The Winter 2003-04 issue of Ploughshares, edited by David Daniel and Don Lee. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Edited by award-winning poet David Daniel (Seven-Star Bird) and novelist Don Lee (Yellow, Country of Origin, Every Now and Then) , this issue features new works from Alicia L. Conroy, Jay Leeming, and Brittani Sonnenberg. This specially themed Emerging Writers issue presents young, unpublished writers recommended by their published mentors, teachers, and peers. Though not featured in the issue, Daniel observes that the nominators' letters of endorsement "provided a fascinating glimpse of their tastes, their relation to the world of letters, and above all, their passion for unheralded work," a passion similarly found in the works featured in the of issue.

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
David Daniel & Don Lee

FICTION

"What Remains," by Katherine Bell
"Mud-Colored Beauties of the Plains," by Alicia L. Conroy
"Where Beautiful Ladies Dance for You," by Patrick Michael Finn
"Childhood," by Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski
"The Taste of Penny," by Jeff Parker
"Tierney's Gourmet," by Brittani Sonnenberg
"The Pantyhose Man," by Rebecca Soppe
"The Quarrel," by Kris Vervaecke
"Tuscaloose," by Ted Weesner, Jr.
"Blowing Up on the Spot," by Kevin Wilson

POETRY

Nuar Alsadir
Allison Benis
David Blair
Jaswinder Bolina
Jennifer Boyden
Susan Browne
Darrell Burton
John Casteen
Mark Conway
Rachel DeWoskin
Julie Funderburk
Dobby Gibson
Kathleen Graber
Todd Hearon
James Heflin
Christopher Hennessy
Angie Hogan
Rodney Jack
Tanya Larkin
Jay Leeming
Teresa Leo
Sarah Maclay
Kathryn Maris
Mark M. Martin
Ted Mathys
Jill McDonough
Emily Moore
Michael Morse
Kathy Nilsson
Jeffrey Oethybridge
Stephanie Pippin
Christina Pugh
Sadaf Qureshi
Minal K. Singh
Pireeni Sundaralingam
Pauline Uchmanowich
Alissa Valles
Sharmila Voorakkara
Nicole Walker
Beth Woodcome

POSTSCRIPTS
Zacharis Award Winner Maile Meloy