Poems of nightfall

Poet Anne Elezabeth Pluto inhabits the dusky in-between spaces in her fifth collection of poetry, “The Deepest Part of the Dark” (Unlikely Books). She investigates the death of her mother, the death of a former love, the foreign grave of a long-buried multi-greated grandfather. “The dead sleep/ easily, grouped/ in threes, they do not/ mind us,” she writes. A simplicity and matter-of-factness is balanced with moments of delicate lyricism in lines saturated with haunt and located often at the shift to winter. She writes of an encounter with a family of raccoons; in these poems, “The night world was always open.” And in Pluto’s darkness exists a heat and glow, as when the “long lure of love burns/ celestial in the dark/ to domesticate the night,/ each star numerous/ in its power to assail us/ now, in our charter of rebirth.”

— Nina MacLaughlin - Boston Globe

Interviews and Readings

Doug Holder interviews Annie Pluto on his Poet to Poet Writer TV show in the Somerville Media Center studios.

Anne Pluto discusses her writing journey, provides advice to writers and reads some of her work with Briar Haus Writes.

On July 1, 2020, Unlikely Books celebrated the release of "The Deepest Part of Dark" by Annie Pluto. Pluto read, along with Kayla Rodney (author of Swimming Home [Unlikely Books, 2019]) and Tara Campbell (author of Political AF: A Rage Collection [Unlikely Books, 2020]).