Guest Post 
A guest post by Cassie McClure The long walks frame our days during the quarantine. It starts the day and ends the day. My dog has become slimmer; I have not. While discussing the abrupt end of the school year for my daughter during one of the walks, I told my mom about a recent … Read more
What Exactly is Creative Nonfiction? by Amanda Cartigiano When I was an undergraduate at UNM, I took Intermediate Creative Nonfiction, a class that should have branched out into various forms of nonfiction, but instead stuck solely to memoir and the personal essay. This does not mean I am not in favor of the memoir; it … Read more
by Amanda Cartigiano We hear a lot about female representation when it comes to television and music, but rarely does the mainstream media pay any attention to women in literature. Of course, there are many popular works featuring feminist characters and/or narratives, such as Jane Eyre, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, and The Color Purple, but I … Read more
Guest post by Nathalie Bléser, part five in a series of 5 In the Aztec palace, I, Cortés’s lengua, became the bridge between him and Moctezuma. Our Emperor wanted to learn more about the strangers, and he relied on me for that matter. At first I believed in dialogue and I hoped to play a part … Read more
Guest post by Nathalie Bléser, part two in a series of 5 From the Realm of the Dead, Malina’s Letter: “Dear Plume writers, dear Plume readers, do you know about my Plume dancers? There is a dance in Mexico called la Danza de la Pluma It moves me to tears, and it tears my heart out … Read more
Guest post by Nathalie Bléser, part three in a series of 5At Jennifer’s Monday Writing Session, you are first invited to listen to the seven rules. Rule number seven is that there are no rules. Also, we are allowed seven minutes to write stories. Maybe that’s why the vintage mirror in her space took me back … Read more
Guest post by Nathalie Bléser, part two in a series of 5 So let’s build the set. It’s Monday evening. Tonight the veil between worlds, between vivitos y muertitos (the living and the dead), is the thinnest. Magic already happens in the number of writers around the table: only three women have gathered in Jennifer’s … Read more
Guest post by Nathalie Bléser, part one in a series of 5 I recently put out a call for submissions to our website, and Nathalie Bléser quickly volunteered. I used to host regular drop-in writing session called Monday Writers and Nathalie attended on occasion, a delightful addition to our group. ~Jennifer Simpson “From the Moon … Read more
A review of the poetry collection Everything Hurts by Julianna McCarthy, published August 2018 by Latitude 34 Press Julianna McCarthy (who once played the matriarch on the iconic soap opera The Young & The Restless and had a recurring role on Star Trek) is known for saying that her son, poet Brendan Constantine, mentored her … Read more