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A Ploughshares Guide to #AWP12 Chicago
Sarah Stetson, former intern and current Ploughshares reader, bravely manning our table in 2011. AWP 2012 in Chicago is fast approaching, and boy, are we excited! AWP is an annual conference organized...
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The Ploughshares AWP Book Review Competition
There won’t be any book reviews on the blog this week, mostly because we think you should all be at AWP in Chicago instead, buying—and attending readings of—as many books as you can. More importantly,...
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Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?
At my job working the early morning Hydration Stations along the lakefront path serving Gatorade to Chicago-area runners, I work with a 19 year old who also works at the duty-free at the airport...
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Literary Boroughs #30: Evanston, IL
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to...
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Following Tommy
Following Tommy Bob Hartley Cervena Barva Press, July 2012 104 pages $17.00 I was asked to review “Following Tommy” in part because I’m a Chicagoan. Bob Hartley’s first novel is set in the West side...
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Literary Boroughs #32: Chicago
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to...
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A Day in the Life at 826CHI
This post was contributed by Julia Ventola. Tucked away in the heart of Chicago’s Wicker Park, 826CHI is a thriving non-profit writing and tutoring center, dedicated to Chicago’s six- to...
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Binding Community: North Branch Projects Turns Pizza Boxes into Books
Regin Igloria at North Branch Projects. (Image: Nora Maynard) It’s a digital age, but we’re still mad for paper! Even as readers embrace the connectivity and convenience offered by iPads and Kindles,...
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Reading the Environment: Book Artist Melissa Jay Craig
It’s a digital age, but we’re still mad for paper! Even as readers embrace the connectivity and convenience offered by iPads and Kindles, there are still many good reasons to celebrate a book’s...
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STEAL THIS STUFF: What Writers Can Learn from Over the Rhine
Okay Writers. If you’ve been tucked safely away from Great Music over the last two decades, you may be new to the “aggressively beautiful” music of Over the Rhine. Today, the husband/wife duo Linford...
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The Poem and the Hotel
Dear Loews Luxury Hotels & Resorts, When you decided to move in, we were nervous. This is Chicago, an unsophisticated Midwestern city, and you’ve built your leisure palaces for the super-rich all...
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Round-Up: Chicago Public Library Giveaway, the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize, and...
From the Chicago Public Library’s children’s book giveaway to the passing of a central figure in Latin American writing, here’s some of last week’s most important literary news: Writer and activist...
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Big Picture, Small Picture: Context for Sandra Cisneros’ THE HOUSE ON MANGO...
This blog series, Big Picture, Small Picture, provides a contextual collage for a chosen piece of literature. The information here is culled from newspapers, newsreels, periodicals, and other primary...
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