Welcome to PS! PS is Ploughshares’ tribute to our literary histories; an addendum to our print issues. PS presents contemporary dialogues in the epistolary tradition–love letters that revisit, remix, and reimagine our literary past, present, and future.
Ploughshares is excited to announce our new partnership with The Unsung Masters Series. The Unsung Masters Series, supported by The University of Houston, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, and Pleiades, publishes and distributes one book a year that showcases an important writer who has been unjustly neglected and/or whose work is currently out of print. Each…
I went to the Divinity School because I have no faith. I didn’t lose it. I never had it. I don’t believe in politics or in religion, in God or angels. I don’t believe in families or in friendship. I don’t believe in unconditional love. I don’t believe in love at all. That is, as…
“You are too nice,” Kathryn Harrison once said to me. Or perhaps what she said was, “You are very nice!” but to me it sounded like the same thing. I admired and admire Kathryn. She is an astonishing writer and an astonishing soul. Several years ago, she guest-edited an issue of Ploughshares, and she devoted it…
For our inaugural PS post, please enjoy this conversation with Kathryn Nuernberger, Heidi Czerwiec, and Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh about the evolution of lyric essays as seen in the writing of Maxine Kumin, Annie Dillard, and Toi Derricotte, originally published in Ploughshares and linked below.
In January 2026, we hosted Bridget Lowe, Shara McCallum, Maggie Dietz, and Alice Hoffman for a reading at Trident Booksellers in celebration of our Winter 2025-26 issue launch. Filming and editing by Addison Lamaute.
On October 22, 2025, we hosted contributors Juliana Lamy, Heather Thompson-Brenner, and Devon Walker-Figueroa for a reading at Trident Booksellers in celebration of our Fall Longform issue. Filming by Caleigh McCrink.
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