Ploughshares Winter 1993-94 Guest-Edited by Russell Banks and Chase Twichell

by Russell Banks (Editor), Chase Twichell, Joyce Carol Oates, Fanny Howe, Jessica Hagedorn

Overview

The Winter 1993-94 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Russell Banks & Chase Twichell. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Russell Banks, "Strictly in the Interests of Plausibility"
Chase Twichell, "A Confession"

EDITOR PROFILE
Don Lee
David Daniel

FICTION
"Can You Smell My Sandwich?" by Marianne Wiggins
"Six Pieces," by Fanny Howe
"The Boy from Moogradi and the Woman with the Map to Kolooltopec," by Leon Rooke
"Five Years Ago," by Clarence Major
"The Night Nurse," by Joyce Carol Oates
"Under the Trees on the Hill," by Fielding Dawson
"Little White Sister," by Melanie Rae Thon
"Black: Her Story," by Jessica Hagedorn
"The Rights of Man," by Madison Smartt Bell

POETRY
Jan Richman
Laura Kasischke
Stephen Dobyns
Dana Levin
Tim Seibles
Bruce Weigl
Sharon Olds
Hayden Carruth
Laurie Sheck
Deborah Digges
Cleopatra Mathis
Natasha Sajé
Dean Young
Dannyka Taylor
Susan Snively
Margaret Atwood
Lola Haskins
Stanley Plumly
Adrian C. Louis
Martin Lammon
Mark Jarman
Kenneth Rosen
Jan Selving
Thomas Rabbitt
William Matthews
Ed Ochester
James Bland
Paul Muldoon
Robert Creeley
Campbell McGrath
Reg Saner
Garrett Hongo

POSTSCRIPTS
Don Lee, "Zacharis Award Winner Jessica Treadway"

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148399032
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	12/01/1993
Series:	Ploughshares , #194
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	231
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Russell Banks' novels include Searching for Survivors, Family Life, Hamilton Stark, The New World, The Book of Jamaica, Trailerpark, The Relation of My Imprisonment, Continental Drift, Success Stories, Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Angel on the Roof, The Invisible Stranger (with Arturo Patten), and most recently, The Darling. Two of his novels have been adapted for feature-length films: The Sweet Hereafter (directed by Atom Goyan, winner of the Grand Prix and International Critics Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival) and Affliction (directed by Paul Schrader, starring Nick Nolte, Willem Dafoe, Sissy Spacek, and James Coburn). He was raised in New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts.
Banks has won numerous awards and prizes for his work, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Award, The St. Lawrence Award for Short Fiction, The O. Henry Award, a Best American Short Story Award, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The John Dos Passos Prize. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, University of New Hampshire, New England College, New York University, and Princeton University.
He is married to the poet Chase Twichell, and is the father of four grown daughters.

Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950) is an American poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, which earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). She is the winner of several awards in writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Artists Foundation. Additionally, she has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Field, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, and The Yale Review.

Date of Birth:

March 28, 1940

Place of Birth:

Newton, Massachusetts