Plume publishes the best contemporary poetry: national and international voices in monthly issues with twelve poets contributing one poem each. Plume Issue #173 (January 2026) includes a portfolio of poems by George Bradley with additional contributions by Samuel Amadon, Marisa Martínez Pérsico, Lindsay Stuart Hill, Joseph Campana, J.T. Barbarese, Fleda Brown, Cynthia Cruz, Charles Bernstein, Bruce Bond, and Alan Shapiro. Readers can also find commentary from authors in the section “The Poets and Translators Speak” as well as “On the Prose Poem, the Fragment, Literary Influence, and Kafka’s Ears: An Interview with Peter Johnson” by Cassandra Atherton, and the essay, “A Love Letter to Longing” by Alice B Fogel. Ann Leamon reviews the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless by Matthew Cooperman.
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