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Tricks and things that help to concentrate in any environment
Each of us has faced a situation where, for some reason, to get together and do not get distracted does not go out. It interferes with all this: starting from not breaking the pencil in time and finishing with the repair of neighbors from the bottom. The child of my neighbors from above, for example, wants to become a great musician, and therefore plays the pipe every morning and evening, trying to make my training sessions ineffective (but he almost fails). In addition, many have to snatch time and engage in breaks between lessons / couples, while traveling on public transport and other conditions that do not have access to study.
Headphones
Yes, I remember very well that literally in the last article I wrote that music during study distracts. However, choosing between the same pipe or noisy schoolchildren and music, I prefer to choose the latter. By the way, in addition to songs, you can include a special recording of white noise. To put it simply, white noise is something like radio noise or the sound of falling water. They can perfectly muffle extraneous sounds, without being distracted at all.
But if someone really likes absolute silence, then you can always pick up ear plugs.
Food
Try to find more time for study, do not forget to eat, okay? First, your hungry stomach will always try to remind you of the problem with all sorts of sounds, and secondly, without a lack of food, and therefore energy for work, the brain will simply refuse to cooperate with you. Believe me, breakfast / lunch / dinner - this is what you should spend time in the first place.
The equipped workplace
This clause refers mainly to studying at home or in a hostel, but in general and there it is sometimes difficult enough to concentrate due to circumstances. In any case, a beautiful workplace where all the necessary things are distributed neatly will only help the owner. Speaking of a well-equipped workplace, I do not mean "ideal" sets for photos. It's enough just to give each type of stationery a certain place and put a few motivating quotes or a list of your goals.
Planning
Nothing can do without it. Of course, do not paint every minute of your time, but to not worry about the lack of time for a certain type of activity, it is necessary to find the right place and time for its implementation. You can learn new words in a foreign language in a transport where writing an essay will be very problematic, but with a little homework it's easier to understand right on the spot: both saving time and the ability to clarify confusing moments for classmates or teachers.
Discarding gadgets
A very obvious thing, which is still quite difficult to accomplish. In order not to be tempted, you should check in advance all the "vital" for you social networks and mail and temporarily turn off the sound notification. By the way, according to statistics, we begin to get distracted more often on the phone, even if it just lies next to the table. So it would be nice in this case also to remove the gadget in a backpack or shelf.
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The new editor in chief of Ploughshares discusses her vision for expanding the journal’s digital format and its community.
Emerson College recently named Jenny Molberg editor in chief of Ploughshares, the celebrated quarterly journal that has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, for more than fifty years. Molberg, the author of the poetry collection The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023), joins Ploughshares after a decade at the University of Central Missouri, where she served as editor in chief of Pleiades and director of Pleiades Press while teaching English and creative writing. In her new appointment, Molberg will both edit Ploughshares and work as a professor of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College. Molberg spoke about her plans for the journal and her belief that literature can heal the world.
Jenny Molberg was recently named editor in chief of Ploughshares. (Credit: Jonny Ulasien)
What excites you about your new role?
Ploughshares has an amazing staff and an editorial associate program with the MFA students. I am also spearheading an undergrad internship, which hasn’t existed before. I’m really excited to think about who the guest editors will be, to mentor graduate students, to work with all women in leadership [at Emerson] who champion Ploughshares’ place in the literary dialogue and are excited about what else can happen. Also, the city of Boston and the allure of a vibrant arts community.
What is the essence of Ploughshares that you want to preserve?
In the Old Testament story, [the prophet Isaiah declares people will] hammer their swords into ploughshares. That gesture of cultivation rather than destruction is embodied in the rich history of Ploughshares and very specifically in the Emerging Writer’s Contest. The journal is so cognizant of putting established writers who we love and admire next to exciting emerging writers and treating them with equal enthusiasm. I will be only the fourth editor in fifty-four years, which shows me that these people who came before me really loved it. And it shows in the work. I want to be sure I’m doing it justice.
What changes do you hope to make?
I want to name a new fiction editor, and I hope to broaden the editorial team. Community is so integral to our work in literary publishing, and this is not any sort of criticism because I think this happens with a lot of literary magazines that are so respected, but the literary community at large becomes the community we are focusing on. I want to think about how the journal can be better integrated into Emerson and into Boston, including focusing on Boston-area visual artists on the covers of Ploughshares. Something I started at AWP with Pleiades [alongside other journals] is a project called Words Matter. We had our contributors go to local high schools and teach their own poems or a poem they admired. Then those high school students taught middle schoolers a poem. This project is a way to impact the community positively. I’d like the editorial associates at Ploughshares to go out into the community and teach a generative workshop. Let’s start conversations with the incredible digitized archive—for example, a poem from the Carolyn Forché issue in conversation with one from the recent issue. I want to slow down and have these editorial associates consider: What is our history? Why does it matter? [Those conversations] could be a podcast or whatever the grad students want to do, for example, TikTok or Instagram. [The digital-first series] Ploughshares Solos has been a space for publishing longer prose. Could we publish some visual poetry or long poetry sequences? I love the print journal, but I think the space that the online format can offer is exciting.
What qualities do you bring to the job?
As a poet, teacher, and editor I am really dedicated to writing that witnesses, writing that engages with issues that have historically been silenced and reintroduces them to the conversation. For my latest book I wrote a poem about a neighbor of mine who was in her eighties and the first victim of this serial killer in Baton Rouge. I wanted to honor her and think about violence and our cultural obsession with violence. Her niece wrote to me to say, “I Googled my aunt, and everything that always comes up is her death, but then I came across your poem.” That made me cry because this work that we do to reframe the conversations around violence or war or silencing actually matters. As a teacher I’m thinking about what literature will speak to my students right now, knowing the struggles that they’re encountering and the spaces their voices want to fill.
You wrote in your introductory letter, “I think of great writing as advocacy for conditions of peace.” Can you explain?
The author bell hooks said great literature bears witness to struggles of domination, both in the family realm and in the global realm. I don’t mean that every poem or essay has to take something global to task, but that it grapples with some injustice. Most great writing does that. hooks said witnessing can also be healing. When you are writing about something difficult or scary and someone approaches you and says, “Me too,” that’s creating conditions of peace. It demystifies and disempowers oppression.
What would a world where lit mags fulfilled their greatest potential look like?
At our AWP [Words Matter] event, we’d all been at the high school the day before, and we’d all been weeping over the students’ work, so there was this emotional charge. Our contributor reading started with Kim Addonizio playing a Train song on the harmonica. Everyone was hooting and hollering. We had a DJ, and everybody stormed the stage, and then outside we had a taco truck, so after dancing we had tacos. This—this is what it would look like. Just to celebrate the work of writers.
Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want (University of Iowa Press, 2022), which received the Iowa Poetry Prize, and a coeditor of the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (University of Georgia Press, 2022). She lives in Denver with her family.
From the September/October 2025 issue of
Poets & Writers Magazine
