Poetry

  • Spring 2025
    Issue #163
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Spring 2025

    $8.99 – $18.00
    Guest Editor
    Peggy Shumaker

    The Spring 2025 issue, guest edited by Peggy Shumaker, features poetry and prose by Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim Seibles, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lia Purpura, Sonja Livingston, Marjorie Sandor, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Jen Silverman. Cover art by Saskia Fleishman.

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  • Winter 2024-25
    Issue #162
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Winter 2024-25

    $8.99 – $18.00
    Guest Editor
    John Skoyles

    The Winter 2024-25 issue, guest edited by John Skoyles, features poetry and prose by Joan Silber, Timothy Liu, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Emily Fragos, Charles Baxter, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Malena Mörling, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Susan Bartolme, Andy Chen, and Billy Lezra, and an interview with the John C….

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  • Spring 2024
    Issue #159
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Spring 2024

    $8.99 – $18.00
    Guest Editor
    Laila Lalami

    The Spring 2024 issue, guest-edited by Laila Lalami, features poetry and prose by Mosab Abu Toha, Nathalie Handal, January Gill O’Neil, Farah Abdessamad, Francisco Goldman, Tommy Orange, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Molly Aitken. Cover art by Sierra Montoya Barela. 

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  • Winter 2023-24
    Issue #158
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Winter 2023-24

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editors
    Ladette Randolph
    John Skoyles

    The Winter 2023-24 issue, features poetry and prose by Richard Bausch, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Ian Stansel, Ariana Benson, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Marie Howe, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Logan Klutse, J Lazar, Mengyin Lin, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Claire Luchette. Cover…

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  • A journal cover with a patterned woman outline with origami birds around her
    Issue #131
    Poetry

    Winter 2016-17

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editors
    Ladette Randolph
    John Skoyles

    The Winter 2016-17 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited. This staff edited issue of Ploughshares features a vibrant collection of essays, poems, and short…

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  • A journal cover with two black chairs drawn against a red background
    Issue #126
    Poetry

    Spring 2015

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Neil Astley

    Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic….

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    Poetry

    Ploughshares Solos Omnibus Volume 1

    $9.99 – $19.95
    Guest Editor
    Ladette Randolph

    Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the Ploughshares Solos digital series, unite for the first time in this inaugural collection. Follow a street urchin’s transformation into a burlesque star and a woman’s solitary, hectic journey through Israel and the West Bank. Wait with Kafka’s last physician for “the patient in room 12” to…

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  • A journal cover with a photograph of a woman at a laundromat leaning into a washing machine
    Issue #110
    Poetry

    Winter 2009-10

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Tony Hoagland

    The Winter 2009-10 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Tony Hoagland. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This issue of Ploughshares features selections of poetry and prose by award-winning poet Tony Hoagland. In his introduction, he writes, “Let’s just say that…

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  • A journal cover of a photograph of an artist's studio with a purple background
    Issue #54
    Poetry

    Spring 1991

    $6.99
    Guest Editor
    M. L. Rosenthal

    Works-In-Progress Issue An issue of Ploughshares from Spring 1991, guest-edited M. L. Rosenthal. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This “Works-in-Progress” issue is guest-edited by the poet, translator, and literary critic M. L. Rosenthal. “The work collected here,” Rosenthal writes…

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  • A journal cover of a painting of two figures embracing in a marsh
    Issue #50
    Poetry

    Winter 1989

    $6.99
    Guest Editor
    Marilyn Hacker

    Diversity/Adversity Issue An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1989, guest-edited Marilyn Hacker. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This classic issue, guest-edited by the poet Marilyn Hacker, explores the themes of diversity and adversity. “What is in our experience can…

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  • A journal cover with abstract art of a woman sleeping in muted brown color tones
    Issue #44
    Poetry

    Winter 1987

    $6.99
    Guest Editor
    Bill Knott

    An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1987, guest-edited by Bill Knott. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This classic all-poetry issue, guest-edited by poet Bill Knott, features the work of a number of outstanding poets, including Gary Soto, Sharon Olds,…

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  • A journal cover of a woman standing beside empty bowls on the ground
    Issue #42
    Poetry

    Spring 1987

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Derek Walcott

    An issue of Ploughshares from Spring 1987, guest-edited by Derek Walcott. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This classic all-poetry issue, guest-edited by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott, features the work of a number of established masters…

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  • A journal cover with blue text and an abstract line drawing of two ghosts
    Issue #40
    Poetry

    Fall 1986

    $6.99
    Guest Editor
    Charles Simic

    An issue of Ploughshares from Fall 1986, guest-edited by Charles Simic. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This classic poetry issue, with select nonfiction, is guest-edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Charles Simic, and features the work of a number of…

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  • A journal cover: drawing of a deer jumping behind a house with a city in the background
    Issue #36
    Poetry

    Spring 1985

    $6.99
    Guest Editor
    Thomas Lux

    The Spring 1985 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Thomas Lux. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

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  • A journal cover: black and white image of bare trees with petals on the ground
    Issue #33
    Poetry

    Spring 1984

    $6.99
    Guest Editor
    Seamus Heaney

    The Spring 1984 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Seamus Heaney. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

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  • A beige journal cover with an abstract image of three people talking
    Issue #27
    Poetry

    Spring 1982

    $6.99
    Guest Editor
    Joyce Peseroff

    The Spring 1982 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Joyce Peseroff. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

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