John C. Zacharis First Book Award
We are pleased to present J. Estanislao Lopez with the annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for his poetry collection, We Borrowed Gentleness (Alice James Books, 2022). 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 and fiction. This…