Ploughshares Winter 1995-96 Guest-Edited by Tim O'Brien and Mark Strand

The Winter 1995-96 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Tim O'Brien & Mark Strand. 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
Tim O'Brien
Mark Strand

EDITOR PROFILES
Don Lee
Jonathan Aaron

FICTION
"A Creature Out of Palestine," by Lee K. Abbott
"Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?," by Gina Berriault
"The Old Mistakes," by Robert Cohen
"After Rosa Parks," by Janet Desaulniers
"Bowling in the Future," by Edward Hardy
"Easy Lay," by Joyce Carol Oates

NONFICTION
"An Interview with James Merrill," by Heather White

POETRY
Nin Andrews
Jennifer Ashton
Judith Berke
Teresa Cader
Laura Conklin
Wyn Cooper
Kathy Fagan
James Finnegan
Louise Gluck
Jorie Graham
David Greenberg
Linda Gregerson
Allen Grossman
Beth Gylys
Daniel Halpern
Edward Hirsch
Patricia Hooper
Gray Jacobik
David Lehman
Philip Levine
Timothy Liu
Susan Mitchell
Jacqueline Osherow
Stephen Sandy
Charles Simic
Greg Simon
Ronald Wallace
Michael Waters
Michael White
Charles Wright
Oksana Zabuzhko
Lisa Sapinkopf

POSTSCRIPTS
Don Lee, "Zacharis Award Winner Debra Spark"