Ploughshares Winter 2002-03 Guest-Edited by C. D. Wright

The Winter 2002-03 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by C.D. Wright. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Edited by renowned poet C.D. Wright (Deepstep Come Shining, Tremble), this issue features new works from Colette Inez, Dorothea Tanning, Liz Waldner, Ben Lerner, Jennifer Martenson, Richard Chetwynd, and Dorothea Tanning. With allusions and quotations from both Henry Miller and the poets and writers of the issue, Wright professes curating the issue based on the fact that "the language these writers are speaking constitutes itself as a protective shield against an epidemic mental blackout and outbreaks of frantic futilitarianism," and that "art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind."

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
C. D. Wright

FICTION

"Lightning Over the Lake," by Ethan Hauser
"Dear Laird Hunt, Author of The Impossibly," by Laird Hunt
"Before Long," by Valerie Laken
"The Stamp," by Josip Novakovich
"Tripped Oasis," by Meredith Steinbach
"World Series, 1979," by Mallory Tarses

NONFICTION
"The Uses of Doubt," by Stacey D'Erasmo
"The Book of Jon," by Eleni Sikelianos

DRAMA
Thalia Field, from ULULU (Shrapnel Scenes)

POETRY

Sophie Cabot Black
Star Black
Lisa Bourbeau
Stephen Burt
Richard Chetwynd
Basil Cleveland
Caroline Crumpacker
Chard deNiord
Patrick Donnelly
Dan Featherston
Nick Flynn
Kevin Goodan
Thomas Heise
Brent Hendricks
H. L. Hix
Colette Inez
J. L. Jacobs
Christopher Janke
Ben Lerner
Jennifer Martenson
Rob McLennan
Erin Moure
Elizabeth Scanlon
David Semanki
Bill Sweeney
Dorothea Tanning
Brian Teare
Sam Truitt
Nance Van Winckel
Yiannis Varveris
Liz Waldner

EDITOR PROFILE
Nadia Herman Colburn

POSTSCRIPTS
Zacharis Award Winner Doreen Gildroy