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
Solve a murder, save her mother, and stop the apocalypse? No problem. She has a foul-mouthed troll on her side. For Austin homicide detective Leira Berens, happy is running down bad guys and solving crimes. And she’s damn good at it. Which is why when the Light Elf prince is murdered, the king breaks a centuries old treaty and crosses between worlds to seek her help. Wait a min...
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