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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: November 2010
Greg Schutz on Multiple Points of View
Greg Schutz‘s story “Joyriders” appears in our Fall 2010 issue edited by Jim Shepard. It opens: Because nights on the third shift seem to stretch longer than they should, and because sleeping through the day has been giving him nightmares, … Continue reading
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Q&A: Literary Agent Julie Barer
Guest post by Megan Mayhew Bergman Q: I used to think agents were really scary, city-savvy people only concerned with the bottom line. However, the more agents I’ve met, the more I realize how many of them truly love literature … Continue reading
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Thank You, Mr. Venturini
Guest post by Greg Schutz Thanksgiving is almost upon us. For me, this means a welcome weeklong vacation from teaching: a chance to dig into that stack of student essays awaiting grades; a chance to sort and stow or recycle … Continue reading
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Why Must I Write?
Guest post by Fan Wu In 2004, I attended the Key West Literary Seminar–my first literary event–where I met Sandra Cisneros, a keynote speaker. Though I had just begun to write and was unpublished, she was encouraging and generous with … Continue reading
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Terrance Hayes awarded 2010 National Book Award for Poetry!
We are proud to announce that Terrance Hayes is the winner of the 2010 National Book Award for his poetry collection Lighthead. Here’s what Publisher’s Weekly had to say in their starred review of Lighthead: The deservedly acclaimed Hayes returns … Continue reading
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Terrance Hayes at Emerson College, December 2
We at Ploughshares are pleased to announce that Terrance Hayes, poet and guest editor of our upcoming Winter 2010 issue, will join us at The Paramount Center on December 2 for a reading and Q+A session. The Q+A will begin … Continue reading
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Thanking Our Departing Blog Editor
Upon his departure for Western Michigan University, where he serves as faculty advisor to Third Coast, all of us at Ploughshares would like to thank Jay Baron Nicorvo for his tireless efforts as editor of our blog over the past … Continue reading
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Writing in a “Phrensy”
Guest post by Greg Schutz In Book II of his De Oratore, Cicero stages a dialogue between Marcus Antonius, Caius Julius Caesar, and several other figures, one of whose subjects is the evocation of emotion in the audience and the … Continue reading
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New Videos of Tony Hoagland Reading
We at Ploughshares are proud to present two new videos from a reading by Tony Hoagland, guest editor of our Winter 2009-10 issue. Click the links to first watch Tony Hoagland read “Demolition” and “Dialectical Materialism” and then “Hard Rain” … Continue reading
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The Great Indoors
Guest post by Greg Schutz I read my friend Sara Schaff’s story “Our Lady of Guazá” in the latest issue of Inkwell with rapt attention, to say the least. This is not simply because the story, about the relationship between … Continue reading
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