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
