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