Ploughshares Fall 2001 Guest

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The Fall 2001 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Donald Hall. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This double issue, guest-edited by poet Donald Hall, marks the 30th anniversary of Ploughshares. In addition to reflections from writers and editors involved with the magazine, the issue contains poetry by modern masters like Wendell Berry, Frank Bidart, Robert Bly, Rita Dove, Jeffrey Harrison, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, and many others. In the Introduction, after writing about how the "fierce certitude" of youthful taste has left him, Hall writes that "I am delighted that these writers--friends and strangers, some of whom are five decades younger than I am--have allowed me to print their brilliant work."

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Donald Hall

EDITOR PROFILE
Liam Rector

FICTION

"Flamingo," by Elizabeth Kemper French
"Kickers," "The Corn Bin," and "Winter Chores," by Jim Heynen
"In Case We're Separated," by Alice Mattison
"Lunch at the Blacksmith," by Cornelia Nixon
"Glass House," by Maura Stanton
"Before This Day There Were Many Days," by Ann Joslin Williams

NONFICTION

"The Land," by Sarah Silbert

POETRY

David Barber
April Bernard
Wendell Berry
Frank Bidart
George Bilgere
Robert Bly
Don Bogen
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Amy Bottke
Hayden Carruth
Tom Clark
Victoria Clausi
Mark Conway
Justine Cook
Mary Crow
Nicole Cuddeback
Mary Doty
Rita Dove
Martin Espada
Angie Estes
Robert Farnsworth
Caroline Finkelstein
Terri Ford
Chris Forhan
Marilyn Hacker
Jeffrey Harrison
Jane Hirshfield
Cynthia Huntington
Colette Inez
Katia Kapovich
Meg Kearney
X. J. Kennedy
Maxine Kumin
Laurie Lamon
David Lehman
Philip Levine
Timothy Liu
Michael Longley
Wesley McNair
Jean Monahan
Paul Muldoon
Joyce Carol Oates
Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Sharon Olds
Gregory Orr
Joyce Peseroff
Donald Platt
Liam Rector
Lee Ann Roripaugh
Gibbons Ruark
Stephen Sandy
Rebecca Seiferle
Neil Shepard
Reginald Shepherd
Taije Silverman
Louis Simpson
John Smelcer
Bruce Smith
W. D. Snodgrass
Elizabeth Spires
Maura Stanton
Gerald Stern
Mark Strand
Brian Swann
Deborah Tall
Susan Terris
Alpay Ulku
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Rebecca Wee
Jonah Winter
Charles Wright

REFLECTIONS ON PLOUGHSHARES

DeWitt Henry, Ann Beattie, Anne Bernays, Rosellen Brown, Madeline DeFrees, Lorrie Goldensohn, David Gullette, Fanny Howe, Maxine Kumin, Don Lee, Philip Levine, Jay Neugeboren, Joyce Peseroff, James Randall, Lloyd Schwartz, Fred Viebahn, Dan Wakefield

EDITORS' SHELF