Plume Issues
Plume: Issue #148 December 2023
Poems
Maybe It Will Happen in the Span of a Sentence translated by Daniel Bourne
The First Communion and Forty-Two
Hi. My Name Is Billy Hollands.
Fifteen Essays on Boats, Boats, Language, and the SS
The Poets and Translators Speak
Camp, Pedone, Pindyck, et. al.
Book Review
Graham Foust’s “Terminations” reviewed by Timothy Liu
Featured Selection
“The Velvet Livingness” a conversation with Megan Fernandes by Frances Richey
Essays and Comment
Why I Write; An essay by Dorianne Laux
Station to Station
deNiord | Hall
Plume: Issue #147 November 2023
Poems
Portrait of My Father as a Snake
Ambition and House I Didn’t Mean to Build
Two poems by Rafael Alberti translated from Spanish by Lorna Shaughnessy
The Poets and Translators Speak
Shaughnessy, Scates, Donnelly, et. al.
Book Review
Little Poems, ed. Michael Hennessy Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series, reviewed by Amit Majmudar
Featured Selection
The Poem as Lightvessel: A Dialogue on Poetry and Community with Kelli Russell Agodon by Amanda Newell
Essays and Comment
Girl Talk: How a Sumerian Princess Jumpstarted Poetry by Barbara Hamby
Station to Station
Keith Flynn | Frank Paino
Plume: Issue #146 October 2023
Poems
About Tea translated from Czech by Stephan Delbos
Passing Royalty and Dostadning: Beginner’s Translation
Ana Varela Tafur translated from Spanish by Yaccaira Salvatierra
The Invention of Everyday Life
The Afterlife of Fish and Opossum
How I Felt the First Time I Tried It
The Poets and Translators Speak
Delbos, Johnson, Raab, et. al.
Book Review
On Frank Stanford by Timothy Liu
Featured Selection
5 under 35 curated by John A. Nieves
Essays and Comment
Rhythm Benders: The Musicality of American Poetry by Michael Simms
Station to Station
Beeder | Rivera
Special Feature
Peter Johnson, Excerpts from Observations from the Edge of the Abyss
Plume: Issue #145 September 2023
Poems
Car le Vice by Tomaž Šalamun translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry
More Nights Than Days and Turn It Up
Head of a Woman with the Horns of a Ram
Storm Song, Monarch, Sultry Night and Galveston, 1900
Two Poems by George Seferis, translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg
LIGHT OF THE MOON, PATRIMONY, AN UNWANTED LIGHT
A Brief Portfolio of Selected Poems by Yves Bonnefoy translated by Hoyt Rogers
The Poets and Translators Speak
Groom, Simms, Kellogg, et. al.
Book Review
Jared Beloff’s “Who Will Cradle Your Head” reviewed by Linda Mills Woolsey
Featured Selection
Nicole Sealey on The Ferguson Report: An Erasure: An interview with Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Essays and Comment
Emanuel’s Elegies: “Something about art/ And its opportunities” by Deborah Bogen
Station to Station
Kallet | Harper
Plume: Issue #144 August 2023
Poems
A Brief Portfolio: Heaney in an Irish Pub & Other Poems
The Poets and Translators Speak
Hoppenthaler, Bond and Upton, et. al.
Book Review
Timothy Liu reviews Ana Božičević’s “New Life”
Featured Selection
Remedios: Tommy Archuleta in Conversation with Amy Beeder (and five poems)
Essays and Comment
Conjuring the Last Gleeman by Steve Kuusisto
Station to Station
Logan | Steidle
Plume: Issue #143 July 2023
Poems
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, a short film by Frank Heath with music by Cory Smythe
On Brueghel’s Massacre of the Innocents
Two Poems translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury
Fish Belly Poem and a poem by Wang Yuyang translated by Arthur Sze
ARS Poetica Chemistrica & Hitting the Bullseye of Depression
Fake Lemon Tree on a November Day in a Boat Depot in Chelsea
Three poems translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk
The Poets and Translators Speak
Bradbury, Bliumis-Dunn, Florczyk, et. al.
