Plume Issues
Plume: Plume Issue #124 December 2021
Poems
Letter to My Almost Former House
Two poems translated from Spanish by Adriana Scopino
Alone at 77 & I Arrive at the Scene
The Sun Pours Forth & An American in Paris
At the Frick Collection in New York City
What a Man Wants is the Power to Name the Terms of His Rescue
HOUSEKEEPING: Frida’s Future Kiss
Notes on an Illness in Spain & the grist of gratitude is like ingratitude
Cockatiel & View From Another Planet
Pain & Ophelia and the Nine-and-Fifty Swans
The Poets and Translators Speak
Kanchan, Burns, Scopino, et. al.
Book Review
Devon Walker-Figueroa’s Philomath reviewed by Jeri Theriault
Featured Selection
Jewish American Women Poets by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Essays and Comment
All These Red and Yellow Things: Short Papers on Art by Lesle Lewis
Plume: Issue #123 November 2021
Poems
Reading Julio Cortázar after turning 70
What If a House Could Draw its Own Blueprints? and The Decision
Paying a Blind Man to Wash and Wax My Car
Sources And Outcomes & Through The Hospital Corridor
Beipei, Low Water, Winter 1985
The Poets and Translators Speak
Buckley, Ramspeck, Johnson, et. al.
Book Review
Kasey Jueds’s “The Thicket” reviewed by Jane Zwart
Featured Selection
On Peach State and crafting “the raw materials of circumstance”: An interview with poet Adrienne Su by Mihaela Moscaliuc
Essays and Comment
“Truscon, A Division of Republic Steel, 1969-70: A Prose-Poem Sequence Disguised as a Lyrical Essay, Itself Aspiring to Be a Fictional Memoir” by Peter Johnson
Plume: Issue #122 October 2021
Poems
Endecasyllabics: About the Women (Alma, Ruthie)
Early Explorers Sometimes Carried Watermelons Instead of Canteens & Close Your Eyes
[The Porcupine Left Its Hovel]
Practicing Quiet & The Last Sleep Artist
Oxalis in the Ingleside & Zucchini in August
The Poets and Translators Speak
Prins, Andrews, Barbarese, et. al.
Book Review
Sean Thomas Dougherty’s Not All Saints Reviewed by Sonia Greenfield
Featured Selection
Christopher Buckley on NAMING THE LOST: THE FRESNO POETS; interview by Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment
The Solotaroff Protocol, by David Kirby
Plume: Issue #121 September 2021
Poems
Seven Minutes with Mary Halvorson: Poetry and Jazz, Hand in Hand
Pull Off on Old Lyme Road to Fuck
Truce, Class Notes & On Rereading the 23rd Psalm
The Poets and Translators Speak
Pastan, Hanzliček, Nazarene, et. al.
Book Review
John Wall Barger’s “Resurrection Fail” reviewed by Cameron MacKenzie
Featured Selection
Savagely clear-eyed: An interview with writer, flamenco singer, and literary translator Amaia Gabantxo by Mihaela Moscaliuc
Essays and Comment
Some Thoughts on the Sublime Irony of Nothing and the Divine Imagination by Chard DeNiord
Plume: Issue #120 August 2021
Poems
A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye
Seven Minutes with Afaa Weaver and Nancy Mitchell
Gonzalez-Torres at the Solstice and Why they Revere the Alcoholic Neighbor
Poem Beginning with a Line from Levis
Voyager parable and Parable of the Little Ghost
The Widow at Point Reyes and Broncoscopy
Of Silk and Missive & Between Tree and Rocket
The Poets and Translators Speak
Duckler, Pelizzon, deNiord, et. al.
Book Review
Robert Alexander’s “Finding Token Creek” reviewed by Sonia Greenfield
Featured Selection
Veronica Golos interviewed by Amy Beeder
Essays and Comment
The Only Critic by J.T. Barbarese
Plume: Issue #119 July 2021
Poems
Letter to a Cyclist and Early Spring
After the War for Independence and Despite Nostalgia
In Which the Sea Rakes at My Window and Seemingly Unlike Me
Auntie Deluvian and Alien On The Ark: Two by Two
February Elegy with Tulips on a Glass Table
Elements and A Streetcar Named Panera
I Was Reading the Sunlight, I Was Planting the Words on this Page
The Poets and Translators Speak
Escude, LaFemina, Buchinger, et. al.
