Summer 2022
Summer 2022
The Summer 2022 Issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Jamel Brinkley, features original prose by Rav Grewal-Kök, Arinze Ifeakandu, Gothataone Moeng, Lauren Morrow, and others. “As I undertook the pleasurable task of reaching out to writers whose work I love for this issue, I realized I wanted voices that were both skillful and troubling," Brinkley writes in his introduction. "I ultimately allowed myself to be guided by my ear. I ended up with a clutch of work that, to my ear, sang with what Lorca calls 'a scorched throat,' forms of eloquence that lean into trouble instead of away from it.”
Introduction
Fiction
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Leaving
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Pata Negra
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Family Resemblance
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Gall
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The Falls
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Smiling Days
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Translation
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Bird Lovers
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When Mrs. Kennekae Dreamt of Snakes
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Everyday Tips for Becoming a Star
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Spain’s Last Colonial Outposts
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Salamander Season
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The Dead Zone
Nonfiction
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Cowboys