Plume

01/07/2025

Readers: once again I am pleased to announce a new issue of Plume ((July, # 167) is now live at www.plumepoetry.com Featured Selection, An interview with Elsa Cross by Ramón García; Essay, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Sylvia Plath! An essay by David Kirby; Chard deNiord reviews Adrie Kusserow’s “The Trauma Mantras”. New poems from Kim Simonsen (tr from the Faroese by Randi Ward), Steven Cramer, Urszula Honek (tr from the Polish by Scotia Gilroy), Mark Irwin, Julie Bruck, Hunt Hawkins, Juan Armando Rojas (tr from the Spanish by Paula J. Lambert), Emma Taylor, Elisabeth Murawsk, Bruce Beasley, Andrea Cohen, Alice Friman. Contributors comment on their work in The Poets and Translators Speak. Cover art, Arthur Segal, Still Life with a Window. Enjoy!

07/06/2025

01/06/2025

Readers -- I am very happy to announce the arrival of the June issue ( #166) of PLUME,now live at www.plumepoetry.com Featured Selection, Weird, Wild, and Fabulous: James Allen Hall in Conversation with Amanda Newell; Essay, “’Lights,’” Stuart Dybek’s Little Masterpiece: Prose Poem, Flash Fiction, or Creative Nonfiction?” by Peter Johnson; Jane Zwart reviews Angie Estes' “Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City”. New poems from Dan Sociu and Adela Greceanu (tr Monica Cure), Sarah Dunphy-Lelii, Sara London, Rachel Hadas, Page Hill Starzinger, Michael Mark, Kimiko Hahn, Jessica Greenbaum, James Richardson, Gerry LaFemina, Danielle Legros Georges, Cleopatra Mathis. Contributors comment on their work in The Poets and Translators Speak. Cover art, Yasuo Kuniyoshhi. Enjoy!

15/05/2025

Poets, Translators -- Plume is open for Submissions!

Our spring reading session commences 15 May 2025 and run s through 30 May 2025. We look forward to reading your submissions.

Thanks!

The Plume Team

04/05/2025

This month, Julia Bouwsma is in conversation with Plume's Sally Bliumis-Dunn for our featured selection. Bouwsma shares some of her work from her latest collection, DEATH FLUORESCENCE (Sundress 2025) and talks about what it means to "navigate one’s own extinction as part of a dying world." Link to interview in comments.

04/02/2025

"When you’re deep inside the writing, the world occasionally brings you flowers."

~Poet/musician Jon Davis, from his interview with Associate Editor Nancy Mitchell. Davis is this month talking about his forthcoming collection, FEARLESS NOW & NAMELESS (Grid Books 2025)—and about his latest musical collaboration, CLAP THE HOUSES DARK.

Fearless Now & Nameless; a tour de force from poet and musician and shapeshifter Jon Davis   (click on image to pre-order)   NM: Three epigraphs, from Wallace Stevens, Basho, and Louise Glück open your new book, Fearless Now & Nameless. What themes do these epigraphs announce?   JD: A little his...