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  • Ploughshares Winter 2023-2024

    by Ladette Randolph, John Skoyles, Stephen Ackerman, Ariana Benson, Mary Lou Buschi, Colin Criss, Nicholas Friedman, Majda Gama, Reginald Gibbons, Sarah Green, Kirun Kapur, Abbie Kiefer, Hilary King, Christopher Kondrich, Mary Dean Lee, Robert Wood Lynn, Amanda Moore, Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer, Ananya Kanai Shah, Gordon Mitchell Smith, Lolita Stewart-White, Samn Stockwell, Ryan Vine, Jesse Wallis, Logan Klutse, J Lazar, Mengyin Lin, Mimi Dixon, Carol Keeley, Jesse Lee Kercheval, J.D. Mathes, Sarah Twombly, Kenneth Calhoun, Mary Granfield, Nahal Suzanne Jamir, Andrew Porter, Ian Stansel, Annie Weatherwax ...
    The Winter 2023-24 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2023-24 Issue, edited ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Black Pastoral

    Poems

    by Ariana Benson, Willie Perdomo ...
    Series series Cave Canem Prize
    Winner of the 2024 Academy of American Poets L****enore Marshall Poetry PrizeFinalist 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard PrizeBlack Pastoral explores the complex duality of Black peoples’ past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black histories and natural/ecological histories), our suffering and our thriving, are forever wound around ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Cloud Builder

    by Weston Morrow, Ariana Benson ...
    Series series The National Poetry Series
    What do we owe the dead? This is the question at the heart of Cloud Builder, in which Weston Morrow interrogates the burden of legacy and the ever-watchful gaze of our deceased loved ones. His search takes him from the landscapes of the late Romantics to the soccer fields and baseball diamonds of present-day Washington state, along the way reanimating figures from his own and our collective past ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.In Sixfold Poetry Winter 2022: Ana Reisens | Pam asked about Europe & other poems :: Krystle May Statler | To the Slow Burn & other poems :: Kristina Cecka | On Remodeling & other poems :: ... Read more

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  • Our Numbered Days

    by Neil Hilborn ...
    "When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection, OUR NUMBERED DAYS. In 2013, Hilborn's poem "OCD" went viral, and has amassed over 11 million views to date. While this collection ruminates on love, heartbreak, and mental illness, these ... Read more

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  • Songs of Exotic Birds

    by Merle Fischlowitz ...
    Songs of Exotic Birds contains poems written over a span of sixty years, forming an arc of life and capturing moments the writers memory stubbornly cannot lose. Merle Fischlowitz also writes in the voices of others that his psychologists ear has caught at special moments or rites of passage, where irony imbues the experiences. From childhood memories to todays cyber-news, these poems invite you ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2023

    by Vivian Gornick, Robert Atwan ...
    Series series Best American
    In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Caged Owl

    New & Selected Poems

    by Gregory Orr ...
    Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail.This long ... Read more

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  • Counting Descent

    by Clint Smith ...
    From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America * Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * "One Book One New Orleans" 2017 Book Selection * Published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, New Republic, Boston Review, The Guardian, ... Read more

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  • The Best of Brevity

    Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction

    by Zoë Bossiere, Dinty W. Moore ...
    How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal ... Read more

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  • Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something

    by Paul Vermeersch ...
    Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas, erasures, text collage, and other forms to imagine a post-apocalyptic literature built, or rebuilt, from the rubble of the texts that came before. ... Read more

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  • Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

    Work from 1970 to the Present

    Edited by Lex Williford, Michael Martone ...
    From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more.Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country, this collection ... Read more

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