For her wild, leaping, surreal imagination, and her startling, unique metaphors, Kelli Russell Agodon has long been one of my favorite poets. Reading her new book, Accidental Devotions, I sometimes felt like I’d entered a dreamscape that has its own rules. For me, one big part of the joy in reading Agodon’s work is learning…
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. Rooted in personal history and questions of craft, Wenstrup and Drake’s correspondence shows us how friendship is a tender and ongoing act…
In this interview, Editor-in-Chief Jenny Molberg speaks with former Ploughshares Poetry Editor and Interim Editor-in-Chief John Skoyles about balancing editing and writing, championing emerging writers, and navigating the challenges of writing from personal experience. The conversation concludes with a reading of one of Skoyles’s poems. Since 2007, John Skoyles served as Ploughshares’ Poetry Editor until…
As readers, we pride ourselves on curating our personal libraries because they visually represent the collection of genres, forms, and authors we admire most. My bookshelf is a disorganized rainbow of dark-spined British literature anthologies, vibrant blue-green-white contemporary paperbacks, and yellowing copies of my favorites, including Little Women, The Secret History, and The Handmaid’s Tale–each…
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