortex)
It’s 3 A.M., Winter, and Nine Miles from Truckee
Grand Marais Estuary, in Fog (after the painting by Stanley Krohmer)
In the Golden Silence of Vineyards & My Wine translated by Paula Bohince
The Poets and Translators Speak
Richey, Clark and Olsen et. al.
Book Review
The Poetics of War: Three New Books on Armed Conflict and Armed Service reviewed by Mark Wagenaar
Featured Selection
Christopher Salerno interviewed by Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment
“But They Have Dwindled,” Rethinking Wordsworth’s “Resolution And Independence” As A Modern Day Cautionary Tale by Chard DeNiord
Plume: Issue #103 March 2020
Poems
Family Once Removed and Who Cooks for You?
Scene from a Photograph in a Dream
The Poets and Translators Speak
Henry, Waldrep, Harrison, et. al.
Book Review
Chelsea Wagenaar reviews Paisley Rekdal’s “Nightingale”
Featured Selection
5 Under 35 Plus
Essays and Comment
Flash Essays by Alfred Corn
Plume: Issue #102 February 2020
Poems
AFTERNOON AT THE METROPOLITAN, NYC
The Poets and Translators Speak
Morris, Campo, Kolbe, et. al.
Book Review
Mark Wagenaar reviews Mark Irwin’s “Shimmer”
Featured Selection
Engraved Phrases on Open Seas: Poems and Notes on Translations of Khal Torabully
Essays and Comment
Essay on the Prose Poem by Charles Simic
Plume: Issue #101 January 2020
Poems
ANTIGONE CONSIDERS HER FAMILY: Father and Mother
The Poets and Translators Speak
Bakken, Kallet, Weaver, et. al.
Book Review
Chelsea Wagenaar reviews “View from Truth North” by Sara Henning
Featured Selection
On Poetry and the Necessity of Aimless Wandering: An interview with Alan Shapiro by Amanda Newell
Essays and Comment
Reading and Writing Outside Thebes: In Praise of Syntax by Kimberly Johnson