Book Review
Celeste Lipkes’ “Radium Girl” reviewed by Jane Zwart
Featured Selection
Such Silence by Troy Jollimore
Essays and Comment
Syntax by Jessica Goodfellow
Station to Station
Buckley | Hodges
Plume: Issue #142 June 2023
Poems
“Bird or Old Man” translated from Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova
From “The Last Letter of My Body”, translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher
Lost Tails, City of Money and Counting the Money
Canary Island Date Palm, Love & Ink and Persephone
A Thin Membrane and For the New Parent
Moving the Piano and From the Cliff
The Poets and Translators Speak
Bond, Karapetkova, Hadas, et. al.
Book Review
Adam Scheffler’s “Heartworm” reviewed by DeWitt Henry
Featured Selection
Nathan McClain on “Previously Owned”: An interview with Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Essays and Comment
Strangers at the Door: Robert Gibb, Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Jose Padua by Michael Simms
Station to Station
Pinsky|Green
Plume: Issue #141 May 2023
Poems
Poems from Ukraine translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Chard deNiord
Happy Hour & Babies Cry at 5:03 pm
On My Diagnosis of Pulsatile Tinnitus
The Last Time I Saw My Mother Before the Pandemic, #Me Too & Ready
Dead Tree in the Back Yard & Gait
The Poets and Translators Speak
Goodfellow, Ulku, Tymchuk, et. al.
Book Review
John Moessner’s Harmonia reviewed by Peter Vertacnik
Featured Selection
Poems from Mariella Nigro’s Memory Rewritten and interview by Mihaela Moscaliuc with translators Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas
Essays and Comment
The Poetic “Engine” in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction by Chard deNiord
Plume: Issue #140 April 2023
Poems
“Flüchtige monde” / “fugitive moons” translated from the German by Joscha Klueppel
Voicegrass and Incantation…translated from the Swedish by Bradley Harmon
Reading Heidegger Brings a Wild Joy
Four Poems translated by Christopher Buckley
Milkweed Lullaby and Radio Lullaby
The Poets and Translators Speak
Harmon, Fagan, Buckley, et. al.
Book Review
“This We in the Back of the House” by Jacob Sunderlin reviewed by Jimmie Cumbie
Featured Selection
The Voice of the Dragon: A Conversation with Katy Didden by Frances Richey
Essays and Comment
Cassandra Atherton, “The Life and Times of Big Mr. Prose Poem”: While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems by Peter Johnson
Plume: Issue #139 March 2023
Poems
Once I loved an opera singer from Spain
Elegy for My Grandmother in the Form of a Cactus
In the Next Life and The Office of Apology
If He Had Missed It Would Have Killed Him
Still Life with Clouds and Eyes on the Prize
The Poets and Translators Speak
Collins, Orlowsky, Bouwsma, et. al.
Book Review
banana [ ] by Paul Hlava Ceballos reviewed by Jane Zwart
Featured Selection
A Window Into That In-Between Place That Has No Name: A Conversation with Elaine Sexton by Frances Richey
Essays and Comment
Making, Spinning, Weaving Texts by Alfred Corn
Plume: Issue #138 February 2023
Poems
Poem by Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917-1945) translated from Polish by Alex Braslavsky
While Another Dove Nude into the Breakers
Sea Otters, Missiles, Sardines
On Brueghel’s the Tower of Bable
Dream Vision of Theodore Roethke
Three poems from The Abduction by Maram Al-Masri, translated from French by Hélène Cardona
The Poets and Translators Speak
Cardona, Bassen, Filkins, et. al.
Book Review
Jody Stewart’s ‘This Momentary World’ reviewed by Timothy Liu
Featured Selection
The Occult Power of bon mots, mots justes; Quantum Hopping with Angie Estes from Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment
Two Essays on Charles Simic by Donovan McAbee and Chard deNiord
Plume: Issue #137 January 2023
Poems
Photographer’s Song & Nothing Song
On Not Translating Polish Poets
Agnus Dei, Winslow Wants a Gun, Omega Street
California King, Head of the Meadow and A Miracle of Saint Anthony
Washing Women, Cathedral and Sky
Unbeckoning Glass and Time Faking Surprises
The Poets and Translators Speak
Culhane, basta, Cisewski, et. al.
Book Review
Say Them With Me: Disruptive Lyricism in Jos Charles’ a Year & other poems reviewed by Cassandra Whitaker
Featured Selection
Clarifying the Disorder of Catastrophe: In Conversation with Poet/Playwright Dan O’Brien by Amanda Newell
Essays and Comment
The Road Goes On Forever and The Party Never Ends by David Kirby