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  • Winter 2025-26

    The Winter 2025-26 issue features poetry and prose by Alice Hoffman, Victoria Chang, Reginald McKnight, Maggie Dietz, Amy Gerstler, Jennifer Martelli, and Michael Burkard. Cover art by Mary Royall Wilgis.

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  • Poets’ Journals and the Essayists Who Wrote Them

    For our inaugural PS post, please enjoy this conversation with Kathryn Nuernberger, Heidi Czerwiec, and Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh about the evolution of lyric essays as…

  • Fall 2025 Issue Launch Party

    On October 22, 2025, we hosted contributors Juliana Lamy, Heather Thompson-Brenner, and Devon Walker-Figueroa for a reading at Trident Booksellers in celebration of our Fall…

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Our first PS piece, “Poets’ Journals and the Essayists Who Wrote Them,” is a dialogue with Kathryn Nuernberger, Heidi Czerwiec, and Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh.

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Free Content: Reginald McKnight

Read Reginald McKnight’s piece, “You Wouldn’t Think So, But Here We Are,” from the Winter 2025-26 issue of Ploughshares.

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Guest Editor Spotlight: Terrance Hayes

Read poetry and prose edited by Terrance Hayes, Guest Editor of the Winter 2010-11 issue of Ploughshares.

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