Spring 2016
Spring 2016
The Spring 2016 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, with the Winter issue staff-edited.
Acclaimed poets Tom Sleigh and Alan Shapiro guest-edit this poetry and prose issue of Ploughshares. In a heartfelt introduction the two dedicate the issue to Mark Strand, Philip Levine, C.K. Williams, and Seamus Heaney, writing, “We wanted to bring them back--if only in these pages.” Featuring work from the aforementioned poets alongside their students, peers, and a variety of emerging voices, the stories and poems in these pages reassure us that great writers and teachers never really leave us.
Read new poetry from Sharon Olds, Mary Karr, and Robert Pinksy, and new prose from Katherine Damm, Taylor Koekkek, and Soraya Palmer. The Spring 2016 issue also includes a Look2 essay on the fiction of Joshua Cohen, and a profile of our Alice Hoffman winner, Ramona Asubel. The cover art is by Mark Strand.
Introduction
Fiction
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The Middlegame
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The Obscening of Engine Kreuter
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Social Eros and the Methods of the Baroque
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Emergency Maneuvers
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Walk Like a Man
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In a Better Place
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Grow Animals
Poetry
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Diurnal
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Stolen Horses
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Stalled in Traffic
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Giant Snowballs
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Plagued by Coleridge
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Lyric and Narrative Time at Café Loup
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Story for Children in Which:
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Dry Season at the End of the Empire
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For My Teacher on His Ninetieth Birthday
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To Wait and Not Yearn for the Waiting to End
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How It Was
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Babushkas
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Shooting Dogs
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The Lives of My Friends
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Frequently Asked Questions: 7
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The Architect
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Etheridge Knight's "Feeling Fucked Up"
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Self-Portrait As Mango
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Apocrypha of the Original Apple
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Blue Skies, Nothing But Blue Skies
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Blowjob
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Wellfleet, Off-Season
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Canasta
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The Day with Both of Them
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Vanilla Cupcake Complaint
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Super Moon
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First Poem
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The Arctic Vortex at Snooks Pond, 2014
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Banks of a Canal
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Meadow
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The Singer
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Shank
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Psalm for Riding a Plane
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Historical
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The Worst is Still to Come
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Thermopylae
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The A Man
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Waiting Room
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Things That Break
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To Have Light
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Yardsticks
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Exchange
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The Red Umbrella
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The Poetry-Body
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Confessional
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Night Café
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For My Daughter
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We Have Reasons for Wanting to Mend the Known World
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Uptown Saturday Night
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Ode to the Glans
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Note to Self
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Static, Frequency
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The Diarist
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Body Knowledge
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Poliomyelitis
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Love in Vain
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Astyanax
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Feet
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That Year
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My Mother Addresses Everyone in the World
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Three Days Flu No Shower
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The Conductor
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Cento for the Night I Said, “I Love You”
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First Encounter
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Raccoon
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Grudge
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Black Center
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Augusting
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Another Life (Hawthornden, Midlothian)
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Friends
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Two-Minute Film of the Last Tasmanian Tiger
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Solar Plexus