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25/07/2024

Many thanks to Michael Simms -- my poem "The Paten" up now on the indispensable Vox Populi.

O, parched tongues! O, Clearasil and ear wax, quivering chin hairs!

14/07/2024

Readers -- please see the link below to Vox Populi for Michael
Simms' gorgeous, erudite, clarifying essay in the July issue of Plume: -- The Empty Bowl | Metaphor as Meaning. https://voxpopulisphere.com/2024/07/13/michael-simms-the-empty-bowl-metaphor-as-meaning-2/ It's simply fantastic -- enjoy!

06/07/2024

Readers -- I am very pleased to report that the poet, writer and scholar Ramón García will be joining Plume’s staff as Associate Editor beginning this month. You can find Ramón’s impressive biography note below. He will be working on Featured Selection interviews and various such compendia, essays, and – I hope – offering his own poetry every now and then. We are very fortunate to have him aboard, as I am sure you will soon discover yourselves, dear readers. Welcome, Ramón!

Ramón García is the author of two books of poetry The Chronicles (Red Hen Press, 2015) and Other Countries (What Books Press, 2010), a monograph on the artist Ricardo Valverde (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and a chapbook Strays (Foundlings Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including circulo de poesía, the Best American Poetry anthology, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of US-Hispanic Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, Gulf Coast and Plume. He is Vice-President of the Board of Trustees at Beyond Baroque Literary Center in Venice, California. He teaches at California State University, Northridge and lives in Los Angeles.

https://ramongarciaphd.com/

01/07/2024

Readers, a delight to offer you new issue of Plume (July, #155)! Featured selection, Peter Campion’s “Unidentified Animal” | A Brief Portfolio and An Interview with Amanda Newell; Essay, The Empty Bowl: Metaphor as Meaning by Michael Simms; Timothy Liu reviews Hafiz’s “Little Book of Life”; and a special Feature, Seven Slovene Poets introduced by Sydney Lea. New poems from Daniel J. Ayoroa (tr Frances Simán and Mihaela Moscaliuc), Juana Ramos (tr Diana Conchado), Mark Irwin, Stephen Ackerman, Rebecca Michels, Maura Stanton, Jessica Greenbaum, Jane Zwart, J. P. Dancing Bear, Colin Pope, Christine Byrne, Bruce Cohen. Contributors comment on their work in The Poets and Translators Speak. Cover art, Amy Beeder's "Nativity". Enjoy!

21/06/2024

Thanks so much, Michael Simms, for featuring my poem "From the Afterlife" on your indispensable Vox Populi --

My last days were not so bad, my ex-wife says from the afterlife, Not so bad as you think. So relax.

01/06/2024

Readers -- I am pleased this morning to announce the June issue of Plume ( #154) is now live at www.plumepoetry.com Featured Selection, Wind and Shadows: In Pursuit of a Grandfather’s Story: A Conversation with Tyler Mills by Frances Richey; Essay,The Literary Fragment, Black Humor, and the Ampersand: Three Short Essays by Peter Johnson; Amands Newell reviews Dan O'Brien's ‘Survivor’s Notebook". New poems from Joanna Fuhrman, Timothy Liu, Tom Laichas, William Trowbridge, Marie Lundquist (tr Malena Mörling), Steven Ratiner, Sarah Anne Stinnett, Patricia Clark, Greg Sendi, Eric Odynocki, Clare Rossini, Chris Vasantkumar, Campbell McGrath, Robin Rosen Chang. Station to Station: Mitchell | Nieves. Contributors comment on their work in The Poets and Translators Speak. Cover art, Otto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden, 1926. Enjoy!

19/05/2024

If You're In The Neighborhood Department --

01/05/2024

Readers: As always, I am pleased to announce that the new issue of Plume (May, # 153) is now live at www.plumepoetry.com Featured Selection, "The Other", moderated by Sally Bliumis-Dunn; Essay, Maggie Dietz, VILLANELLES AND THE ART OF ANGUISH; Jane Zwart reviews V. Penelope Pelizzon's "A Gaze Hound that Hunteth by the Eye"; Alexis Levitin: A Translator’s Portfolio. New poems from Steven Ratiner, Annette Barnes, Carrie Etter, Fortunato Salazar, Julie Danho, Lisa Russ Spaar, Margo Berdeshevsky, María Casiraghi, (tr Lorena Wolfman), Marilyn A. Johnson, Megan Nichols, Mujib Mehrdad, (tr Sholeh Wolpé), Ralph Culver, Teresa Cader. Special Feature, Music: Meandering, Ebbing and Flowing with Slow Water, Stephan Crump and Nancy Mitchell. Contributors comment on their work in The Poets and Translators Speak. Cover art, "Eclipse with Colanders" by Nancy Mitchell. Enjoy!

20/04/2024

In case you find yourself nearby, with a hankering for the poetry of Tom Sleigh -- but who's that other fellow?

15/04/2024

Poets: Plume's Spring open reading period is upon us -- submissions accepted 15 -30 April. Please be sure to see guidelines here:

NOTE: Plume’s Spring reading period runs from 15 April — 30 April; submissions sent after this date will not be read. Thank you.

