Ploughshares

by Nick Flynn

The Spring 2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Nick Flynn. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This issue, guest-edited by poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, contains a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories, from Eric Fair's essay Consequence, on being an interrogator at Abu Ghraib, to Major Jackson's list poem, "Why I Write Poetry." This stylistically varied issue features emerging poets like Samuel Amadon and Sophie Klahr, as well as established writers such as Steve Almond, Mark Slouka, D. A. Powell, Claudia Rankine, Lauren Groff, and others.

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Nick Flynn

EDITOR PROFILE
Susanna Sonnenberg

FICTION

"Gondwana," by Steve Almond
"Flux," by Mary Morris
"Sinkhole," by Jamie Quatro
"Dog," by Mark Slouka
"Patrol," by David Yost

NONFICTION

"The Blowjob Whale," by Sarah Braunstein
"Consequence," by Eric Fair
"How to Live with Uncertainty," by Kelle Groom
"The Removers," by Andrew Meredith
"The Adventure Family," by Melissa Sandor
"The Devil's Spine," by Maria Venegas

POETRY

Samuel Amadon
Beth Bachmann
Mary Jo Bang
Hadara Bar-Nadav
Grace Bauer
Sean Bishop
Danielle Blau
Shane Book
Joel Brouwer
Joseph J. Capista
Patricia Caspers
Victoria Chang
Mark Conway
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Michael Dumanis
Monica Ferrell
Deborah Flanagan
Duriel E. Harris
Marie Howe
Ishion Hutchinson
Major Jackson
Sophie Klahr
Michael Klein
Sarah Kortemeier
Joan Larkin
Thomas Lux
Sarah Messer
Carrie Moniz
Eileen Myles
Gregory Pardlo
D. A. Powell
Claudia Rankine
Roger Reeves
John Rybicki
Glenn Shaheen
Kent Shaw
Mary Szybist
James Tolan
M. A. Vizsolyi
Rebecca Wadlinger
Charles Harper Webb
Allison Benis White
Suzanne Wise
Ronnie Yates
Rachel Zucker

MISC.

"Swimming," a Plan B Essay by Lauren Groff

POSTSCRIPTS

Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction

BOOKSHELF

- Jennifer De Leon Say Her A Novel, by Francisco Goldman
- Sherrie Flick The Inverted A Novel, by John Dalton
- Christopher Hennessy Poems, by C. Dale Young
- John Skoyles The Memory of Poems, by Jack Myers; and God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Later Collected Poems, by Stanley Moss
- Scott Stanfield Abbott A Novel, by Chris Bachelder

212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Nick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet.



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