PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932317
Jane Delury
{"title":"Goodbye, Raymond Carver","authors":"Jane Delury","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the <i>New York Times</i> named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932305
Suzanne Roberts
{"title":"Gaps and Silences","authors":"Suzanne Roberts","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932305","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the <i>New York Times</i> named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932315
Drew Calvert
{"title":"The Hostages","authors":"Drew Calvert","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932315","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the <i>New York Times</i> named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932303
Vere Heath Nelson
{"title":"Recognition","authors":"Vere Heath Nelson","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the <i>New York Times</i> named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141614315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932304
DK Nnuro
{"title":"Minstrelin'","authors":"DK Nnuro","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932304","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the <i>New York Times</i> named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932311
Dur e Aziz Amna
{"title":"Havaldar of Rangoon","authors":"Dur e Aziz Amna","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932311","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the <i>New York Times</i> named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932301
Peter Mountford
{"title":"Prolific Donor","authors":"Peter Mountford","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the <i>New York Times</i> named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932302
Randy F. Nelson
{"title":"Hover O'er Me With Your Wings","authors":"Randy F. Nelson","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the <i>New York Times</i> named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932310
{"title":"Contributors' Notes","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932310","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Contributors’ Notes <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><strong>Dur e Aziz Amna</strong> is a writer based in Newark, NJ. Her debut novel, <em>American Fever</em> (Skyhorse, 2022), won the SABA Award and the APALA Award for Literature. Her work has also been published in the <em>Financial Times, Aljazeera</em>, the <em>New York Times</em>, and others, and has won several awards, such as the Financial Times Essay Prize and the London Magazine Prize for Fiction. She is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program.</p> <p><strong>Molly Anders</strong> is a fiction writer from Kentucky. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming from <em>One Story, Passages North, Hobart, North American Review</em>, the <em>Stinging Fly</em>, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.</p> <p><strong>Ramona Ausubel</strong> is the author of five books, most <em>recently The Last Animal</em> (Riverhead), which was named a best book of 2023 by <em>NPR, Kirkus</em>, and the <em>Oprah Quarterly</em>, and was a Barnes & Noble Book Club selection. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA Fiction Award, and her work has been published in the <em>New Yorker</em>, the <em>New York Times</em>, the <em>Paris Review, One Story</em>, and elsewhere. She is a professor at Colorado State University.</p> <p><strong>Joy Deva Baglio</strong> is a speculative/ literary writer whose short stories have appeared in journals such as the <em>Missouri Review, Tin House, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions</em>, the <em>Iowa Review</em>, the <em>Fairy Tale Review</em>, and elsewhere. Recent honors include fellowships, scholarships, and residencies from Yaddo, Ragdale, The Elizabeth George Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Vermont Studio Center, and The Kerouac Project, among others. She is at work on a novel and short story collection and plays the bagpipes when she is not writing. Find her online at www.JoyBaglio.com.</p> <p><strong>Drew Calvert</strong>’s stories have appeared in the <em>Kenyon Review</em>, the <em>Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast</em>, the <em>Missouri Review</em>, and other publications. His awards include an Arts Fellowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Fulbright grant for creative writing. He lives in California.</p> <p><strong>Diana Cao</strong>’s poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in the <em>Threepenny Review</em>, the <em>Georgia Review, 32 Poems</em>, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and International Literary Seminars, and she is a winner of Nimrod International’s 2023 Neruda Prize and Just Buffalo Literary Center’s 2024 Poetry Fellowship. Her first chapbook is <em>Relational</em> (Sixth Finch, 2024).</p> <p><strong>Jane Delury</strong> is the ","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLOUGHSHARESPub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1353/plo.2024.a932298
Juan Martinez
{"title":"My Refugee","authors":"Juan Martinez","doi":"10.1353/plo.2024.a932298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2024.a932298","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the <i>New York Times</i> named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”</p><p>The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":39567,"journal":{"name":"PLOUGHSHARES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}