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Novel Excerpt
From Book of the Cranberry Islands, Chapter 14, The Burial of The Jellyfish; Return of Champlain to the Outer Waters, Section 1 The moon cracks the glass, rising in pure altimeter like a ghost. A ghost rises, its phosphor is the moon. In the center of myself: a stream, travelling neither toward nor away from…
The Unbosoming
I have been a day boarder, Lord. I have preferred the table to the Bed. I have proffered, Lord, and I have profited, Lord, but little, but not. I was Bored, Lord, I was heavy, Lord. Heavy bored. Hopeless, Lord, hideous, Lord. Sexless. I was in love, Lord, but not with You….
About Sherman Alexie: A Profile
Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, grew up on a reservation surrounded by poverty, alcoholism, and disease, and, against the odds, emerged to become a scintillating, multifaceted author, voted by both The New Yorker and Granta as one of the best American writers under forty. In less than nine years, he has produced three novels,…
Novel Excerpt
Everything happens to everyone before it's all over, Harry says to Mary. Everything. . .To some people it happens early in life. To others late. But it all happens. He is smoking on his back in bed. I would marry you, Mary, if I could. But I can't. I know, she says. It's the end….
Dana Levin, Zacharis Award
zacharis award Ploughshares is pleased to present Dana Levin with the tenth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her collection of poems, In the Surgical Theatre (APR). 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 poetry…
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for Hilary In the lit room, an inkblot runs on a napkin like antlers into a three-quarter moon. Beginning to speak, I. . . gesture toward the ceiling, push my hair back behind my ear, wait— hearing a flower, red, blown by wind as on a prairie, in summer.