 Ploughshares Spring Launch Party!

Ploughshares Spring 2026 Issue Launch Party! Join us to celebrate the release of Ploughshares'&nbsp;Spring 2026 issue,&nbsp;guest-edited by Annie Finch!&nbsp;Contributors&nbsp;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.&nbsp; About the Readers... Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), an NPR&nbsp;Best Book of 2023, New York Times&nbsp;Book Review Critic’s Pick, and finalist for the Washington State Book&nbsp;Award.&nbsp;Currently the 2026 Writer-in-Residence at the University of&nbsp;Tennessee, Knoxville, she also works&nbsp;for Open Books: A Poem Emporium,&nbsp;co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon,&nbsp;and serves occasionally as visiting&nbsp;faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center, the Tin House&nbsp;Workshops, and the Rainier Writing&nbsp;Workshop MFA program. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker,&nbsp;the Believer, Sewanee Review, and&nbsp;elsewhere.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gabriellebat.es/">www.gabriellebat.es</a> Jane Huffman is the author of Public&nbsp;Abstract (American Poetry Review,&nbsp;2023), winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is a doctoral student in English and Literary&nbsp;Arts at the University of Denver. Her&nbsp;poems have appeared in the Nation,&nbsp;the Atlantic, Poetry&nbsp;Magazine, the&nbsp;New Yorker, and elsewhere. She was a&nbsp;2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and&nbsp;Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Jenna Le (<a href="http://jennalewriting.com/">jennalewriting.com</a>) is the&nbsp;author of three full-length poetry&nbsp;collections: Six Rivers (NYQ Books,&nbsp;2011), A History of the Cetacean&nbsp;American Diaspora (Indolent Books,&nbsp;2018), and&nbsp;Manatee Lagoon (Acre&nbsp;Books, 2022). Her poems appear&nbsp;or are forthcoming in AGNI, Verse&nbsp;Daily, and elsewhere. A daughter of&nbsp;Vietnamese refugees, she has a BA in&nbsp;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&nbsp;Our Little World (Dutton, 2022). Her&nbsp;short stories and essays have appeared&nbsp;in Hippocampus, Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, and elsewhere. Prior to becoming&nbsp;an author, she was a nurse and nurse&nbsp;practitioner. Food &amp; Beverage will be available for purchase through the cafe. Seating begins at 5:30pm.

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S11: happening this weekend

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S21: roundups

Our top picks: outdoor dining, free events, spring festivals, best bars, upcoming concerts, museum parties - the latest in and around Boston.  Slug: joyraft-top-picks-best-things-to-do-boston-ma

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S2 (A): top experiences

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Top 20 things to do in Boston

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S3 (A): trending experiences

Discover can’t miss events and things to do in Boston. The most fun, unique and cool events coming to the Boston area this spring and summer.

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S17: interest based

Your guide to everything free in and around Boston. From events, to fairs, to festivals, to outdoors. Joyraft has all the free events happening near you.

100+ free things to do in Boston and beyond

Free things to do in Boston

Free things to do

S19: interest based

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S18: interest based

Where to eat and drink in Boston? Joyraft has Boston’s newest bars, restaurants and specials. Drinks and pre fixe dinner menus. Cambridge & Somerville too.

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Food & drink experiences in Boston

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