Plume Issues
Plume: Plume Issue #153 May 2024
Poems
Two Poems translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé
Gott im Himmel and The Corner of Bellington Street and Sparta
Three Poems translated from Argentinian Spanish by Lorena Wolfman
Kintsugi and We Did Not Murder One Another
“October, and the sun burnishes”
[There was the way his mother]
Puritan Watc, Yonder and Birthday
In Waterplace Park on Our 15th Anniversary
How the West Was Won and Crack in the World
The Poets and Translators Speak
Culver, Berdeshevsky, Cader, et. al.
Book Review
Penelope Pelizzon’s A Gaze Hound that Hunteth by the Eye reviewed by Jane Zwart
Featured Selection
The Other by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Essays and Comment
Villanelles and the Art of Anguish by Maggie Dietz
Special Feature
Meandering, Ebbing and Flowing with Slow Water: Stephan Crump and Nancy Mitchell
Plume: Plume Issue # 152 April 2024
Poems
The Insurgency of Tears is to Eradicate Sadness and Hold Joy as Close as the Moon
Picking Prunes and The Majestic Theatre
Bystander Effect, Permanence and Weapon
The City translated by Kaveh Bassiri
A Series of Small Scandals and Dear Telephone Booth,
Two Poems translated by Connie Voisine
Train to Naples and “It’s Awful Plain”
The Poets and Translators Speak
Voisine, Bassiri, Woloch, et. al.
Book Review
Timothy Liu Ruminates on Timmy Straw’s ‘The Thomas Salto’ in Five Short Lyrics
Featured Selection
James Crews: The Poetry of Connection and Joy, A conversation with Michael Simms
Essays and Comment
“The End” an essay by Heather McHugh
Station to Station
Lummis | Laichas
Plume: Plume Issue #151 March 2024
Poems
Grandpa David Told Me Once of Carpathia, a Place He had Never Been
The Minefield and Uncanny Daddy
Piano Epistemology, Apostrophes and Beauty
Dear— and On Misreading a Line by Mario de Andrade
The Poets and Translators Speak
Freeman, Sholl, Aizenberg, et. al.
Book Review
Sarabande’s Another Last Call: poems on addiction and deliverance reviewed by Celeste Lipkes
Featured Selection
Writing Internationally: Ian Haight in conversation with Tzveta Sofronieva
Essays and Comment
Uncovering What Is Brave: A Remembrance of Brigit Pegeen Kelly by Joy Manesiotis and Maxine Scates
Plume: Plume Issue #150 February 2024
Poems
Two Poems translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
First Communion, forty-two and the unnamed
Unrest or What the French Horn Can Teach You
Ode to Hands translated from Spanish by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Juan Suárez Proaño
Hymn of the Squirrels, Echidna Tremens and Singled Out
The Angels’ Share and Poem Without a Title
Streak, Exit Survey and Against All Endings
Dear Lucinda Williams and Dear Jules
The Poets and Translators Speak
Smith, Purpura, Zwart, et. al.
Book Review
Rae Armantrout’s “Notice” reviewed by James Sherry
Featured Selection
Dispatches From Lviv, A Conversation With Halyna Kruk, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Ali Kinsella, and Chard deNiord
Essays and Comment
Sexy Beast: The Song of Solomon by Barbara Hamby
Plume: Issue #149 January 2024
Poems
The All-Overs, This is Where God Stays When He’s in Town and Mr. Jackson’s Killer
The Poets and Translators Speak
Ulku, Buckley, Warren, et. al.
Book Review
Review of Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali by Jane Zwart
Featured Selection
“unalone” with Jessica Jacobs: A conversation with Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment
On Reading with an a Open Heart by Alpay Ulku
Station to Station
Richey | Johnson