Year: 2023

Discover the winners of the poetry contest !

Award ceremony & the new PLUME book !

As for 3 years now, PLUME offers you a new collection of 200 pages, containing all the texts received during this 2023 edition, poetry and news combined ! New this year: English poems will also be available in this collection! 

Wired Love

-… — .-.. -. is how we first meet the romantic interest in Ella Cheever Thayer’s 1880 novel Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes. “Just a noise,” claims our lead Nattie, a telegraphist who comes to rely on that noise for daily comfort. We read. She hears. With a moment, Thayer has demonstrated what is special about the game of love.

Trumpular

As I write this, the world is waking to news of Trump’s indictment. It’s a moment many Americans stopped anticipating long ago, attuned as we were to the never ending cycle of outraged media anchors, pontificating legal experts, and promises that this time, things were different. As they were with the Mueller report. As they were on January 6. And so on, and so on… except this time, it was true. Things were – are – different.

Poetry contest 2023

Organized by PLUME for its fourth edition, the Poetry Contest is back this semester ! And for the first time, it is possible to write in English !

This year there is a unique theme: “Dream in a world on fire”.

A year in Provence, by Peter Mayle

Could anything sound more appealing to those of us ripped away from break and planted in lecture seats? With A Year in Provence, his 1989 memoir about slow living in the south of France, Peter Mayle has this and many more ways to inspire envy in anyone with obligations. For the modern expat crowd, he (…)

Secondhand time, by Svetlana Alexievich

Nearly a year after Russia ramped up its war in Ukraine, the editor-in-chief of RT assuaged viewer confusion over Putin’s aims by claiming that, actually, the end goal of the invasion was “deliberately complicated and vague.” Trying to understand how public support can brush off this patronization boggles the mind. Turn to Western media or (…)