Ploughshares Winter 1986 Guest-Edited by Madeline DeFrees and Tess Gallagher

by Madeline Defrees (Editor), Tess Gallagher, David Graham, Ann Beattie, James Tate

Overview

The Winter 1986 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Madeline DeFrees & Tess Gallagher. 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
"Honey," by Ann Beattie
"Everyday Disorders," by Francine Prose
"The New Teacher," by James Tate
"The Visit," by James Tate
"Make-up," by Jamie Diamond
"Lonnie Tishman," by Mona Simpson
"The Green Bird," by Hans Ostrom

NONFICTION
Madeline DeFrees & Tess Gallagher, "The Double Thread"

POETRY
Laura Jensen
Caroline Bock
David Graham
Joan Swift
Robin Becker
Jane Mead
Zoe Anglesey
Frances Driscoll
Sharon Bryan
Ann Douglas
Dorothy Barresi
Gillian Conoley
Kath Anderson
Drago Stambuk
Morris Bond
Michele Birch
Bobby Anderson
Peter Cooley
Virginia Leinart
Ralph Salisbury
Tony Hoagland
John Witte
Karen Locke
Harold Schweizer
Jill Gonet
Diane Glancy
Rita Kiefer
Thomas Emery
Lucia Perillo
Kenneth Gangemi
Susan Powell
David Henderson
Mary Susannah Robbins
Lex Runciman
Chris Kennedy
Philip Booth
Ron Vandorfer
Susan Landgraf
Rod Kessler
Erika Mumford
Carol Jane Bangs
Alice Derry
Deb Casey
Michael Burkard

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148711612
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	12/01/1986
Series:	Ploughshares , #124
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	225
File size:	542 KB

About the Author

Madeline Defrees is the author of seven poetry collections, including the newest title, Blue Dusk: New & Selected Poems, 1951-2001, which won a Washington Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Price for 2002 . She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her poems have recently appeared in Urban Nature, Visiting Emily, The Ohio Review, and The Extraordinary Tide.

Tess Gallagher is a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. Her honors include a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, two National Endowment of the Arts Awards, the Maxine Cushing Gray Foundation Award, and the Elliston Award for "best book of poetry published by a small press" for the collection, Instructions to the Double (1976). In 1984, she published the collection, Willingly, which consists of poems written to and about her third husband, author Raymond Carver, who died in 1988. Her recent collections include At the Owl Woman Saloon (Simon & Schuster, 1999), My Black Horse: New and Selected Poems (1995, Bloodaxe Books), Owl-Spirit Dwelling (1994) and Moon Crossing Bridge (1992). Her latest endeavor, Call If You Need Me (Vintage, 2001), introduces newly discovered stories by Carver. Gallagher holds an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Whitman College and has taught at St. Lawrence University; Kirkland College; University of Montana, Missoula; University of Arizona, Tucson; Syracuse University; and Willamette University.