The Winter 2013-14 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.
Dedicated to Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), a former guest editor, this issue of Ploughshares features a short remembrance of the Irish master by the poet Joyce Peseroff. The prose has a particularly international flavor, from Andrew Foster Altschul's story "Embarazada," about a fraught relationship between a Peruvian waitress and an American tourist, to "498," about a soldier caught in the brutality of the Spanish Civil War. Robert Anthony Seigel's Plan B essay describes his years as a tour guide for Japanese visitors to New York, and Jennifer Acker celebrates the work of the Australian writer Shirley Hazzard.
The Winter issue also features poetry by Kevin Young, Linda Bamber, Michael Mlekoday, and Carl Dennis, among many others; a newly discovered poem by Alan Dugan; and the winners of the Emerging Writer's Contest.
DEDICATION
"Remembering Seamus Heaney," by Joyce Peseroff
FICTION
"Embarazada," by Andrew Foster Altschul
"By Morning, New Mercies," by Randi Beck
"La Desaparecida," by Jaquira Diaz
"The Blue Bowl," by Emma Duffy-Comparone
"Fat," by Marie Potoczny
"498," by Julian Zabalbeascoa
NONFICTION
"Pilgrimage," by Sandell Morse
POETRY by
Linda Bamber
Michael Bazzett
Joel Brouwer
Dale Cottingham
Carl Dennis
Alan Dugan
Alan Feldman
Sara Gelston
Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)
Richie Hofmann
Michael Homolka
Rosa Lane
Amber McBride
Michael Mlekoday
Tim Nolan
C. L. O'Dell
Joshua Rivkin
Linwood Rumney
Rebecca Seiferle
Martha Silano
Charles Simic
Danez Smith
Pantea Amin Tofangchi
Afaa Michael Weaver
Kevin Young
EMERGING WRITER'S CONTEST
"The Sugar Bowl," by Memory Blake Peebles
"Rock-a-bye, Ute," by Mary Winsor
Two Poems, by Josephine Yu
MISC
"Unreliable Tour Guide," a Plan B essay by Robert Anthony Siegel
"A Rereading Shirley Hazzard," a Look2 Essay by Jennifer Acker
POSTSCRIPTS
Zacharis Award Winner Lysley Tenorio
