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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.
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Ernest Trova World
Guest post by Bridget Lowe I have always lived in relationship to the objects around me, sharing an intimacy with inert matter that can yield both exhilarating and excruciating results–plastic and primary colors make me feel physically ill (especially in … Continue reading
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David Kirby on Time and Samurai
David Kirby’s poem “Baby Handle” appears in our Spring 2010 issue. It transports us to a Samurai sword-fighting lesson in Tokyo, and introduces us to a teacher who reminds us that sometimes the idea “isn’t to win, / it’s not … Continue reading
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Laughing into the Abyss
Guest post by Scott Nadelson My parents went out of their way to warn me about A Serious Man, the most recent film by Joel and Ethan Coen. They’d seen it a week before I did, with several friends from … Continue reading
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In the Spirit of Catherine of Siena
Guest post by Carol Keeley I grew up in small town in Michigan with thick-armed trees and noble Victorians, lush farm produce, a turn of the century Opera House. It’s leafy, kind, conservative, and typically Midwestern but for the blessed … Continue reading
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Behind the Scenes at Ploughshares
Some authors mail poems on loose-leaf paper. Others are solicited by guest editors. With so many different voices collaborating on one magazine, we understand that readers and writers are curious how many cooks are in the Ploughshares kitchen. Here’s an … Continue reading
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Doreen Gildroy on the Wholly Other
Doreen Gildroy’s poem “Celestial Room” appears in our Spring 2010 issue. Excerpt from “Celestial Room”: I remember when I was four a book seemed from heaven and then, when I was eight, it seemed a field. It continues to explore … Continue reading
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The Art of Half-Hearted Hobbying
Guest post by Scott Nadelson A good friend of mine has a theory about the fundamental difference between poets and fiction writers: Poets have hobbies and fiction writers don’t. He happens to be a fiction writer and of course has … Continue reading
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The Conceit of Wisdom
Guest post by Carol Keeley Garrison Keillor kicked the beehive with his recent death-of-publishing op-ed. The reaction was vigorously optimistic, with a little messenger-mocking. The backdrop to this volley was BookExpo America, widely described as funereal. As usual, I agree … Continue reading
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My Dinner with Girolamo
Guest post by Bridget Lowe If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would it be? This question has always struck me as an annoying and strange litmus test for I know not what. Anyhow, I think … Continue reading
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Robert Farnsworth on the Private and the Public
Two of Robert Farnsworth’s poems appear in our Spring 2010 issue: “Archive,” and “Theatre,” which is available to read on our site. In “Archive,” we’re introduced to what might be our own collection of books, amazed by what we’ve left … Continue reading
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