Ploughshares Winter 2014-15

The Winter 2014-15 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. 


This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories. The prose ranges from surreal humor -- David Cameron's "Mannequin," about a man's relationship with a life-size doll he buys to use the HOV lane -- to tragedy in Lisa Gruenberg's essay on the experiences of her Viennese father and his family during the Holocaust. Sherrie Flick's Plan B essay looks at the joy and rage of gardening, and Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant write an appreciation of the Dominican-American poet Rhina P. Espaillat. 


The Winter issue also features poetry by Philip Levine, Sherod Santos, Nalini Jones, Laurie Sewall, and Gary Young; an interview with Zacharis Award winner Roger Reeves; and the winners of the annual Emerging Writer's Contest. 


FICTION 


"Next Year in Juarez," by Christopher Brunt 

"Mannequin," by David Cameron 

"What Remains," by Mary Gordon 

"The Case for Psychic Distance," by Jennifer Hanno 

"No Damage," by Ying-Ju Lai 


NONFICTION 


"A Beautiful Day," by Lisa Gruenberg 

"This World Is Not Your Home," by Matthew Vollmer 


POETRY by 


Keith Althaus 

Jeanne Marie Beaumont 

Remica Bingham-Risher 

Christopher Buckley 

Bruce Cohen 

Tadeusz Dabrowski 

Sierra Golden 

Kathleen Halme 

Zeina Hashem Beck 

Michael Hettich 

Nalini Jones 

Lisa C. Krueger 

Lance Larsen 

Philip Levine 

Wayne Miller 

Michael Morse 

Lex Runciman 

Sherod Santos 

Laurie Sewall 

Mairead Small Staid 

Laura Van Prooyen 

Afaa Michael Weaver 

Gary Young 


EMERGING WRITER'S CONTEST 


Fiction: "Rosalee Carrasco," by Tomiko M. Breland 

Nonfiction: "In the Memory of the Living," by Eliese Colette Goldbach 

Poetry: Three Poems, by Rosalie Moffett 


MISC 


"Caretaker, Murderer, Undertaker," a Plan B essay by Sherrie Flick 

"Dancing in a Box," a Look2 Essay on Rhina P. Espaillat by Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant 


POSTSCRIPTS 


Zacharis Award Winner Roger Reeves