Winter 2012-2013
Winter 2012-2013
The Winter 2012-13 issue of Ploughshares, edited by John Skoyles and Ladette Randolph. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium (“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa Michael Weaver, and many more.
Introduction
Fiction
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A Blink a Blink and Dehiscence
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The Wicked of the Earth
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Strawberries
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Grace
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Victoria Falls Hotel
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Telemetry
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Come the Revolution
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Days of Being Mild
Nonfiction
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Heather, 1984
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Unsaid
Poetry
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This Candle
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Two Weeks
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Restaurant
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The Centaur of Volos
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My Father in the Rustling Trees
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Laundry Day
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Loitering
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Patience
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Run Away, Join Circus
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A Story Can Change Your Life
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The Blower of Leaves
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Retelling
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Ode to the Messiah, Thai Horror Movies, and Everything I Can't Believe
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Ode to the Triple
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The Latvians Stir Ghosts
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December, with Antlers
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Introduction to Matter
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Precision
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You Got to the Sea
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Poem About a Still Life
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August on the Coast
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My Ship Has Sails
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You Are a Prince
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Wake
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A Hologram State of Mind
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Haloed Flotsam
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Volunteer
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Rule 1
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Visit #1
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One Good King
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Arriving at the End