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Spring 2024 guest-edited by Laila Lalami
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The Spring 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Laila Lalami, features poetry and prose by Mosab Abu Toha, Nathalie Handal, January Gill O'Neil, Farah Abdessamad, Francisco Goldman, Tommy Orange, and more.

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White Like Me
When you have a gun pointed at you, there’s an odd calm that washes over. Time slows and your movements become...
The Parasitism of Memory in Burnt Sugar
When an insect is taken over by a parasite, its mind succumbs to its new captor. No longer in control of itself, it...
Decoding the Silences in Corregidora
How do you narrativize silence? Prose writers often neglect their silences, inserting them as off-beats during...
Betrayal in Rainbow Rainbow
In their debut short story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, out today, Lydia Conklin examines what it’s like to inhabit a...
Language and Trauma in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
“‘Have you ever made a scene…and then put yourself inside it?’” the narrator’s mother in Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, On...
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Free Content: Marie Howe

Read Marie Howe's piece "Seventy" from the Winter 2023-24 Issue of Ploughshares.

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Guest Editor Spotlight: Dan Wakefield

In memory of Dan Wakefield, guest-editor of Ploughshares Fall/Winter 1981 Issue.

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From the Archives: Dan Wakefield

Read Dan Wakefield's piece "Reflection" from the Fall 2001 Issue of Ploughshares.