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This week in our free Ploughshares contest, we’re featuring our Summer 1980 issue, guest edited by Gail Mazur and featuring an interview with Robert Pinsky, work by James Tate and Marianne Boruch, and a Richard Wilbur essay on Elizabeth Bishop.   To win this issue, comment below detailing why you love any of the issue’s…

This week’s free Ploughshares contest features our Spring 2005 issue, guest edited by Martin Espada and featuring work by Melissa Bank, Robert Creeley, Adrienne Rich, and a Pablo Neruda poem translated by Ilan Stavans.   In order to win this issue, leave a comment below detailing why you love Martin Espada or any other of…

Free Ploughshares time! For this week, we’re featuring our Spring 1982 special poetry issue, featuring an interview with Robert Bly and poems by Maxine Kumin, Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, and Sharon Olds.   To win this issue, simply comment in the space provided below with a reason why you love Robert Bly or any of…

It’s time for our weekly free Ploughshares contest! This week, we’re featuring our Spring 1997 issue, guest-edited by Yusef Komunyakaa and featuring work by Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, and Martin Espada. Interestingly, it also features a story by Carolyn Ferrell, whose short story collection Don’t Erase Me was accidentally placed in the children’s section of…

It’s once again time for another free Ploughshares contest, and this week we’re featuring our Winter 1983 issue, guest edited by Raymond Carver and featuring work by Mona Simpson, Tim O’Brien, Jay McInerney, and Tobias Wolff.   For anyone unfamiliar with the contest, the rules are simple: comment in the space below about why you…

It’s time for our weekly free Ploughshares contest, and this time we are featuring Seamus Heaney again, and the first issue that he guest edited: our Spring 1980 issue. It also features work by Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon.   UPDATE: I’ve made my selection, and so this posting is now CLOSED. We’ll be doing…

Free Ploughshares, round…well, I lost count, but once again it’s your opportunity to win a free issue from our archives! This week we’re featuring our Spring 1991 issue, guest edited by M. L. Rosenthal and examining the idea of “works-in-progress.”   Because of this issue’s theme, we’re doing things a little differently this week. In…

Here at Ploughshares, we’ve been lucky enough that the new Poet Laureate of the United States Philip Levine has guest edited our magazine not once, but two times in our forty year history. Today we’re featuring the first issue, published in Winter 1988 and filled with contributions from writers as diverse as Yusef Komunyakaa, Dean…

On this week a year ago, Megan Mayhew Bergman was rereading the work of Donald Hall in her post “Learning the Taste of Stone” while Fan Wu looked at the ever-pertinent issue of e-books versus physical texts. The debate still goes on, but if you have an e-reader, why not use it to read our…