The Spring 1984 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Seamus Heaney. 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
Seamus Heaney
NONFICTION
"The Poet in an Age of Distraction," by Sven Birkerts
POETRY
William Aarnes
Stephen Ajay
Alexander Albertus
Christopher Benfey
Don Bogen
George Bogin
Philip Booth
Marianne Boruch
Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Vincent Buckley
Hayden Carruth
Cherry Conrad
Robert Crumm
Susan Donnelly
Rita Dove
John Drury
K. E. Duffin
Stephen Dunn
Kathy Fagan
Robert Farnsworth
Cheri Fein
Frederick Feirstein
Brendan Galvin
Barry Goldensohn
Laurence Goldstein
J. B. Goodenough
Eamon Grennan
Marilyn Hacker
Mark Halliday
Thomas Heffernan
Fanny Howe
Colette Inez
Joyce James
Shirley Kaufman
George Lee
Miriam Levine
Osip Mandelstam
Robert Tracy
Debbie LeMieux
Philip Mahony
David McKain
Roberta Metz Swann
Michael Milburn
Roger Mitchell
Edward Morin
Richard Moore
Erika Mumford
Debra Nystrom
Harvey Oxenhorn
Anne Pitkin
Gibbons Ruark
Terry Savoie
James Schevill
Nancy Schoenberger
Tamara Schulz-Kivi
Macklin Smith
Kathleen Spivack
Sue Standing
Stephanie Strickland
Jason Sommer
Elizabeth Spires
Robyn Supraner
Brian Swann
Deborah Tall
John Unterecker
Marisella L. Veiga
Michael Waters
Stephen Watts
J. O. Wayne
David Weiss
Emily Wheeler
