Ploughshares Spring 2000 Guest-Edited by Paul Muldoon

The Spring 2000 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Paul Muldoon. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Paul Muldoon

FICTION

"Quality Time," by Russell Banks
"Broth of Heaven," by Lan Samantha Chang
"Labors of the Heart," by Claire David
"Balkan Journal, 1944," by Edmund Keeley
"Cleanness," by James Lasdun
"A Testicular Self-Examination," by Kevin MxIlvoy
"Mondo Zapruder," by Pedro Ponce
"A Picture of Time" and "Wild Life" by Lynne Tillman
Excerpt from The Married Man by Edmund White
"The Story of the Deep Dark," by Julia Whitty

DRAMA
"The Playwright and the Blond Actress," by Joyce Carol Oates

POETRY

William Allen
Nin Andrews
Mary Jo Bang
Cathy Bowman
Christopher Cahill
Tina Chang
Killarney Clary
Steven Cramer
John D'Agata
Meredith Drum
David Francis
Daisy Fried
Douglas Goetsch
Stuart Greenhouse
John Hoppenthaler
Cynthia Huntington
Troy Jollimore
Yusef Komunyakaa
Nicole Krauss
Melissa Kwasny
Timothy Liu
Cate Marvin
Walt McDonald
Melissa Monroe
Emily Moore
Toni Morrison
Robert Nazarene
Salvatore Quasimodo
James RIchardson
Catie Rosemurgy
J. Allyn ROsser
Stephen Sandy
Lisa Sewell
Faith Shearin
Laurie Sheck
Reginald Shepherd
Terese Svoboda
Bill Sweeney
Paula Tatarunis
Alpay Ulku
Nance Van Winckel
A.J. Verdelle
Liz Waldner
Renée & Theodore Weiss
Susan Wheeler
C. K. Williams
Theodore Worozbyt

EDITOR PROFILE
Sven Birkerts