Winter 2019-20
Winter 2019-20
The Winter 2019-20 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.”
The Winter 2019-20 issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features poetry and prose by Nick Arvin, Sallie Tisdale, Tony Hoagland, Gretchen Henderson, and Gail Mazur as well as Megan Pinto, Richie Hofmann, Daneen Wardrop, Jennifer Knox, Eric Burger, Keith Leonard, Jim Whiteside, Jim Daniels, Maggie Millner, Conor Bracken, Gabriel Welsch, Catie Rosemurgy, Malachi Black, Chelsea B. DesAutels, Traci Brimhall, Esther Lin, Grady Chambers, Barbara Tran, Courtney Faye Taylor, Stephen Browning, Claire Sibley, Lynne Thompson, Janan Alexandra, Kerrin McCadden, Erin Adair-Hodges, Emily Hoffman, Amelie Meltzer, Mark Winegardner, Daryl Farmer, Owen Good, Aurelie Sheehan, Diana Spechler, Kai Maristed, Katherine Sharpe, and Beulah Amsterdam.
Fiction
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An Optimistic Engineer
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Another Death: ellipsis
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Once a River
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The Age of Migration
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Noise
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Buck’s Bar
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An Older Woman
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Pucker Factor
Nonfiction
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The Bear
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Thinking Like a Crosswalk
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Bent Arrows: On Anticipation of My Approaching Disappearance
Poetry
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Mostly Married, Alone at Night
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Is There Any More of That
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Indirect Light
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Say Forgiveness
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Contender
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Last Things
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Mystery Music
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The Plows
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Highlights of the Low Lights
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Why I Think of Jungle Crows
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The Gilt Mirror
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Gun Oil
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Abby, the Comedian
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The Window in the Mirror
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Spratchet
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Reading Madame Bovary
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Blue Work Shirt
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Losing
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Anatomy Practical
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Magical Thinking
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To the Old Man Who Lived on a Hill
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The Unfolding
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Diorama (woman with rose-pattern tea set)
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Mare
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Light flyweight
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Blooms exactly
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Warbler
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Buttercups in Foil on the Windowsill
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mind
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reremind
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To the Girl Rocking Out So Hard in Her Minivan that She Almost Rear-Ends My Minivan
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Shovel