Ploughshares Spring 1997 Guest-Edited by Yusef Komunyakaa

The Spring 1997 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Yusef Komunyakaa. 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
Yusef Komunyakaa

EDITOR PROFILE
Susan Conley

FICTION
"Excerpt from In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu" by Tony Ardizzone
"Tiger Frame Glasses" by Carolyn Ferrell
"Mote," by John McCluskey Jr.
"Squash Flowers," by Maura Stanton
"The River Woman's Son," by Melanie Rae Thon

POETRY
William Baer
James Bertolino
Bruce Bond
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Kevin Bowen
Laton Carter
Richard Cecil
Bruce Cohen
Greg Delanty
Toi Derricotte
Mark Doty
Gil José Duran
Martín Espada
George Evans
Sascha Feinstein
Cecile Goding
Jennifer Grotz
Alexander Gurevich

Phil Metres
Marilyn Hacker
Bob Hicok
Colette Inez
Hatif Janabi

Khaled Mattawa
Alice Jones
Allison Joseph
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Priscilla Lee
Larry Levis
Demetria Martinez
Khaled Mattawa
Campbell McGrath
Carl Phillips
Marilene Phipps
Rohan B. Preston
Leroy Quintana
Jan Richman
Jennifer Richter
David Rivard
Lloyd Schwartz
J. D. Scrimgeour
Angela Shannon
Reginald Shepherd
Gerald Stern
Nyugen Quang Thieu

Martha Collins
Richard Tillinghast
Barbara Tran
Jon Tribble
Reetika Vazirani
Charles Harper Webb
David Wojahn
Lisa Yanover
Daisy Zamora

George Evans