The gift for graduates—and anyone, of any age, destined for the great and the good—this lush inspirational poem-in-pictures celebrates the resilience and dignity of human decency and the potential in each of us.We are each made, fundamentally, from the good, and we exist in service to a simple idea: that we can be not only good, but better. That is the joyful premise of the poem at the heart of this profound and exquisitely illustrated pic...

The Spring 2025 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 Spring 2025 Issue, edited by Peggy Schumaker, features poetry and prose by Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim Seibl...