Issues

Ploughshares publishes issues four times a year. Two of these issues are guest-edited by different, prominent authors. The other two issues are edited by our staff editors, one a mix of poetry and prose and the other long-form prose.

  • A journal cover with a large decorative "P" and a man sitting and playing the cello
    Issue # 1

    Fall 1971

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editors
    DeWitt Henry
    Peter O’Malley

    The inaugural issue of Ploughshares from Fall 1971, guest-edited by co-founder DeWitt Henry. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. See where it all began! This is the first issue of Ploughshares ever published. Edited by the magazine’s co-founder, DeWitt Henry,…

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