Ploughshares Spring 1996 Guest-Edited by Marilyn Hacker

The Spring 1996 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Marilyn Hacker. 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
Marilyn Hacker

EDITOR PROFILE
Rafael Campo

FICTION
"Hannah," by Julie Fay
"Comrade Luxemburg and Comrade Gramsci…," by Anne Finger
"Issues of Appropriation," by Catherine Gammon
"City Life," by Mary Gordon
"My Son, My Heart, My Life," by John R. Keene
"The Tea Ceremony," by Edmund White

NONFICTION
"Blacks in the U.," by Toi Derricotte
"Earth Bone Connected to the Spirit Bone," by Adrian C. Louis

POETRY
Elizabeth Alexander
Julia Alvarez
Rane Arroyo
Alison Brackenbury
Rafael Campo
Melissa Cannon
Alfred Corn
Brian Komei Dempster
Tory Dent
Cornelius Eady
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Martin Espada
U. A. Fanthorpe
Diana Garcia
Arthur Gregor
Judith Hall
Yusef Komunyakaa
Maxine Kumin
Khaled Mattawa
Stephen McLeod
Constance Merritt
Alicia Ostriker
Carl Phillips
Minnie Bruce Pratt
Hilda Raz
Boyer Rickel
Aleida Rodríguez
Carol Rumens
Grace Schulman
Maureen Seaton
Reginald Shepherd

POSTSCRIPTS
Don Lee, "Toi Derricotte, Contributor Spotlight"