Ploughshares Winter 2008-2009 Guest-Edited by Jean Valentine

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The Winter 2008-2009 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Jean Valentine. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This issue edited by acclaimed poet Jean Valentine features new fiction from Peter Selgin, Kathleen Hill, and Fan Wu; new poems by Jessica Greenbaum, David Guterson, Robert Wrigley, and Jeffrey Skinner; and a book review by Ploughshares Founding Editor DeWitt Henry.

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Jean Valentine

FICTION

"y = mx+b," by Andrew Foster Altschul
"Who Occupies this House," by Kathleen Hill
"The Bones of Love," by Peter Selgin
"Salt," by Megan Staffel
"The Next Thing: A Story with Chorus," by Valerie Vogrin
"The Taste of Life," by Fan Wu

POETRY by

Stephen Ackerman
Dick Allen
Keith Althaus
Beth Bachmann
Hadara Bar-Nadav
Jose Perez Beduya
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Deborah Bogen
Susan Briante
Ashley Capps
Carrie Causey
Adam Clay
Terese Coe
Carolina Conroy
Caroline Conway
Eduardo C. Corral
Daniel Coudriet
Wende Crow
Diana Marie Delgado
Ben Doller
Sandra Doller
Denise Duhamel
Meghan L. Dunn
Tarfia Faizullah
Amanda Field
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Beatrix Gates
Ross Gay
Carmen Gimenez Smith
Jessica Greenbaum
David Guterson
Gail Hanlon
Justin Hardecker
francine j. harris
Suzanne Heyd
Scott Hightower
Ailish Hopper
J. L. Jacobs
Fady Joudah
George Kalogeris
Joshua Kryah
Laurie Lamon
Shara Lessley
Nina Lindsay
Colleen Lookingbill
Alessandra Lynch
Kaisa Ullsvik Miller
Miguel Murphy
Amanda Nadelberg
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Linnea Ogden
Dzvinia Orlowsky
Sue Owen
C. E. Perry
Deborah Poe
Kevin Prufer
Michael Robins
Robyn Sarah
Jeffrey Skinner
Kenneth Steven
L. J. Sysko
Rawdon Tomlinson
Jennifer Tseng
Jonathan Weinert
Simone White
Robert Wrigley
Mande Zecca

EDITOR PROFILE by
Amy Newman

BOOKSHELF

Andrea Cohen reviews: Meaning a Cloud, by J. W. Marshall
DeWitt Henry reviews: The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity, by Richard Todd
Christina Pugh reviews: The Art of the Poetic Line, by James Longenbach
Laura van der Berg reviews: Bang Crunch, by Neil Smith