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...

Standoff Terrain takes its inspiration from Sun TzusThe Art of War. It is a book of love poems for losers, and since almost everybody has lost at love… well, this book is probably for you. In the end, these poems are about how power and lack of power affect who and why we love.

Become a Kairomancer Synchronicity is when the universe gets personal. Through this book of games and enchanting stories, you’ll learn how to monitor the play of coincidence and the symbolic resonance of incidents in daily life in order to tap into the deeper logic of events, receive extraordinary counsel, and have wonderful fun.You will be invited to become a kairomancer: someone who is poised to catch the messages in special moments when synchronicity is in play ...

16-year-old Mochizuki Touya has it all. Grand Duke of an upstart nation, inventor of goods ranging from hula hoop to caramelized popcorn, administrator of Babylon, and pilot of the Anti-Phrase Frame Gears. The western nations love him... but darker machinations unfurl in the far east. Yulong, the glorious Empire of Heaven, regards Touya with envious eyes, brazen enough to send assassins into Brunhild! To make matters worse, the mysterious young girl known as Sakura seems to have a connecti...

A young man writes letters in a last gasp at finding meaning in the world.

"A heady, infectious celebration."-The New Yorker"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."-Harvard ReviewBrenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects-trauma, childbirth, loss of faith-and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.We have original fiction from Cadwell Turnbull ("Loneliness is in Your Blood") and Carrie Vaughn ("Redcap"), along with reprints by Lilliam Rivera ("The H8te") and Ashok Banker ("Blood Mangoes"). In our nonfiction department, author Kat Howard talks about the terror of changelings in t...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth BergHurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time—during those periods that are not apparently miraculous?...

This unique journal guides and encourages you to reflect on your day in the style of everyone’s favorite short-form poem—the haiku. It offers 102 creative prompts to help you think about different aspects of your life and capture them in 17 syllables. Conceived by the Haiku Guys & Gals, this journal also contains examples of their poems for inspiration. The prompts encourage you to write haiku on a range of subjects: a tribute to your hero, an ode to a childhood memory, a note on the weath...

Anyone who spends even a little time in Japan will have a few good stories to tell when they get back home.But rubbing elbows with the Japanese, on their own turf, is good for more than just a laugh. The experience can give you a lot of insight into yourself. And that's not the kind of thing you can pick up in any old souvenir shop.This illustrated Japan travel culture guie is for anyone who can read English (and even if you can't, you can always look at th...

A selection of poetry covering topics including, life, death, the universe and everything else. Whilst this book is clearly aimed at adults a small section including some of the children's poems from the forthcoming book of children's verse are included. The book is a rollercoaster ride, containing some light hearted verse mixed with much darker poetry.

"From Alef to Beth" is a short story based on real magical events and inspirations. With quick journal-esque entries through dream-like experiences, the pursuits of this fool are an easy and convenient read - certainly attainable through one week of regular bowel movements; set it on the back of your toilet and enjoy the adventures of this foolish peasant from upon your porcelain throne. For the humanitarian at heart and the curious at hand, this book is waiting for you.