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The Winter 1999-00 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Madison Smartt Bell & Elizabeth Spires. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Madison Smartt Bell
Elizabeth Spires

FICTION

"Black Elvis," by Geoffrey Becker
"The Mourning Party," by Carolyn Cooke
"Happy Birthday" and "White Fang" by Walt Foreman
"False Confessions," by Goerge Garrett
"Israel," by Mary-Beth Hughes
"Engaging Diane," by Bethalee Jones
"Gray Girl," by Cynthia Kadohata"
"Other People's Mothers," by Erika Krouse
"Stop Breaking Down," by John McManus
"Centepides on Skates," by John Robinson

POETRY

Penelope Austin
Aliki Barnstone
Bruce Beasley
John Bensko
Dinah Berland
A. V. Christie
Michael Collier
Wyn Cooper
Theodore Deppe
Timothy Donnelly
Carol Frost
Frank X. Gaspar
Brian Glasner
Greg Glazner
Loren Graham
Laurie Greer
Allen Grossman
Jeffrey Harrison
William Heyen
Cynthia Huntington
JonathanDavid Jackson
Josephine Jacobsen
Bethalee Jones
Samara Kanegis
Maxine Kumin
David Lehman
Phillis Levin Kathy Mangan
Cleopatra Mathis
Jonathan Musgrove
D. Nurkse
Sue Owen
Patrick Phillips
Stanley Plumly
Lia Pirpura
Jane Shore
Christine Steward
Susan Stewart
Virgil Suarez
Jennifer Tseng
Michael Tyrell
Belle Waring
Michael Waters
Charles Harper Webb
Mark Wunderlich
C. Dale Young
Andrew Zawacki

EDITOR PROFILES
Wyn Cooper
A. V. Christie

POSTSCRIPTS
Zacharis Award Winner Elizabeth Gilbert

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