Spring 2019
Spring 2019
The Spring 2019 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”
As guest-editor Rigoberto González writes in his introduction, “Writing amplifies our questions and illuminates the unexpected places where we might find the answers. And if not the answers then an opportunity to reflect, rethink, or reimagine.” Featuring new poetry and prose by Zeina Hashem Beck, Sherwin Bitsui, Joy Castro, Emily Raboteau, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and many others, the work in this issue reveals the power of contemplation.
Introduction
Fiction
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Fox Hollow
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The Enchanted Tiki Room
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One Goes Where One Is Needed
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A Private River
Nonfiction
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My Ideal Audience
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Malcriado
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A Brief and Uneventful History of Burlap
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José’s Girls
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Color Therapy
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Julia’s Stepchild
Poetry
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Hover
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Ars Poetica
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At the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
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The Vault
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Obit
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Obit
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This Life Not Yet Saved
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For the Record
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Alloy
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After the Breakup, I Encounter My Whiteness Again
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Two Gifts
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Hello
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The Gift
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Where the Bruja Provides an Open Invitation to the White Boy in Texas
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Cultural Revolution
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When You Are Near, I Turn into a Baja Fairyduster
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Tha-Tha-Tha-Tha-That’s All, Folks
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Six Valedictions for the Last Night I Loved You
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Long Division
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After Making Red Chile
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Cover the Mirrors
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In the Fields
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Scientific Method
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Damp Room
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Sugar Ray Extols the Virtues of a Good Death to Son, Quick