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We’re sad to announce that Susan Conley has moved to Maine and will no longer be serving as our Associate Poetry Editor. She had worked for Ploughshares in various capacities since 1996. We thank her for her dedicated service, and we wish her the best.
Recommendation: Alexai grew up and still lives in a Chicago neighborhood known as Pilsen/Little Village. It’s the largest barrio east of L.A. The neighborhood is the locus of Mexican culture in the Midwest. It is plagued by the usual economic problems that plague most immigrations, and in particular by street gangs. What attracts me to…
John C. Zacharis Award Ploughshares is pleased to present Maile Meloy with the thirteenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her collection of stories, Half in Love (Scribner, 2002). The $1,500 award—which is named after Emerson College’s former president—honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer, alternating annually between fiction and poetry….
MASTHEAD Guest Editor Alice Hoffman Editor Don Lee Managing Editor Gregg Rosenblum Poetry Editor David Daniel Associate Fiction Editor Maryanne O'Hara Founding Editor DeWitt Henry Founding Publisher Peter O'Malley Assistant Fiction Editor: Jay Baron Nicorvo. Editorial Assistant: Olivia Kate Cerrone. Proofreader: Megan Weireter. Bookshelf Advisor: Fred Leebron. Fiction Readers: Maureen Cidzik, Kathleen Rooney, Megan Weireter,…
Recommendation: Dobby Gibson’s poems are remarkable for their enactment of thought. Even at their most associational, there is always a syntax of argument at work which lends his sometimes serpentine sentences forceful momentum. Even when he’s flying by the seat of his pants, there’s a splendid sense of a presiding, living intelligence. —Dean Young, author…
Recommendation: While the subject of Emily Moore’s poems may often seem to be frailty, her true subject is forcefulness. This young poet manages to glance in the direction of her great namesake, Marianne, the doyenne of armor-beaters, while keeping her eye fixed on the matter in hand and forging her own sturdy chain-mail. —Paul Muldoon,…
Recommendation: It is my pleasure to nominate Nuar Alsadir. I have been a great admirer of her work for many years now. With echoes of Rumi and Hafiz, her poems are a delicate mix of the quotidian and the profound. In witty, vibrant, always surprising turns, she reveals to us the weight of each fleeting…
Recommendation: The method of these poems is to juxtapose several elements, forming a kind of scaffolding, a structure to enable both narration and meditation. These long-lined, expansive poems proceed through this sort of triangulation, melding disparate elements so that the whole becomes larger than the sum of its parts. Waitresses talk in a diner while…
Recommendation: I am eager to nominate Michael Morse. I find a keen and seamless craftsmanship in Morse’s poems, which are beautifully understated and distinctly well made. They are quiet, but they have dark undertows, and I find some of them a little heartbreaking. There is real quality and depth in the poetry of this gifted…
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