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Ploughshares Fall 2011 Guest-Edited by DeWitt Henry

Ploughshares Fall 2011 Guest-Edited by DeWitt Henry

by Sue Miller, DeWitt Henry and Alice Hoffman
Publication Date: 20/11/2012
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The Fall 2011 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by DeWitt Henry. This special 40th anniversary issue edited by Ploughshares co-founder DeWitt Henry features new work from former guest editors like Alice Hoffman, Sue Miller, and Maxine Kumin; an interview with Richard Yates from the archives; and poems and stories from emerging writers like James Scott and Laura van den Berg, introduced by prominent authors including James Alan McPherson and Elizabeth Spires.


Full Table of Contents


INTRODUCTION

DeWitt Henry


EDITOR PROFILE

by Jack Smith


FICTION


"Apples," by Nickolas Butler (Intro. by James A. McPherson)

"Treasure," by Alice Hoffman

"from Burning Summer," by Sue Miller

"Tag Sale," by Jay Neugeboren

"from Next Life Might Be Kinder," by Howard Norman

"Downstream," by James Scott (Intro. by Margot Livesey)

"I Looked For You, I Called Your Name," by Laura van den Berg (Intro. by Don Lee)

"The Sinner," by Ellen Wilbur


NONFICTION


"Catcher's Hang," by Susan Falco (Intro. by Dan Wakefield)

"Dojo," by Jennifer Rose

"Turning Points," by Richard Tillinghast


POETRY


Bruce Bennett: "Life's What You Make It" and "The Thing's Impossible"

B. H. Fairchild: "The Game" and "A House"

Marilyn Hacker: "Tahrir"

Lindsay Stuart Hill: "The Widow and the Pinecone" and "Nanquan Kills a Cat" (Intro. by Elizabeth Spires)

Jane Hirshfield: "Hamper," "In a Kitchen Where Mushrooms Were Washed," and "Mop Without Stick"

Maxine Kumin: "Ancient History in The Eye Center" and "Either Or"

Jynne Dilling Martin: "Dropped Things Are Bound to Sink" (Intro. by Ellen Bryant Voigt)

Gail Mazur: "Late Summer"

Barbara Perez: "Bottle" (Intro. by Joyce Peseroff)

Joyce Peseroff: "Two Ways to Play Shylock," "Your First Motherless Day," and "Margin of Error"

Lloyd Schwartz: "Goldring"

Jane Shore: "Fortune Cookies" and "Pickwick"

Gary Soto: "What You Might Expect" and "Millennium Bridge"

Elizabeth Spires: "A Life" and "Constructing a Religion"

Richard Tillinghast: "Early Rising"

Alan Williamson: "Sleep"


MISC.


Why I Play Golf: A Plan B Essay by Ron Hansen


FROM THE ARCHIVES


An Interview with Richard Yates: DeWitt Henry and Geoffrey Clark


BOOKSHELF


Akshay Ahuja reviews: The Other Side of the Mirror: An American Travels Through Syria, by Brooke Allen

Graham Foust reviews: The Vocation of Poetry: Essays, by Durs Grunbein

Tony Hoagland reviews: Red Clay Weather: Poems, by Reginald Shepherd

Dinah Lenney reviews: Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew, by Suzanne Berne

ISBN:
9781933058238
9781933058238
Category:
Classic fiction
Publication Date:
20-11-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ploughshares/Emerson
Sue Miller

Sue Miller was born in Chicago in 1943. She is the bestselling author of ten previous novels including The Good Mother, The Distinguished Guest, the Oprah Book Club selection While I Was Gone, Lost in the Forest, the Richard & Judy choice The Senator's Wife, The Lake Shore Limited and the acclaimed memoir The Story of My Father.

Sue Miller lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

DeWitt Henry

DeWitt Henry is an American poet and novelist. He was the founding editor of Ploughshares literary magazine. His books include The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts (winner in the US of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel) and a trilogy in memoir including Sweet Dreams: A Family History (Hidden River, 2011) Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, and Meditations (Red Hen, 2008), and Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays (MadHat), which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, 2022; and a collection of notes and essays, Sweet Marjoram (MadHat 2018).

He has also edited several anthologies, including Fathering Daughters and Sorrow’s Company (both from Beacon Press). His first poetry collection, Restless for Words: Poems, will appear in late 2022 from Finishing Line Press. His work on Ploughshares was recognized by a Massachusetts Commonwealth Awards in the Arts, Humanities, and Interpretive Sciences in 1993. He has also received the Third Annual Editors Book Award from Pushcart Press and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. He is Professor Emeritus at Emerson College and serves as a contributing editor to both Woven Tale Press and Solstice magazines.

Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The Marriage of Opposites, Practical Magic, The Red Garden, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Dovekeepers. She lives near Boston.

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