https://ploughshares.org/
Ploughshares - Building a future beyond nuclear fear
Apr 13, 2026 - Building a futurebeyond nuclear fear. Learn about our sunflower We are a hub where thought leaders, innovators, campaigners, and activists convene and take...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/chinelo-okparanta/
Chinelo Okparanta Archives - Ploughshares
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https://www.lord-copper.com/post/turning-ploughshares-into-swords-why-war-is-good-for-the-metals-business
Turning Ploughshares into Swords (Why War is Good for the Metals Business)
Jan 17, 2023 - At a meeting of some of the writers and sponsors of this site towards the end of last year, there was a debate about the value or otherwise of war to the...
https://pshares.org/issue-article/fiddle/
The Fiddle - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - It was made to play by itself over telephones on ears that had receivers on clotheslines, on steeplechase frenzy of the tight road, for strings are made of the...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/jeff-jackson/
Jeff Jackson Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/how-the-word-is-passed/
How the Word Is Passed Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/killing-flies-georgia/
Killing Flies in Georgia - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - I go only part way back tonight, sidetracked by fly buzz and the lies of old letters, and then Blotchy starts killing flies again and all the years between do...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/street/
The Street - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - On it lives one bird who commences singing, for some reason best known to itself, at precisely 4 a.m. Each day I listen for it in the night. I too have a song...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/imagination/
imagination Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/ps/author/laurenbrooks/
Lauren Bo, Author at Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/sarah-viren/
Sarah Viren - Ploughshares
Sarah Viren is a writer and translator. Her poetry and prose can be found in AGNI, the Iowa Review, the Colorado Review, The Normal School, and others. Her...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/alawiya-sobh/
Alawiya Sobh Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/emily-moore/
Emily Moore - Ploughshares
Emily Moore teaches English at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Her writing has appeared in The Yale Review and Newsweek.
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https://pshares.org/authors/april-goldman/
April Goldman - Ploughshares
Apr 21, 2026 - April Goldman is a poet living in Truckee, Calif. She earned her MFA from the University of Houston, and her recent work appears in Narrative Magazine, The...
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https://page99test.blogspot.com/2022/08/jayita-sarkars-ploughshares-and-swords.html?m=0
The Page 99 Test: Jayita Sarkar's "Ploughshares and Swords"
Jayita Sarkar is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow and the Founding Director of the Global Decolo...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/greg-schreur/
Greg Schreur Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/kai-maristed/
Kai Maristed - Ploughshares
Kai Maristed is the author of three novels, including Broken Ground (Counterpoint, 2003), a Berlin Wall journey, and the story collection Belong to Me (starred...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/war-eagle/
War Eagle Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/japanese-carp-pond-maui/
Japanese Carp in the Pond: Maui - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - These fish are older than I. Every morning I learn from the koi how to swim in the wind- ruffled pond: the flow of the tail, the fan of the fins in water, eyes...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/dean-has-no-comment/
The Dean Has No Comment - Ploughshares
Mar 30, 2026 - Seven, maybe eight years old, nude, and outOf nowhere there she wasStreaked from the waist down in glisteningPebbled green shit, shivering as she ate a tube of...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/old-rendering-plant/
Old Rendering Plant Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/craig-raine/
Craig Raine Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/henrik-nordbrandt/
Henrik Nordbrandt - Ploughshares
Henrik Nordbrandt was born in Denmark in 1945, and lives much of the time in Greece and Turkey. The author of seventeen volumes of poetry, he has been the...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/jean-valentine/
Jean Valentine Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/celebration/
Celebration Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/forrest-gander/
Forrest Gander - Ploughshares
Apr 6, 2026 - Forrest Gander is the editor of Mouth to Mouth, a bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poets, and the author of five poetry books, including Torn Awake...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/verendrye-waterway-west/
Verendrye: A Waterway to the West - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - All messages presented a plain solution. One morning in the east valley, the sun was eclipsed and as the sentry steadied the cooking pot, there was a brief and...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/island/
The Island - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - Upon reaching shore the nearly drowned man asserted his independence from the sea by wringing it out of his hat and hands. And then the trees standing knee to...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/n-scott-momaday/
N. Scott Momaday Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/angie-estes/
Angie Estes - Ploughshares
Mar 3, 2026 - Angie Estes is the author of four books, most recently Tryst (Oberlin College Press, 2009), which was selected as one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/walt-disney-presents/
Walt Disney Presents - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - Each of them holding a phone, at either end of the line. Bess is in her lap, watching the phone very carefully; he is leaning across his office desk on an...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/beasts-of-a-little-land/
Beasts of a Little Land Archives - Ploughshares
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https://ploughshares.ca/tag/refugees/
Refugees Archives - Project Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/write/
Write Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/superstition-mountains-april/
Superstition Mountains, April - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - We are sitting by a blue lake in the middle of the desert, dropping french fries left from lunch into the mouths of giant, waiting carp. You say if this were...
