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<jats:p xml:lang="en"> Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.</jats:p>