-
- Follow us!
Ploughshares is the award-winning non-profit literary magazine based at Emerson College in Boston. Most of our print issues are guest-edited, and our mission is to present varying viewpoints. Our blog is an extension of our print publication, and so we feature writing from guest-bloggers. We present their opinions to our readers in order to foster a lively discussion, but do not necessarily endorse all viewpoints published on our blog.
Comments: We moderate all comments on this blog, both to prevent spammers and keep the conversation civil. Comments will be published whether they agree or disagree with the post, as long as they are expressed respectfully and without personally attacking the author or other commenters.
-
-
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Ploughshares’ story cited as the best in Best American Short Stories 2009
Ostracon by Alex Rose, originally published in Ploughshares‘ Fall 2008 issue, was accepted for publication in Best American Short Stories 2009. Edited by Alice Sebold and Heidi Pitlor (a former Ploughshares intern and author), the volume contains stories that are … Continue reading
Miho Nonaka, Winter 2009-10 Contributor
Miho Nonaka is a bilingual writer from Tokyo. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Iowa Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House, among others. She is … Continue reading
Sharona Ben-Tov Muir, Winter 2009-10 Contributor
Sharona Ben-Tov Muir‘s most recent book is The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father’s Lives, from Random House. She has received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Hodder Fellowship, and other awards. Her work has … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors' Notes
Tagged Sharona Ben-Tov Muir, Tony Hoagland, Winter 2009-10
Leave a comment
Rent a (Ploughshares) Author with 826 Boston
Donald Hall (a two-time Ploughshares guest-editor) and Jim Shepard (who is in the process of guest-editing the upcoming Fall 2010 issue) are up for rent! 826 Boston, a non-profit tutoring and writing center for students ages 6-18, is renting nationally-acclaimed … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors' Updates, Events, News, Ploughshares News
Tagged 826, Dave Eggers, good cause, literacy program
Leave a comment
Two Ways of Sailing with Words, by Alicia Jo Rabins
As both a poet and a songwriter, I’m constantly journeying between two distinct ways of making art out of words. Working simultaneously in multiple disciplines has its challenges, but for me, poetry and songwriting are inextricably linked, and they feed … Continue reading
Two Ploughshares Poems Now Available Online
Two poems originally published in Ploughshares are now available online. Tim Nolan‘s “At The Coral Concert” was originally published in the Winter 2007-2008 issue and was chosen to be in Ted Kooser’s column American Life in Poetry last month. Elizabeth Scanlon‘s poem … Continue reading
Rebecca Makkai, Winter 2009-10 Contributor
Rebecca Makkai‘s fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, in journals including New England Review and Threepenny Review, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She lives near Chicago with her husband and daughter. … Continue reading
Mark Halliday, Winter 2009-10 Contributor
Mark Halliday teaches at Ohio University. His fifth book of poems, Keep This Forever, was published in 2008 by Tupelo Press. Halliday’s poems, “South Street, October,” “No Vacation for Maigret,” and “A Gender Theory,” were published in the Winter 2009-10 … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors' Notes
Tagged Mark Halliday, poetry, Tony Hoagland, Winter 2009-10
Leave a comment
Henry Hart, Winter 2009-10 Contributor
Henry Hart‘s most recent poetry book is Background Radiation (Salt, 2007). He has also published critical studies of Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, and Geoffrey Hill. His biography, James Dickey: The World as a Lie (Picador 2000), was a runner-up for … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors' Notes
Tagged Henry Hart, poetry, Tony Hoagland, Winter 2009-10
Leave a comment
Donald Hall reads at the University of Virginia
Watch Ploughshares Advisory Editor and former United States Poet Laureate Donald Hall read his poetry at the University of Virginia.
Posted in Contributors' Updates, Multimedia
Tagged Donald Hall, Fall 2001, multimedia, Summer/Fall 1982
Leave a comment
