Ploughshares Spring Launch Party!
When:
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026 6:00p -
8:00p
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026 6:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
338 Newbury st
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Drinks, Food, Good for Groups, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://ploughshares-spring-launch-oysr2.tripleseattickets.com/registration/select
Ploughshares Spring 2026 Issue Launch Party!
Join us to celebrate the release of Ploughshares' Spring 2026 issue, guest-edited by Annie Finch! Contributors Gabrielle Bates, Jane Huffman, Jenna Le, and Karen Winn will read excerpts from their work in the issue, with an introduction by Annie Finch; copies of the issue and the readers’ most recent books will be available for purchase and signing after the reading.
About the Readers...
Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), an NPR Best Book of 2023, New York Times Book Review Critic’s Pick, and finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Currently the 2026 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she also works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon, and serves occasionally as visiting faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center, the Tin House Workshops, and the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Believer, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. www.gabriellebat.es
Jane Huffman is the author of Public Abstract (American Poetry Review, 2023), winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is a doctoral student in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Her poems have appeared in the Nation, the Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.
Jenna Le (jennalewriting.com) is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011), A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books, 2018), and Manatee Lagoon (Acre Books, 2022). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in AGNI, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. A daughter of Vietnamese refugees, she has a BA in math and an MD and works as a physician and educator in New York City.
Karen Winn is the Boston-based author of The Society (Dutton, 2026) and Our Little World (Dutton, 2022). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Hippocampus, Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, and elsewhere. Prior to becoming an author, she was a nurse and nurse practitioner.
Food & Beverage will be available for purchase through the cafe. Seating begins at 5:30pm.
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