Winter 2016-17
Winter 2016-17
The Winter 2016-17 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited.
This staff edited issue of Ploughshares features a vibrant collection of essays, poems, and short stories. Whether it’s through poetry like Daniel Lawless’s poem “The Old Masters,” or short stories like Katie Knoll’s “IED,” the work in this issue reminds us that below the surface, there is always something unseen. In the Look2 essay, Rob Hardy takes a look at the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist Susan Glaspell.
This issue also features prose by Tristan Hughes and Irina Reyn and poetry by Mairead Small Staid, Bill Knott, and sam sax. The winners of our 2016 Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our 2016 John C. Zacharis Award winner.
Fiction
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Up Here
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IED
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The Caretaker
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Austin
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The Luckiest Man in Town
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The Essential Constituent of Modern Living Standards
Nonfiction
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The Undertaker's Home
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When Dusk Fell an Hour Earlier
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Illness and Identity
Poetry
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What We Did Under the Tree
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balcony
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Asking for Work at Flathead Bible
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The People Who Live Near Us Are Our Neighbors
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MEMORY AND LOSS
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(from Regular Haunts: poems ending with the first sentences of mystery novels and thrillers)
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Arabesques and Bottle Blondes
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Stalking James Carville While Walking My Dog
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Moderation
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Sunbather with Mayfly
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Black Dress
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The Drowning
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Tarot Reading
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Vintage Lexicon
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Walking the Property Line
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Scotch Tape
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Weather Warning to Sheep Graziers
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First Sight
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By the River Baab
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Humidity’s Tones
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Winter Drift
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Mother Teresa This, Mother Teresa That
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The Dean Has No Comment
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The Old Masters
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The Year
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Courbet is a Desperate Man
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Midwinter
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The Social Fabric
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Unnoticed
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The Problem with Wanting Something
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The Problem with Mercy
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Mother Snapshot
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Waiting for Achilles
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Controlled Burn
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Plumb & Line
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A Girl’s Guide to Vivisection
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Ode to the Tonga Room
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Storm
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Ararat
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Geese at Night
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The Separation