Ploughshares Winter 2009-10 Guest-Edited by Tony Hoagland

The Winter 2009-10 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Tony Hoagland. This issue of Ploughshares features fiction from Linda Bamber, Eddie Lewis, Cara Olexa, Nic Pizzolatto, David MacLean, Rebecca Makkai, and John Weir, as well as poetry from Howard Altmann, James Arthur, L. S. Asekoff, and others. The volume also includes a profile of Hoagland, an introduction by Hoagland, as well as book reviews and more.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Tony Hoagland

FICTION
Linda Bamber, "Tempo and Duration"
Eddie Lewis, "Remembering Ray Borque"
David Stuart MacLean, "The Answer to the Riddle Is Me"
Rebecca Makkai, "Painted Ocean, Painted Ship"
Cara Olexa, "Flood Story"
Nic Pizzolatto, "Graves of Light"
John Weir, "Foolish Man Blues"

POETRY by
Howard Altmann
James Arthur
L. S. Asekoff
Christian Barter
David Blair
Adrian Blevins
Karen Brennan
Lee Briccetti
Stephanie Brown
Julie Bruck
Jordan Davis
Matthew Dickman
Stephen Dobyns
Farrah Field
Emily Fragos
Christine Garren
Jeffrey Greene
Kelle Groom
Jennifer Grotz
Mark Halliday
Henry Hart
K. A. Hays
Lila Hegnauer
John Hodgen
Peter B. Hyland
Garret Keizer
David Keplinger
Daniel J. Langton
Kathryn Maris
Sharona Ben-Tov Muir
Miho Nonaka
Benjamin Paloff
Lucia Perillo
Alicia Jo Rabins
Liam Rector
Elizabeth Scanlon
Katherine Smith
Elizabeth Smither
Lisa Russ Spaar
Kathryn Starbuck
Marc J. Straus
Bradford Gray Telford
John Weir
Scott Withiam

ABOUT TONY HOAGLAND
A Profile by Jennifer Grotz

POSTSCRIPTS

BOOKSHELF
Chip Cheek reviews "Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories," by Maile Meloy
Sherrie Flick reviews "The New Valley," by Josh Weil
John Skoyles reviews "The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov," edited by Mira Schor
Scott Stanfield reviews "Clampdown," by Jennifer Maxley
Joshua Weiner reviews "Selected Poems of Fulke Greville," edited by Thom Gunn