Ploughshares Winter 1996-97 Guest-Edited by Robert Boswell and Ellen Bryant Voigt

by Robert Boswell (Editor), Ellen Bryant Voigt, Alice Jones, Thomas Lux, Joyce Peseroff

Overview

The Winter 1996-97 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Robert Boswell & Ellen Bryant Voigt. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Robert Boswell

EDITOR PROFILES
Don Lee
Tony Hoagland

FICTION
"The Forest" by Andrea Barrett
"Medicine," by Christopher McIlroy
"Green House," by Kevin McIlvoy
"Skeleton," by Steven Schwartz
"Why We're Here," by Elizabeth Searle
"Those Poor Devils" by Kathleene West

POETRY
Dick Allen
Claudia Emerson Andrews
Sally Ball
Dinah Berland
Steven Cramer
Chard deNiord
Carl Dennis
Stuart Dischell
Stephen Dobyns
Lynn Emanuel
Caroline Finkelstein
Carol Frost
Greg Grummer
Donald Hall
Paul Jenkins
Alice Jones
Suji Kwock Kim
Laurie Kutchins
Thomas Lux
Campbell McGrath
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Steve Orlen
Gregory Orr
Lucia Perillo
Joyce Peseroff
Clenn Reed
Martha Rhodes
Kenneth Rosen
Alan Shapiro
Faith Shearin
Gary Short
Ralph Sneeden
Lisa Russ Spaar
Nance Van Winckel
Ellen Doré Watson
Renate Wood
Jody A. Zorgdrager

POSTSCRIPTS
Don Lee, "Zacharis Award Winner Kevin Young"

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148561200
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	12/01/1996
Series:	Ploughshares , #224
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	246
File size:	852 KB

About the Author

Robert Boswell is the author of five novels (Century's Son, American Owned Love, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, Crooked Hearts), two story collections (Living to Be 100, Dancing in the Movies), and one play (Tongues). He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson.

Ellen Bryant Voigt is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Shadow of Heaven, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002. Her other books include Kyrie (1995); Two Trees (1992); The Lotus Flowers (1987); The Forces of Plenty (1983); and Claiming Kin (1976). She has also published a collection of craft essays entitled, The Flexible Lyric (2001).
Voigt has won numerous awards and honors including grants from the Vermont Council of the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pushcart Prize, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Voigt served as the Vermont State Poet for a term of four years until 2003, when she was elected Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Voigt developed the nation's first low-residency M.F.A writing program at Goddard College in 1976, and since 1981 has taught in the M.F.A. program for creative writing at Warren Wilson College. She resides in Cabot, Vermont.