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  • Trouble Funk

    by Douglas Manuel ...
    The speaker of Testify returns to divulge his parents’ love story. Set in Anderson, Indiana in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, Trouble Funk exposes ways Black Love is thwarted but never destroyed by racism, classism, and sexism. Eschewing the “lyrical I” in favor of a third person omniscient point of view, this text exhibits how the latter half of the twentieth century rhymes with our current moment ... Read more

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  • Testify

    by Douglas Manuel ...
    This award-winning debut book of poetry examines race, masculinity, religion, class, and the African American experience in the American Midwest.A book of elegiac ambivalence, Testify's speaker often finds himself trapped between received binaries: black and white, ghetto and suburban, atheism and Catholicism. In many ways, this work is a Bildungsroman detailing the maturation of a black man ... Read more

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  • Ploughshares Spring 2025 Guest-edited by Peggy Shumaker

    by Peggy Shumaker, Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim S. Seibles, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lia Purpura, Sonja Livingston, Marjorie Sandor, Kelli Russell Agodon, William Archilla, Rick Barot, Lory Bedikian, Jocko Benoit, Fleda Brown, Susan Campbell, Jeanne E. Clark, Madelyn Chen, Kevin Clark, Lindsay D'Andrea, David Daniel, Oliver de la Paz, Mai Der Vang, Stuart Dybek, Leila Farjami, Kevin Goodan, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Sean Hill, Jane Hirshfield, Cynthia Hogue, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Kimberly Johnson, L.A. Johnson, Brian Komei Dempster, Douglas Manuel, Chloe Martinez, Cleopatra Mathis, Jennifer Militello, Triin Paja, Susanna J. Mishler, Hilda Raz, James Richardson, Alberto Ríos, Nicholas Samaras, William Pitt Root, Lis Sanchez, Elaine Sexton, Maurya Simon, Frank Soos, Brian Tierney, Pamela Uschuk ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Sun Over The Mountains

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  • Just Like Me

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