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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.

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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…

Reading and Writing about St. Teresa of Ávila

Our latest PS piece is an essay by Alice Hoffman.

Free Content: Gabrielle Bates

Read Gabrielle Bates’s poem, “Lady Patriots,” from the Spring 2026 issue of Ploughshares.

Guest Editor Spotlight: Jean Valentine

Read poetry and prose edited by Jean Valentine, Guest Editor of the Winter 2008-09 issue of Ploughshares.

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