Ploughshares Spring 2006 Guest-Edited by Kevin Young

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The Spring 2006 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Kevin Young. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Guest-edited by noted poet Kevin Young, the Spring 2006 issue of Ploughshares contains prose and poetry by acclaimed authors including Barry Gifford, Mary Gordon, Campbell McGrath, D. Nurkse, and Natasha Trethewey. In his Introduction to the issue, Kevin Young ruminates about the Plough & Stars, the bar where the journal was founded, a place where, "shelter in the darkness, a few rumors, and something to keep us cool" created the perfect "recipe for art." Young asserts that it is this recipe that denotes the connection between the authors' respective works, beyond any restrictive school of thought. "These poems and stories," he writes, "possess a sense of electricity and necessity that courses through the best of our art."

INTRODUCTION
Kevin Young

EDITOR PROFILE
Robert Arnold

FICTION

"One Leg," by Barry Gifford
"Eleanor's Music," by Mary Gordon
"Chasing Birds," by Christina Henriquez
"Spectator," by Valerie Laken
"Everyone Looks Better When They're Under Arrest," by Ander Monson
"Oral Histories," by Ghita Schwarz
"Sugar Bowl," by Danzy Senna
"What Will Happen to the Sharma Family," by Samrat Uphadhyay

POETRY

Quan Barry
Edward Bartok-Baratta
Don Bogen
Catherine Bowman
Victoria Chang
Jim Daniels
Kyle G. Dargan
Jeff Fallis
Michele Glazer
Walter Griffin
Kelle Groom
Forrest Hamer
Bob Hicok
Sean Hill
Steven Huff
David Keplinger
Marilyn Krysl
Esther Lee
Ben Lerner
Fred Marchant
Kathryn Maris
Cate Marvin
Campbell McGrath
D. Nurkse
Sue Owen
David Rivard
Catie Rosemurgy
Tim Ross
C. J. Sage
Reginald Shepherd
Taije Silverman
Ed Skoog
Bruce Smith
Charlie Smith
Eleanor Stanford
Heidi Lynn Staples
Julia Story
Elizabeth Tornes
Natasha Trethewey
Jason Waldrop
Dean Young

EDITORS' SHELF