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Monthly Archives: July 2012
First Pshares Single Published! Longer stories available in eBook formats
Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Pshares Singles is an eBook series for these lengthier stories and essays, selected by our editors. A new Single will be published … Continue reading
Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents Natalie Diaz & When My Brother Was an Aztec
I happened to read Natalie Diaz’s book When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) on July Fourth, and it was a surreal experience. I live on small lake in Massachusetts, and as the neighbors blasted the sky … Continue reading
Former Ploughshares editor Don Lee reading at Harvard Bookstore
On July 24th, 2012, Don Lee read from his new novel, The Collective, at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, MA in an event co-sponsored by Ploughshares. Lee was the editor of Ploughshares for 19 years! Rachel Cass, Marketing Manager Harvard Bookstore, introduced … Continue reading
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Literary Boroughs #10: Asheville, North Carolina
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
John Ashbery
I came early in the evening to lower Manhattan, more than an hour before the showcase reading that night at Poets House. I came to browse the showcase shelves and to meet a friend and share a bit of supper … Continue reading
Blurbese: “quiet”
I’m not usually one to pick on my own, but for illustrative purposes only there’s a line to which I’d like to draw your attention from Anne Gray Fischer’s most recent “Women In Trouble” column: The stakes are perhaps too … Continue reading
Andrew Ladd wins AWP Novel Award: A Q & A with one of our own
Ploughshares is thrilled to announce that the winner of the AWP Award for the novel is none other than our beloved book reviews editor, Andrew Ladd. The award is part of the AWP Award Series, an annual competition for new, … Continue reading
Goddard College: Talking with Writers about Teaching (Part 2)
My friends and colleagues Darcey Steinke and Douglas A. Martin and I all got together one afternoon during a break from the Goddard College MFA low-residency program where we all teach to talk about the MFA degree in general, what we feel is different about Goddard … Continue reading
Pshares Singles Launches in just ONE week with “Lady of the Burlesque Ballet”
Timothy Schaffert‘s “Lady of the Burlesque Ballet,” our very FIRST Pshares Single, will be available just one week from today! You can get your very own digital copy for just $1.99 on the Kindle or Nook. Teaser: In a topsy-turvy … Continue reading
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Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life presents Qiu Jin
What fascinates me most about Qiu Jin is the near absence of her work in America, especially considering our love of a rebel and a martyr. Sure, if you Google her name, several sites will offer a version of the … Continue reading
