Plume Issues
Plume: Plume Issue #166 June 2025
Poems
Two Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure
Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure
The Poets and Translators Speak
Collins, LaFemina, Dunphy-Leilii, et. al.
Book Review
“Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City” by Angie Estes reviewed by Jane Zwart
Featured Selection
Weird, Wild, and Fabulous: James Allen Hall in Conversation with Amanda Newell
Essays and Comment
“’Lights,’” Stuart Dybek’s Little Masterpiece: Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, or Creative Nonfiction?” by Peter Johnson
from Museu-d'Art-Contemporani-de-Barcelona
©Hiroshi Watanabe, www.hiroshiwatanabe.com
Plume: Plume Issue #165 May 2025
Poems
That’s How We Met translated by Chenxin Jiang
Desire Corners Me in the Quiet
Three Poems translated from Spanish by John R. Sesgo
The Happiness on the Other Side of Happiness
It’s the stage of grief where [I become a transparent eyeball]
The Poets and Translators Speak
Skaja, Moore, Sesgo, et. al.
Book Review
Do I Dream or Wake? Longer poems by DeWitt Henry reviewed by Susan Isla Tepper
Featured Selection
Julia Bouwsma, Maine Poet Laureate Interviewed by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Essays and Comment
“My Name, a Nun, St. Peter’s Chair, and Literary Fame—Not Necessarily in That Order”; An Essay by Peter Johnson
Special Feature
The Daily Practice of Poetry by David Breskin
Plume: Plume Issue #164 April 2025
Poems
Two Poems translated from Chinese by Liang Yujing
Two Poems translated from Swedish by Robert Hedin
Questions for Fruit Flies and The Habit of Longing
The Poets and Translators Speak
Maslova, Muske-Dukes, Karetnick, et. al.
Book Review
Virginia Konchan’s “Requiem” reviewed by Heather Treseler
Featured Selection
Making the Invisible Visible: A Conversation with Phillis Levin by Frances Richey
Essays and Comment
In Praise of Aporia by Doug Anderson
Plume: Plume Issue #163 March 2025
Poems
“Dispatches from Terra Incognita”
Food of Love & Thing-in-Itself
Found placed against her upper right arm
The Poets and Translators Speak
Gibson, Johnson, Treseler, et. al.
Book Review
Aaron Shurin’s “Black Roses” reviewed by Timothy Liu
Featured Selection
Dissent: A Feature compiled by Amy Beeder
Essays and Comment
An Eye Out for the Reader by Steve Kronen
Plume: Plume Issue #162 February 2025
Poems
Moisei Fishbein translated from the Ukrainian by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin
Three Poems by Abba Kovner translated from Hebrew by Rachel Neve-Midbar
“Denise to the Rescue” and “Needs Art”
Ten Days After the Dobbs Decision
The Poets and Translators Speak
Stewart, Buckley, Halai, et. al.
Book Review
Geffrey Davis’s “One Wild Word Away” reviewed by P.W. Bridgman
Featured Selection
Fearless Now & Nameless; a tour de force from poet and musician and shapeshifter Jon Davis by Nancy Mitchell
Essays and Comment
Update: Five Days in the Pandemic, from In Lieu of Flowers: A Quarantine Collaboration by Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade
Plume: Plume Issue #161 January 2025
Poems
Alex Averbuch translated from the Ukrainian by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky
Jerez translated from Spanish by Susan Ayres
Why the Sphinx Likes Riddles and Episodic
Poems from My Deathbed (and Just Beyond)
The Poets and Translators Speak
Olsen, Bamber, Peseroff, et. al.
Book Review
Timothy Liu reviews “Queer”, a film directed by Luca Guadagnino
Featured Selection
A Hope Abandoned: Navalny’s Death in Twenty Poems
Essays and Comment
This Or That by Chard deNiord