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  • Fall 2026

    The Fall 2026 issue features longform poetry and prose by Margaret Ray, Allison Funk, Susan Nguyen, Kevin Wilson, Jim Daniels, acj, and Mary Di Lucia. Cover art by Erik Benson.

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Language Rushed Into Place

In this illuminating epistolary dialogue, poets Annie Wenstrup and Asa Drake discuss their relationships to food, body image, desire, belonging, and landscape, meditating on the powerful ways poetry can make difficult experiences legible.

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Free Content: Fall 2026 Editors’ Note

Read an epistolary Editors’ Note between Editor-in-Chief Jenny Molberg and Nonfiction Editor Hanif Abdurraqib from the Fall 2026 issue of Ploughshares.

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Guest Editor Spotlight: Victor LaValle

Read fiction edited by Victor LaValle, Guest Editor of the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares.

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