Winter 2020-21
Winter 2020-21
The Winter 2020-21 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 now provides 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 2020-21 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features poetry and prose by Nick Arvin, Gina Ochsner, Steve Almond, Sylvie Baumgartel, and Jennifer Givhan as well as Kelli Russell Agodon, Justin Balog, Shauna Barbosa, J. Mae Barizo, Christopher Buckley, Michael Burkard, Nora Caplan-Bricker, Elaine Hsieh Chou, Emily Cinquemani, Katie Condon, Jackie Craven, Caroline Crew, Evgeniya Dame, Fay Dillof, Shangyang Fang, Corey Flintoff, Jessica Goodfellow, Matthew E. Henry, David Keplinger, Ted Kooser, Laurie Lamon, Michael Lavers, Kathleen Lee, Eugenia Leigh, Ruth Madievsky, Alexandra Marshall, Gary McDowell, Paul Muldoon, Janice Northerns, Suphil Lee Park, Madelin Parsley, Emily Pittinos, Christina Pugh, Jeremy Radin, David Roderick, Craig van Rooyen, Noah Warren, Mason Wray, He Xiang, and Jane Zwart.
Fiction
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Even When You’re Not Thinking About the End of the World, the End of the World Is Thinking About You
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Skinfolk
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Bone Music
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The Way to Bani Walid
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Soon the light
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In Disguise
Nonfiction
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The Man at the Top of the Stairs, On Rendering the Inner Life
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Thresholds (or, On Donation)
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The Ultimate Alchemy
Poetry
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Every Morning, I Hear Sorrow Nibbling the Daylilies
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When Someone Dies, the Sky Whispers Never Fall in Love
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Zoobooks
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The Internet
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The Mountain
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Volterra
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Stiletto
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On the Air
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anniversary
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ESOL Teaching Notes, Late December, at the Kitchen Table
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Married Six Months, I Dream of the Ex I Long Thought I’d Marry
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Whish
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Private Practice
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Foretaste of Disaster
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Aubade for a Year [Without]
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The Autumn of Her Discontent
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twelve minutes a slave
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Reading Gilgamesh Before Going to Sleep
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Floater
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The Window Mannequin
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From the Museum of Failed Masters
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Social Security
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How the Dung Beetle Finds Its Way Home
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In High School
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If There Is a Thesis Statement, This Is It
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A Postcard from St. Barts
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Moral Compass
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Weanlings
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Wanting a Child
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Reading for the Plot
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Charlotte’s Web
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Lying in a Hammock
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The Old Math
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Wall Mice
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Imagining the River
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On the Relative Distance Between Sky and Emperor
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Oddest and Oldest and Saddest and Best
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I did not know any secrets then