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https://ploughshares.org/event/seattle-chain-reaction-2026/
Chain Reaction 2026 (Seattle): When the World Changes, Someone Has to Explain It. - Ploughshares
Apr 20, 2026 - When the World Changes, Someone Has to Explain It. Join us for an intimate luncheon conversation on nuclear risk in a time of war. Wednesday, April 22, 2026 |...
https://pshares.org/blog/tag/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/remembering-the-poetry-of-leonard-cohen/
Remembering the Poetry of Leonard Cohen - Ploughshares
Jan 30, 2026 - Leonard Cohen, the Canadian poet, novelist and songwriter, died last week at the age of 82, after publicly stating to the press that he was ready to die. He...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/my-confusion-program-inheritance-indecision/
My Confusion Program, an Inheritance of Indecision - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - I am a child of a Confessor, born in 1956, the same year the McCarthyesque Chinese Confession Program was sanctioned. Its purpose, simply put, was to seek and...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/after-whitman-gramscis-whitman/
After Whitman (Gramsci's Whitman) - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - the Butcher the Baker NOT the Banker the Athlete (ghetto-to-flanker) the Schoolboy (sent to the sink) the Mechanic the Auto-Body-Man the Roofer (eats out of...
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https://pshares.org/authors/samara-kanegis/
Samara Kanegis - Ploughshares
Samara Kanegis has spent several years researching and working within various North American circuses. Her first play, Two Trailers, was recently produced in...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/the-guilt-collector/
The Guilt Collector - Ploughshares
Dec 11, 2024 - Last week, unfortunately on one of the evenings when Haseeb was home in time for dinner with me and the children, the watchman informed us that Mariam had...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/massachusetts-three-liners/
Massachusetts Three-Liners - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - In this form invented by the author, each three-line poem has exactly 17 words. I. VERITAS 1. Harvard's River Such blinding brilliance, mirroring Sol on flow:...
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https://ploughshares.org/nuketalk/mission-impossible/
Mission Impossible(s) - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/fogg-poems-claes-oldenburg-geometric-mouse-variation-1-scale/
from The Fogg Poems: To Claes Oldenburg of Geometric Mouse: Variation 1, Scale A - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - Corten steel and aluminum When did it begin, the hardening, the first tremors of arteriosclerosis of the art. Was it barely perceptible, a pudding thickening,...
https://pshares.org/blog/tag/last-long-night/
Last Long Night Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/rupert-brooke/
Rupert Brooke Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/haiti/
Haiti Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/robin-reagler/
Robin Reagler - Ploughshares
Robin Reagler grew up in a one-stoplight Arkansas town where her parents run a general store. Now she lives in New York. In conjunction with her writing she...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/history-of-wolves/
History of Wolves Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/kim-brooks/
Kim Brooks Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/sonora-review/
Sonora Review Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/they-flee/
They Flee - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - And now they range beneath wheatfields in unmanned chambers out of range. They point themselves at celestial targets; today they are rediscovering snow....
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/heid-e-erdrich/
Heid E. Erdrich Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/oranges/
oranges Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/winter-numbers-and-selected-poems-1965-1990-marilyn-hacker/
Winter Numbers and Selected Poems 1965-1990 by Marilyn Hacker - Ploughshares
Jan 27, 2026 - Winter Numbers and Selected Poems 1965-1990, poems by Marilyn Hacker (W.W. Norton, forthcoming in Oct.)
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/when-mr-pirzada-came-to-dine/
"When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/to-his-love/
To His Love Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/rev-high-gold-lee-richmond/
rev. of High on Gold by Lee Richmond - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - This first novel is neither polished and gemlike nor gusty and pungent, nor funny, nor exceptionally brilliant, nor prophetic in its earnestly Mailerian effort...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/gabino-iglesias/
Gabino Iglesias Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/the-importance-of-the-difficult/
The Importance of the Difficult - Ploughshares
Jan 30, 2026 - What is the role of difficult poetry? What does it do that more accessible poetry cannot do? And might it not have a political import?
