Hudson Plumb is a poet, playwright, and healthcare communications strategist based in New York City. His poetry has recently appeared in Humana Obscura (Issue 12), RHINO Poetry (2024 Founders’ Prize, Runner-Up), The Courtship of Winds, and Kaleidoscope Magazine, Exploring the Experience of Disability Through Literature and the Fine Arts. His poems have also been published in earlier issues of Webster Review, Missouri, and Kaleidoscope.
PRAISE:
Hudson Plumb draws us into a world both dark and light. He movingly recalls the death of loved ones—his own and that of strangers—leavening the sorrow with striking images drawn from nature. The father of a drowned son “stood still as a heron” while the breeze was “blowing back the grasses like the flames on a birthday cake.” In this mature debut collection, the poet is equally adept describing gritty life in N.Y.C. and a lyrically uplifting whale watch (“crossing the glassy water/our vessel unzips the perfect surface of the bay.”) Every poem is precisely crafted, suffused with empathy, and the author’s search for meaning that all thoughtful readers will applaud.
–Maria Terrone, No Known Coordinates and Eye to Eye
Loss—the “undoing” of things—is a compelling central concern in Hudson Plumb’s fine collection of poems. But his title also suggests restoration and invention, the art of poetry. Although things come apart, these poems remain committed to the richness and pleasures of accumulation. There is so much to see in the world. If the news seems hopeless, “and time no longer stretches its pretty ribbon/before us,” as Plumb writes in one particularly lovely poem, we still linger and listen, and when we look up our eyes are “focused on clouds passing/between the fingers of a eucalyptus tree.”
–Lawrence Raab, author of Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts, longlisted for the National Book Award and named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2015 by the New York Times.
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