Editor’s Note
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 60 – July: and I write tonight drenched in the news coverage of the death of Muhammad Ali — Ali, who, apparently, was always universally admired, no — adored, and never more so than in his, and my, hometown, Louisville, Kentucky. Where, by the way, he was met personally by every second
Editor’s Note
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 59 – June: a most welcome intercession for many of us teachers, when we slip if only between pillar and post from one academic term to another — or for the more fortunate, a gateway month, opening onto the longer respite of a full summer on one’s own, unmolested by the requisites of
Editor’s Note
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 58 – May: up early and feeling already…wistful for some reason as I ran this morning — perhaps the soundtrack I had selected, the old Blur LP Think Tank, Eno’s Another Green World – and following a different route than usual, it was as if it – that lurking nostalgia — had been
Editor’s Note
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 57 – April. Brief, this time, thanks to my having been rather long-winded in my mediations on chess and intertwined birthday salutations to my brother M. last issue (and, thank you, all, for your kind words regarding that little missive). And so we begin rather than conclude with our cover art this month:
Editor’s Note
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 56 – March: And I think of my brother, whose birthday is upcoming: sixty-six. Brilliant, kind beyond measure, forbearance incarnate, M. became ill at age 14 – schizophrenia. I have written here and there about him, always without success. Why this has been so, I’m not sure, for I am not
Editor’s Note
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 55 – February: A cold snap here in Florida as I write – 42 degrees last night. I know. But remember: we also have Rick Scott (who has denied the ACA again and emptied the mental health care coffers, for starters), some of the lowest high school graduation and annual income rates in the
Editor’s Note
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 54 – January: And why not bid farewell to the holidays, happy as they have been – stuffed with gifts (a box of rapidly staling pfeffernusse, anyone?) — or unhappy as the case may be (see: already-effervescing rehearsals of familial lore, for which read childhood slights and long-simmering animosities brought to the boil)
Editor’s Note
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 53 – December: Yes, and of course: Paris. Where when I first stepped foot there many years ago, felt…home. A sensation that has never left me: I was born in the wrong place. And now: Unthinkable cruelty. One watches television in utter disbelief, and yet: not. The familiar horror, the facile explanations, the
EDITOR’S NOTE
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 52 – October/November: Yes, you have read that correctly, but may have inferred that we have gone to a bi-monthly format – most assuredly not the case. Nor a double issue. Instead, merely a matter of the unforeseen strains accompanying the installation of our new website exacerbated no doubt by the incompetencies of
EDITOR’S NOTE
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 51 – September: Our fifty-first first issue! As you see, at last, now, our new, new redesign. I hope you like it: the same format of twelve poems and a Featured Selection, but, I think, easier to read, the font clear and sharp, and some nice little widgets and additions. (E.g., Under Staff in
EDITOR’S POST #49
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 49 — July: And at last – it seems so long – we put our farewells behinds us and turn to happier subjects. For instance, a look over our – Plume’s – shoulder, where we find among other things, an uncanny antecedent, thanks to the remarkable-in-all-ways Ron Slate*, who founded and served as editor of
EDITOR’S NOTE #50
Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 50 – August: Our fiftieth issue! Astonishing in every way, this little whim now so…corporeal. To celebrate, we’ll be running some very fine poets especially recruited for this issue – and the next, and the next after that, for as it turns out, and I should have expected this, the response to my
