Ploughshares Winter 2009-10 Guest-Edited by Tony Hoagland

The Winter 2009-10 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Tony Hoagland. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This issue of Ploughshares features selections of poetry and prose by award-winning poet Tony Hoagland. In his introduction, he writes, "Let's just say that my time among the transcendentalists made me fiercely suspicious of easy innocence. And my time among the realists has made me fiercely protective of our right to flight. Thus, the poems and stories gathered here in Ploughshares reflect these two broad bands of human temperament: the skeptical scrutiny and the rapturous updraft."

The issue includes new work from poets including Howard Altmann, Adrian Blevins, Matthew Dickman, Farrah Field, Mark Halliday; with prose by Rebecca Makkai, David Stuart MacLean, and Nic Pizzolatto; book reviews; and a profile of Tony Hoagland.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Tony Hoagland

EDITOR PROFILE
by Jennifer Grotz

PROSE
Linda Mamber, "Tempo and Duration"
Eddie Lewis, "Remembering Ray Bourque"
David Stuart MacLean, "The Answer to the Riddle Is Me"
Rebecca Makkai, "Painted Ocean, Painted Ship"
Cara Olexa, "Flood Story"
Nic Pizzolatto, "Graves of Light"
John Weir, "Foolish Man Blues"

POETRY by

Howard Altmann
James Arthur
L. S. Asekoff
Christian Barter
David Blair
Adrian Blevins
Karen Brennan
Lee Briccetti
Stephanie Brown
Julie Bruck
Jordan Davis
Matthew Dickman
Stephen Dobyns
Farrah Field
Emily Fragos
Christine Garren
Jeffrey Greene
Kelle Groom
Jennifer Grotz
Mark Halliday
Henry Hart
K. A. Hays
Lilah Hegnauer
John Hogden
Peter B. Hyland
Garret Keizer
David Keplinger
Daniel J. Langton
Kathryn Maris
Sharon Ben-Tov Muir
Miho Nonaka
Benjamin Paloff
Lucia Perillo
Alicia Jo Rabins
Liam Rector
Elizabeth Scanlon
Katherine Smith
Elizabeth Smither
Lisa Russ Spaar
Kathryn Starbuck
Marc J. Straus
Bradford Gray Telford
John Weird
Scott Withiam

BOOKSHELF
Chip Cheek reviews: "Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories," by Maile Meloy
Sherrie Flick reviews: "The New Valley: Novellas," by Josh Weil
John Skoyles reviews: "The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov"
Scott Stanfield reviews: "Clampdown," by Jennifer Moxley
Joshua Weiner reviews: "Selected Poems of Fulke Greville"