Ploughshares summer issue available now – edited by Justin Torres and featuring work from Fred D’Aguiar, Sarah Tindal Kareem, and Lupita Aceves Barragan

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Ploughshares is excited to announce the Summer 2026 issue guest-edited by professor Justin Torres, and featuring poetry and prose by professors Fred D’Aguiar and Sarah Tindal Kareem, doctoral student Lupita Aceves Barragan, and 2025 Author in Residence Yahya Ashour.

Visit the Ploughshares website to read the Summer 2026 issue.

Cover art pictured above by Megan Ellen MacDonald

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