Author: Rhian Sasseen

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Curating Wonder: Reader Review #4

Today’s reader review comes from Daniel DiStefano, who looks at our Charles Baxter issue through the prism of lost youth, adolescent fantasies, and the thought process behind mixtapes. Ploughshares Fall 1999, guest edited by Charles Baxter.Featuring work by Jill Bossert, Antonya Nelson, and Michael Byers.233 pages, $10.95. In the fall of 1999, I was a…

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The International Issue

Today’s reader review comes from one of our interns, Rhian Sasseen, who looks back on our Winter 1985 issue, guest edited by Stratis Haviaras with a focus on international writing. Ploughshares Winter 1985, guest edited by Stratis Haviaras. Featuring work by Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, and Anna Akhmatova. 268 pages, $20.00. At twenty-one we held…

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Free Ploughshares, Round Six: Seamus Heaney

We’ve really enjoyed all of the great comments we’ve been receiving through this contest, and this week we’re excited to offer yet another fantastic back issue of Ploughshares to a lucky winner. It’s the all-poetry Spring 1984 issue guest edited by the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, and featuring work by Marilyn Hacker, Rita Dove,…