Spring 2018
Spring 2018
The Spring 2018 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's four issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Fall and Winter issues are staff-edited.
As guest-editor Lan Samantha Chang writes in her introduction, “It is essential to share aspiration and fear, desire, struggle, consciousness. It is important to read the work of those whom we might not otherwise know, to write for those who do not speak.” Featuring new poetry and prose from Sandra Cisneros, Terrance Hayes, Deborah Eisenberg, Marilynne Robinson, and others, the work in this issue serves as a reminder of the importance of literature in our uncertain and tumultuous world.
Introduction
Fiction
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Music Night
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Snakes in the Lobby
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I Happy Am
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The Third Tower
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Hungry Ricky Daddy
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Stay Here
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On Extinction Events
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Pecking Order
Nonfiction
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How to Become a Monster
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Dogs are Barking
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Grace and Beauty
Poetry
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Still Life with Helicopters
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They Came
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The Underworld
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Cynthia La"Gail
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Smith's Supermarket, Taos, New Mexico, at the Fifteen Items of Less Checkout Line
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Yes and No
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When I Walk in Beauty
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American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
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American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
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American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
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American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
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My Son and Me
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Interim
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Los Toritos
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Why They Hate Us
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Ten Pre-Revolutionary Pillows, Watercolor 1910, Mariamna Davydoff, Russia
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Far North
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Pantoum by Frank O'Hara
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Banjo
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What Remains
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The Gnat and the Lion, January 2017
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Hermetic
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Agnès Varda: Here and There 1
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Agnès Varda: Here and There 2
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So I Am One
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You Were Like One of Those Zoo Animals
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Yes, I'm Talking to You
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I Am Building a Body in My Mind, and It Is
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"The Sun and the Moon Must Make Their Haste"
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Verbascum