Plume

Submitting your work

Plume accepts submissions of poetry year-round via email. Poets should send 3-5 poems in the body of the email (not as attachments) to the address provided on the website. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify promptly if work is accepted elsewhere. The magazine values well-crafted, evocative poetry and encourages poets to read several issues before submitting to understand the editorial preferences. Response times can vary, but generally range from a few weeks to a few months.

A provisional indication of our tastes—“what we are looking for”—may be inferred from the quoted passages (which will change often): a sense of the uncanny, foremost, and of the fineness of language, the huge absences to which it points and partakes of, and the urgency and permanence of its state of departure—the coattails forever—just now—disappearing around the corner.