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/home-birth/
Home Birth - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - The cord throbs in your hand. So it all went well. Now darkness comes to the farm, rising in the barn like water, leveling the fields. Tonight, will the sheep...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/edna-obrien/
Edna O'Brien Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/independent-publishing/
independent publishing Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/the-narrowed-divide-of-stylists-shape-shifters-and-multiple-aesthetics/
The Narrowed Divide: Of Stylists, Shape-Shifters, and Multiple Aesthetics - Ploughshares
Jan 30, 2026 - Our collective understanding of how a story, poem, or essay should operate remains in constant flux; every sentence is a new description of language, every...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/dawsons-creek/
Dawson's Creek Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/days-1986/
Days of 1986 - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - He was believed by his peers to be an important poet, But his erotic obsession, condemned and strictly forbidden, Compromised his standing, and led to his...
days ofploughshares
https://pshares.org/authors/marcia-karp/
Marcia Karp - Ploughshares
Marcia Karp has poems and translations in The Partisan Review, Republic of Letters, Literary Imagination, The Guardian, Seneca Review, Agenda, Harvard Review,...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/stephen-king/
Stephen King Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/the-artist-as-writer/
The Artist as Writer - Ploughshares
Jan 30, 2026 - In 1973, Kusama Yayoi returned to Japan from New York and began experimenting with poetry and fiction.
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/book/
book Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/multimedia/
multimedia Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/first-poem/
First Poem - Ploughshares
Mar 24, 2026 - In the dream he was a hawk with blood on its beak.In the dream he was a hawk. In the dream he was a woman, naked, indolent from pleasure, a gleam of sperm on...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/taboo/
taboo Archives - Ploughshares
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https://ploughsharestoswords.blogspot.com/
Ploughshares to Swords
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https://pshares.org/authors/anne-halley/
Anne Halley - Ploughshares
Apr 27, 2026 - Anne Halley has two collections of poetry out from The University of Massachusetts Press, the most recent, The Bearded Mother in 1979. She also writes fiction,...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/university-of-pennsylvania/
University of Pennsylvania Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/letters-ireland/
Letters from Ireland - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - October 28, 1980 Dear Gail, Caroline and Pete, I am finally in residence at No. 8 Brighton Vale, having been in the meantime in Scotland, namely Glasgow and...
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https://pshares.org/authors/alice-elliott-dark/
Alice Elliott Dark - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/feeding-my-mother/
Feeding My Mother Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/black-sunday/
Black Sunday Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/novel-writing/
novel-writing Archives - Ploughshares
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Cart - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/glitch-art/
glitch art Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/lesser-known-monsters-of-the-21st-century/
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/piyali-bhattacharya/
Piyali Bhattacharya - Ploughshares
Jan 20, 2026 - Piyali Bhattacharya is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Wall Street Journal. Her edited anthology, Good...
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https://pshares.org/authors/sascha-feinstein/
Sascha Feinstein - Ploughshares
Mar 17, 2026 - Sascha Feinstein is the author of Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present and the co-editor, with Yusef Komunyakaa, of The Jazz Poetry Anthology and The...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/ernesto/
Ernesto Archives - Ploughshares
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https://www.careexperienceandculture.com/master/ploughshares-at-emerson-college
Ploughshares at Emerson College
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/mit/
MIT Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/reading-new-orleans-writers-on-hurricanes-and-home/
Reading New Orleans Writers on Hurricanes and Home - Ploughshares
Jan 30, 2026 - When Hurricane Ida struck New Orleans, I was one of the lucky ones with family outside of the city that I could stay with to ride out the aftermath of the...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/tana-french/
Tana French Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/nancy-chen-long/
Nancy Chen Long - Ploughshares
Mar 23, 2026 - Nancy Chen Long is the author of Wider Than the Sky (Diode Editions, 2020), which was selected for the Diode Editions Full-Length Book Prize, andLight into...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/introvert-power/
Introvert Power Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/denise-cuhaj/
Denise Cuhaj Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/minor-riot-mint/
A Minor Riot at the Mint - Ploughshares
Dec 15, 2023 - Custome is the most certain Mistresse of language, as the publicke stampe makes current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day...
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https://pshares.org/blog/tag/p-inman/
P. Inman Archives - Ploughshares
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https://pshares.org/authors/robin-cooper-stone/
Robin Cooper-Stone - Ploughshares
Feb 3, 2026 - Robin Cooper-Stone lives in Norfolk, Virginia, and is currently applying to graduate writing programs. Her poetry recently appeared in Another Chicago...
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https://pshares.org/authors/david-greenberg/
David Greenberg - Ploughshares
Apr 22, 2026 - David Greenberg was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Yale and from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He works at a...
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https://pshares.org/issue-article/either-or/
Either Or - Ploughshares
Apr 28, 2026 - Death, in the orderly procession of random events on this gradually expiring planet crooked in a negligible arm of a minor galaxy adrift among millions of...
eitherploughshares