Since its founding in 1971, stories, poems, and essays from Ploughshares have appeared over 135 times in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.
Also, take a look at our Cohen Award winners, honoring each year the best story and poem published in Ploughshares, and our Zacharis Award winners, given each year to the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer.
The Best American Poetry
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| Bridget Lowe | The Pilgrim Is Bridled and Bespectacled | Spring 2010 |
| Katha Pollitt | Angels | Spring 2010 |
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| Bruce Bond | Ringtone | Spring 2008 |
| Alice Friman | Getting Serious | Winter 2007-08 |
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| John Casteen | Night Hunting | Winter 2006-07 |
| Garrett Hongo | Cane Fire | Spring 2007 |
| Debra Nystrom | Every Night | Spring 2007 |
| John Rybicki | Three Lanterns | Spring 2007 |
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| Jane Hirshfield | Critique of Pure Reason | Winter 2006-07 |
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| Beth Ann Fennelly | I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese. | Spring 2004 |
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| Mary Jo Bang | The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity | Spring 2003 |
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| Joshua Clover | Aeon Flux: June | Winter 2001-02 |
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| Timothy Liu | Felix Culpa | Fall 2001 |
| Sharon Olds | Frontis Nulla Fides | Fall 2001 |
| Charles Wright | Nostalgia II | Fall 2001 |
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Vectors: 45 Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays |
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Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair |
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A Charade |
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Thoreau and the Crickets |
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Rednecks |
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Skin Trade |
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic |
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Following Her to Sleep |
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An Unlikely One Will Guide Me... |
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Theory |
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The Beautician |
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The Woods |
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Past Lives |
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Living Color |
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War Movie: Last Leave, 1944 |
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Havana Birth |
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The Best American Short Stories
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| 2010 Rebecca Makkai |
Painted Ocean, Painted Ship |
Winter 2009-10 |
| 2009 Alex Rose |
Ostracon |
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| 2008 Allegra Goodman |
Closely Held |
Spring 2007 |
| 2007 Kate Walbert |
Do Something |
Winter 2006-07 |
| Mary Gordon | Eleanor's Music | Spring 2006 |
| Aryn Kyle | Allegiance | Fall 2006 |
| 2006 Katherine Bell |
The Casual Car Pool |
Fall 2005 |
| Maxine Swann | Secret | Winter 2005-06 |
| 2004 Jill McCorkle |
Intervention |
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| 2003 ZZ Packer |
Every Tongue Shall Confess |
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| Sharon Pomerantz | Ghost Knife | Fall 2002 |
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| 2001 Peter Ho Davies |
Think of England |
Fall 2000 |
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The Mourning Door |
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The Secrets of Bats |
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The Beautiful Days |
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Flower Children |
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Tea at the House |
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So I Guess You Know What I Told Him |
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Fur |
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From Shanghai |
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1992 |
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Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards
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| 2009 Paul Yoon |
And We Will Be Here |
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| 2003 Joan Silber |
The High Road |
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1989 |
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1988 |
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1987 |
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The Darkness of Love |
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Sister |
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1983 |
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1982 |
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1981 |
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The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
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| 2011 L. S. Asekoff |
Hither & Yon |
Winter 2009-10 |
| Martin Moran | Analphabet | Fall 2009 |
| Brigit Pegeen Kelly | Rome | Spring 2009 |
| 2010 William Lychack |
Stolpestad |
Spring 2008 |
| Peter Everwine | Rain | Spring 2008 |
| Christie Hodgen | Tom & Jerry | Spring 2008 |
| 2009 Chris Forhan |
Love, Or Something |
Spring 2007 |
| Charles Baxter | Ghosts | Spring 2007 |
| 2008 Lauren Groff |
Lucky Chow Fun |
Fall 2006 |
| 2007 Karen E. Bender |
Refund |
Spring 2005 |
| R. T. Smith | Dar He | Spring 2005 |
| Laura Kasischke | If a Stranger Approaches You about Carrying a Foreign Object with You onto the Plane . . . | Fall 2005 |
| 2006 Cynthia Weiner |
Boyfriends |
Spring 2004 |
| 2005 David St. John |
from The Face |
Spring 2003 |
| Alice Mattison | I Am Not Your Mother | Fall 2003 |
| Pamela Painter | Reading in His Wake | Fall 2003 |
| Sue Standing | Fast Sunday | Fall 2003 |
| 2004 Valerie Laken |
Before Long |
Winter 2002-03 |
| Joan Silber | The High Road | Fall 2002 |
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| Cornelia Nixon | Lunch at the Blacksmith | Fall 2001 |
| Julie Orringer | Pilgrims | Spring 2001 |
| Ellen Bryant Voigt | Autumn in the Yard We Planted | Fall 2001 |
| 2002 Elizabeth Graver |
The Mourning Door |
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Grief |
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The Secrets of Bats |
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Gray |
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The Spell |
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Commendable |
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Sestina: Bob |
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1999 |
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Thanksgiving |
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The Bill Collector's Vacation |
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Flower Children |
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From Rosary |
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Tea at the House |
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1998 |
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The Forest |
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Atomic Bride |
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1997 |
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1996 |
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Milk |
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Last Things |
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1995 |
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1994 |
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The Dig |
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Forrest in the Trees |
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Monday Her Car Wouldn't Start |
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1993 |
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Circumstances |
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Oh, By the Way |
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1992 |
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Past, Future, Elsewhere |
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