02/04/2024

Readers, I am pleased to announce the arrival of the April issue ( # 152) of Plume at www.plumepoetry.com -- a fine one, I think. Featured Selection, James Crews: The Poetry of Connection and Joy, A conversation with Michael Simms; Essay, “The End”, by Heather McHugh; Timothy Liu Ruminates on Timmy Straw’s ‘The Thomas Salto’ in Five Short Lyrics. New poems from Matthew Lippman, D.A. Powell, Tara Skurtu, Fereshteh Sari (tr Kaveh Bassiri), T.R. Hummer, Susan Rich, Paula Bohince, Patron Henekou (tr Kaveh Bassiri), Martha Collins, Jennifer Martelli, Kate Northrop, Hoyt Rogers, Frannie Lindsay, Daniel Tobin, Cecilia Woloch. Station to Station, Lummis | Laichas. Contributors comment on their work in The Poets and Translators Speak. Cover art, Karl Brendel. Enjoy!

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29/03/2024

Poets, a note: Plume's Spring reading period is almost upon us -- it runs from 1 April -- 15 April; submissions sent after the 15th will not be read.

Here's a link to the Submissions page.

https://plumepoetry.com/submissions/

Thanks so much --

Daniel Lawless, Editor, Plume

We are excited to broaden the mission of Plume to include reviews, criticism, and book notes by members of our staff. While we will not consider unsolicited submissions in these areas, we invite presses and authors to submit complimentary copies of poetry collections, chapbooks, verse translations,....

28/03/2024

Poets and readers -- a gift from longtime Plume contributor Susan Rich - her new book, BLUE ATLAS. Purchase if you can! Enjoy!

14/03/2024

"In science we deal all the time with movement. In principle we cannot observe objects; we can observe only interaction between objects. Poetry is also ruled by interactions: between words, between word, sound and meaning, and more. Both science and poetry are in search of language; they name things, enlarge, and create language realms."

~Tzveta Sofronieva, author of "Multiverse" (2020), a collection of new and selected poems written originally in German, Bulgarian, and English. In our featured selection this month, she's in conversation with Ian Haight.

Check out the interview, as well as new work by Sofronieva (translated by the author) in addition to excerpts from "Homage to Green Tea," by the Korean monk Ch’oŭi, co-translated by Haight and T’ae-yong Hŏ.

Writing Internationally: Ian Haight in conversation with Tzveta Sofronieva Tzveta Sofronieva is the author of over twenty books, including Multiverse (2020), a collection of new and selected poems written originally in German, Bulgarian, and English. Ian Haight, author of the collection of poetry Ce...

11/03/2024

Last notice, I promise -- and thank so much, Anjanette!

10/03/2024

Readers -- if you just happen to be in the St. Petersburg, Florida, environs of an upcoming Thursday --

Dear Friends--
Please join us at the Dali Museum
this Thursday, March 14 @ 6:00
to hear the amazing poets:
DENNIS NURSKE and DANNY LAWLESS !
https://thedali.org/event/poetry-at-the-dali-2024-3-14/
DENNIS NURSKE'S twelfth poetry collection, A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS, a “new and selected,” was published by Knopf in 2022. His poetry has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three Pushcart Prizes and appeared in six editions of Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Poetry and The Paris Review. Dennis has also worked in human rights, served a term on the board of Amnesty International-USA and taught at Rikers Island. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Beth Bosworth and the wild puppy Zephyr.
DANIEL LAWLESS is the author of The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With; his current book, I Tell You This Now, will be released in March 2024. Recent poems appear in FIELD, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Los Angeles Review, upsteet, SOLSTICE, Manhattan Review, Massachusetts Review, JAMA and Dreaming Awake: New Prose Poetry from the U.S., Australia, and the U.K., among others. A recipient of a continuing Shifting Foundation grant, he is the founder and editor of Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, Plume Editions, and the annual Plume Poetry anthologies.

Poetry at The Dalí is an ongoing series hosted by former poet laureate of St. Petersburg, Helen Pruitt Wallace, on the second Thursday of each month.

08/03/2024

If you're in Hartford -- Clare Rossini and I will be reading. Love to see you there!

https://noahwebsterhouse.org/event/wordhouse-poetry-11/?fbclid=IwAR2xwAUir9RY1xcqQG665gAxnCAEPty3_NaBNTaiGRcGvhJqA0uRsbVB3OA

Clare Rossini has published three books of poems and recently co-edited an anthology titled The Poetry of Capital (University of Wisconsin, 2020). Individual poems have appeared in publications such as Paris Review, Plume, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and Poetry, as well as in many anthologie...

02/03/2024

Readers: happy to announce that the March issue of Plume is now live at www.plumepoetry.com Featured Selection, Writing Internationally: Ian Haight in conversation with Tzveta Sofronieva; Essay, Uncovering What Is Brave: A Remembrance of Brigit Pegeen Kelly by Joy Manesiotis and Maxine Scates; Celeste Lipkes reviews Another Last Call: poems on addiction and deliverance, edited by Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis. New poems from Arthur Sze, Billy Collins, Betsy Sholl, Brian Barker, Charles O. Hartman, Jan Freeman, Jeffrey Skinner, Kaitlin Rizzo, Karl Kirchwey, Rae Armantrout, Susan Aizenberg, Xander Gershberg. Station to Station, Suzanne Lummis | Tom Laichas. Contributors comment on their work in The Poets and Translators Speak. Cover art, "Fox", by Brian D. Cohen. Enjoy!