Latest Issue


  • Spring 2026

    The Spring 2026 issue, guest edited by Annie Finch, features poetry and prose by Traci Brimhall, Molly Dektar, Jane Hirshfield, Shane McCrae, Jessica Roeder, Sapphire, Patricia Smith, Alpay Ulku, Karen Winn, and more. Covert art by Ana Seggiaro.

PS


  • Alice Hoffman on Reading and Writing about St. Teresa of Ávila

    I went to the Divinity School because I have no faith. I didn’t lose it. I never had it. I don’t believe in politics or…


  • Losing My Maps

    “You are too nice,” Kathryn Harrison once said to me. Or perhaps what she said was, “You are very nice!” but to me it sounded…


  • Poets’ Journals and the Essayists Who Wrote Them

    For our inaugural PS post, please enjoy this conversation with Kathryn Nuernberger, Heidi Czerwiec, and Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh about the evolution of lyric essays as…


  • Winter 2025-26 Issue Launch Party

    In January 2026, we hosted Bridget Lowe, Shara McCallum, Maggie Dietz, and Alice Hoffman for a reading at Trident Booksellers in celebration of our Winter…


  • Fall 2025 Issue Launch Party

    On October 22, 2025, we hosted contributors Juliana Lamy, Heather Thompson-Brenner, and Devon Walker-Figueroa for a reading at Trident Booksellers in celebration of our Fall…


SIGN UP FOR THE PLOUGHSHARES NEWSLETTER

protected by reCAPTCHA, PrivacyTerms.