The Summer/Fall 1982 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.
Table of Contents
FICTION
"Ollie, Oh...," by Carolyn Chute
"The Dignity of Life," by Carol Bly
"Virginie Hears a Confession," by John Hawkes
"A Small, Good Thing," by Raymond Carver
POETRY
Richard Wilbur
Cynthia Huntington
Wesley McNair
W. D. Snodgrass
Mary Oliver
David R. Young
Jonathan Galassi
Philip Booth
Philip Levine
Robert Dana
Richard Tillinghast
Louis Simpson
David Ray
Bradford Morrow
Robley Wilson
James Laughlin
Robert Creeley
Rita Dove
Sue Owen
Robert Pack
Dick Higgins
Howard Norman
Robert Ober
Robert Kinsley
Robert Louthan
Hayden Carruth
Gibbons Ruark
Michael Reck
Linda Gregg
Alice Adelmen Lowenstein
John Ridland
Patricia Goedicke
Joe-Anne McLaughlin
William H. Matchett
Caroline Finkelstein
Fanny Howe
Tom Clark
Hilary Russell
Sandford Lyne
Tommy Neil Tucker
Ellery Akers
Robert Mazzocco
Wendell Berry
Russell Edson
Charles Simic
Joyce Peseroff
Jane Kenyon
Gregory Orr
Robert Bly
Olav N. Hauge
Robert Bly
Alan Williamson
X. J. Kennedy
Jim Hejna
Ruth Stone
Bob Arnold
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Wendy Salinger
DRAMA
Excerpt from "Dogcatcher: a play in one act," by Wendy Salinger