Book Review
The Hölderliniae by Nathaniel Tarn reviewed by Devin King
Featured Selection
Memories, Friends in Dreams, and Reflections on the Poet’s Life and some Advice to Young Poets: Seven Minutes with John Skoyles and Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment
The Opposite of Silence: Poetry Interposes by T.R. Hummer
Plume: Issue #118 June 2021
Poems
Oxygen & Waking to 1939, I Study Those Standing
Ever Wish We’d Gone Beyond Being Friends? and My Auto Dealership
To the Poets Dropped from the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
The Poets and Translators Speak
Hawkins, Withiam, Cooley, et. al.
Book Review
Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs reviewed by Jane Zwart
Featured Selection
Jen Sperry Steinorth: On Creating and Claiming Space with Her Read by Amanda Newell
Essays and Comment
The Solid Objects of Stagnant Empires by Irina Mashinski
Plume: Issue #117 May 2021
Poems
Three poems from Kembang Kertas (Balinese for bougainvillea) in Filipino and Kinaray-a
One poem from “claus and the scorpion”
Two poems from “The Mistaken Place of Things”
Vaccination, in the Broadest Sense of the Term, Crickets and Lucky Strike Lanes
Found Poem: “Swelling Anti-Asian Violence: Who Is Being Attacked Where,” NYT, April 3, 2021
Black Forest and Country Night
The Poets and Translators Speak
Dunphy-Lelii, Armantrout, Johnson, et. al.
Book Review
Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar
Featured Selection
Five Contemporary Love Songs edited by Leeya Mehta
Essays and Comment
The Mind’s Meander: Indirection, Ambiguity, and Association in Poetry by Rachel Hadas
Plume: Issue #116 April 2021
Poems
Notnames at the Detroit Institute of the Arts and Hell Fuckin’ Yeah: Smackdown vs. Raw
A Canticle Rehearsal in The Temple and The Waters Do Not Return, Even to Meribà
Promiscuous and Thanking My Breasts
Two poems by Natalia Toledo, in trilingual translation (Zapotec to Spanish to English)
The Seven Mysteries of Our-Lady Madonna
Reading About Keith Jarrett This Morning in the Paper and Ode to the Table of Contents
Intelligent Design & Miramar Point
The Poets and Translators Speak
Richey, Tobin, Dower, et. al.
Book Review
Review of Steven Cramer’s Listen by Andrea Read
Featured Selection
Ambassadors of Poetry Prevail in the United States of Pandemica by Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment
Correspondence In The Air by Ilya Kaminsky and Twilight of the Theorists by Doug Anderson
Plume: Issue #115 March 2021
Poems
Spit from the Universe Magnified
Twelve Wings & Mother of the Holy Hope
I was trying to weigh darkness
The Dirty Orgasm, The Eleanor Ross Taylor Poems & Aren’t You Ashamed
knell & i object i object i object
Bear Sometimes Thinks He’s Dead & Shelf Life
The Poets and Translators Speak
Mort, Silano, Friman, et. al.
Book Review
PETITION by Joyce Peseroff reviewed by DeWitt Henry
Featured Selection
An Interview with Ann Arbor by Leeya Mehta
Essays and Comment
Overdetermination (It’s Not as Boring As It Sounds) by David Kirby
Plume: Issue #114 February 2021
Poems
The Window Light, The Dead Boy Isn’t Dad & The Window Light Again
Thanksgiving Near Cape Coast & Pine Cones: April 2020
MISSA CORONA SPINEA Good Friday, Macomb County
August City Night & Love in Kyiv
Heretical Physics & Mermaid Rescued by EMTs in Colorado
The Other Hemisphere & Like California
The Cocoon, I Started Slowly & Morning’s Only Yellow
Solstice, Seven Questions (Private/Public) & A Fable
The Poets and Translators Speak
Seaton, Hadas, Sholl, et. al.
Book Review
John Wall Barger Reviews That Was Now, This Is Then by Vijay Seshadri
Featured Selection
An interview with Teri Ellen Cross Davis by Leeya Mehta
Essays and Comment
A Frozen Present: D. Nurkse on the Language of Fascism and “The Land of Magic”
Plume: Issue #113 January 2021
Poems
After Our Parents Get Divorced, Our Mother Buys an Ivy Stencil
Christmas Nineteen-Sixty-Something and Notes from My Doppelganger
You Don’t Drink Wine? and I Tremble: Two poems by Rumi
Gertrude Suite, [Mechthild Says God is a Bell] & Lazarus
when you ask me if you are a good father & cook up meets god
Five Per Page and Title covered in flies
The Poets and Translators Speak
Guinzio, Fuchtman, Hartman, et. al.
Book Review
Favorite Books from 2020
Featured Selection
Chanda Feldman and Erika Meitner interviewed by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Essays and Comment
Why I Make Poetry Comics by Bianca Stone