The Spring 1988 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Maxine Kumin. 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
Maxine Kumin
FICTION
"CV10," by Starkey Flythe Jr.
"The Princess of Calistoga," by Mary Hedin
"Waiting for the Thaw," by Nancy Lord
"Geese," by Joyce Carol Oates
"Rosie," by Annette Williams Jaffee
Excerpt from "Toward a Topography of the Parallel Universe," by Susanna Kaysen
POETRY
John Balaban
Margo Lockwood
Shirley Kaufman
David Ray
Naomi Feigelson Chase
Howard Nemerov
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Patricia Dobler
Celia Gilbert
Philip Booth
Alicia Ostriker
Marilyn Chin
Nadya Aisenberg
Sharon Libera
Suzanne E. Berger
Donald Hall
Eliot Schain
Anne Carpenter
Erica Funkhouser
Marea Gordett
Edison Dupree
Nora Mitchell
Carole S. Oles
Deborah Gottlieb Garrison
Enid Shomer
Tony Hoagland
Caroline Knox
George Starbuck
Robin Becker
Jane Kenyon
Marilyn Hacker
Ruth Whitman
Stephen Corey
Joyce Peseroff
Lewis Turco
Ann Darr
Charles O. Hartman
Teresa Cader
Gail Mazur