Ploughshares Spring 2009

by Eleanor Wilner (Editor)

Overview

The Spring 2009 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Eleanor Wilner. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This issue, edited by prize-winning poet Eleanor Wilner, author of The Girl with Bees in Her Hair, features new work from Maxine Kumin, Jess Row, Terrance Hayes, Alicia Ostriker, Ilya Kaminsky, and many other distinguished poets and writers.

In her Introduction, Wilner writes, “I love poets who bring us to our proper size. Think about taking a picture of a mile-high waterfall, and about that little human you need in the shot to suggest the magnitude caught in the image—the tiny person is the scale factor. It isn’t that true scale diminishes the human, but rather that it celebrates our luck to be in the picture at all—such wonders!”

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Eleanor Wilner

EDITOR PROFILE
by Christine Casson

FICTION

"Leaving Women," by Andria Nacina Cole
"Baby R.," by C. E. Poverman
"Lives of the Saints," by Jess Row
"Hidden Works," by Sasha Troyan

POETRY by

Meena Alexander
Sinan Antoon
Sujata Bhatt
Jaswinder Bolina
Marianne Boruch
Kevin Clark
Carolyn Creedon
Carl Dennis
Patrick Donnelly
Patricia Fargnoli
Daisy Fried
Diane Gilliam
Annie Guthrie
Marilyn Hacker
Jim Hagan
Terrance Hayes
Ilya Kaminsky
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Mark Kraushaar
Maxine Kumin
Lynn Levin
Maurice Manning
Constance Merritt
Nadine Sabra Meyer
Muriel Nelson
Jacqueline Osherow
Alicia Ostriker
Marcia Pelletiere
Julia Randall
J. Allyn Rosser
Tim Seibles
Rebecca Seiferle
Taije Silverman
Bruce Snider
Heidy Steidlmayer
Francine Sterle
Terese Svoboda
Elaine Terranova
Alpay Ulku


BOOKSHELF

Kate Flaherty reviews: Exiles: A Novel, by Ron Hansen

David James Poissant reviews: Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, an anthology edited by Bret Anthony Johnson

Michael Morse reviews: The Earth in the Attic: Poems, by Fady Joudah

William Cloonan discusses: J.-M. G. Le Clézio and the Nobel Prize

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014972772
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Series:	Ploughshares , #351
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	539 KB

About the Author

In 1937, Eleanor Wilner (née Rand) was born in Ohio and holds an interdepartmental PhD from Johns Hopkins University.

She has published several collections of poetry, including: Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010); The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon, 2004); Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (1998); and Otherwise (University of Chicago, 1993).

Her other works include a verse translation of Euripides's Medea (Penn Greek Series, 1998); and a book on visionary imagination, Gathering the Winds (Johns Hopkins Press, 1975). Her work has appeared in over thirty anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1990 and The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition).

About Wilner's work, the poet Tony Hoagland has said, "Wilner . . . has a deep and heroic belief in the transformative power of language and myth. She paddles her surfboard outside the reef where most poets stop; she rides the big waves."

Wilner has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juniper Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes.

Former editor of The American Poetry Review, she is currently an Advisory Editor of Calyx. She has taught, most recently, at the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and Smith College. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Philadelphia.